Today my grandfather died. He was 90 years old, or so few months shy that you’d be deeply neurotic to say different. He’d been in poor health for a long while now and I believe he was staying alive more out of politeness than anything else. Above all he was a very polite, kind and [...]
Author Archives: Martin
28
Jun
2010
Grandfather
7
Jun
2010
Quickly whitelist sites in Kill-Flash
Is it hypocritical of me to write about a Flash blocker when I’ve spent a good portion of my time the last four years doing Flash? Maybe, but some of the sites out there have ridiculous amounts of intrusive and annoying banner ads, and I just can’t stand having my the fans on my Mac [...]
6
Jun
2010
JAPH – Awesome Code Obfuscation
Every so often I stumble across something that really just leaves me dumbfounded. The only valid response seems to be “… Fascinating!” The latest is this clever JAPH consisting solely of keywords. 1234567891011121314not exp log srand xor s qq qx xor s x x length uc ord and print chr ord for qw q join [...]
4
Jun
2010
The Parallax WordPress theme open sourced
I’ve been meaning to release the theme of this blog for ages, yet I never really got around to finishing it. After a bit of consideration I’ve decided to go for the easy option and just release it “as is”. It’s based on Sandbox and is therefore GPL-licensed. Otherwise I’d release it under my personal [...]
5
Apr
2010
Spring into freedom
Mathilde took her first independent steps at home in the living room less than a week ago, and today was the first day with nice enough weather to warrant a trip to the park in order to give her newfound freedom of locomotion a whirl. While I anticipated she would be thrilled to be allowed [...]
22
Jan
2010
The Hit List Forever
Let me get the cheesy redundant joke done right off the bat: On top of my list of things to get done is to finish Dave Allens Getting Things Done. How droll. What fun.1 On top of the personal hit list of Andy Kim of The Potion Factory I’m willing to bet a few shillings [...]
15
Jan
2010
Another sad indication of societal ass-hattery
I use 2Do app on the iPhone to Get Something Done. It’s a beautiful, well-functioning and well-considered application of the Delicious Persuasion, and I’ve mused more than once that the best thing in-danger-of-vaporware company The Potion Factory could do would be to sub-contract these guys to handle their iPhone companion app. That’s a story for [...]
14
Jan
2010
A few random AppleScript snippets
I was just writing an AppleScript to look up words on the excellent NinjaWords and decided to post it in case someone else needs something similar. Since one snippet of AppleScript is not a very meaty post, I’ll throw in a couple extra. Look up word on NinjaWords Select a word and copy it to [...]
When Iceland went bust and started selling .is domains I grabbed martin.is. Of course I did. That’s the kind of guy I am. Even as I swiped that credit card (and by “swipe” I mean “typed in all my info into the appropriate boxes.”) I knew I had no idea what I was going to [...]
8
Jan
2010
O’Reilly iPhone app update
A short while ago I wrote about my disappointment with the O’Reilly iPhone apps. The other day I noticed that three of the four titles I originally bought had an update. I’ve finally had time to have a look at them and I have to say that I’m pleasantly surprised. The 1.1 versions are infinitely [...]
