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Please, Evernote, wake up. I wanted you to win. 14 Feb 2010 | 06:59 am
Today I happily downloaded the latest Evernote client for Windows. You see, I've got a secret crush on Evernote and have been waiting for it to catch up to Microsoft's OneNote so I could switch to it...
Some handy bash commands 15 Feb 2009 | 12:24 pm
On Linux shells, I always feel pretty crummy about getting around quickly via cd. So, in the spirit of Daniel's up command, here's a few other quick-directory commands to add to your .bashrc: Other v...
Using Second Life to create movies 1 Jun 2007 | 10:24 am
Here's a silly video I created for a contest at work: http://youdeliver.citrix.com/Play/tabid/79/pid/1112/Default.aspx Feel free to vote for it, because the top submissions get an iPhone. Tool...
EventScripts Software "Box" 21 Jan 2007 | 12:24 pm
Over on digg recently I also saw a tutorial for creating a fake software box using Photoshop. I don't use Photoshop, but I do use Paint.NET. So I decided to try the same thing using that tool, which i...
I'm not the biggest fan of exclamation points. 21 Jan 2007 | 12:24 pm
Over on digg, I saw a very Mattie-like script for GreaseMonkey/Firefox-- it's used to eliminate extra exclamation points on webpages. Using this, now I never have to look at web sites with painful exc...
In which Mattie links a binary teaching exercise 22 Jan 2006 | 12:24 pm
Using the Socratic method, it seems that you can teach third-graders to do binary arithmetic. Very neat. (Thanks to digg for the link.) Posted via web from Imported from http://mattie.net/blog
In which Mattie discusses the PDC 'overflow' trick 17 Sep 2005 | 10:23 am
At the PDC, whenever a session is too full, they have overflow rooms where they beam the presentation and a video of the speaker. This is a wonderful idea and it's very useful for people who would mis...
In which Mattie discusses PDC 2005 Day 1 14 Sep 2005 | 10:27 am
Today is the first day of PDC 2005. I'm here in Los Angeles with thousands of other developers listening to Microsoft's encouragement to develop on their new platforms. I'm taking some detailed notes ...
In which Mattie admires a translator's intentional omission 30 Jul 2005 | 10:20 am
In a translation I have of Seneca the Younger's letters, I found myself laughing at a note by the translator. Seneca has one letter in which he rants about writers who waste time on rumors and superfl...
In which Mattie links the PureText clipboard tool 5 Jun 2005 | 10:23 am
PureText is a simple little tool that could save me hours of my life. I searched for it today before I began to write such a tool for the third time. Here's a summary by the author (the guy who writes...
