Posted September 18, 2006
There is a Terminal hack I’ve been looking for, for a good long while. It is a UNIX command that allows you to tell your Mac to bump an individual app’s priority in the process list. I don’t know the actual Technical way to put it… but Adam Curry once (in the early DSC days) mentioned he’d found out how to do this and was utilising this hack when recording his Podcast, so every other application had to get in line behind his recording suite.
In Windows XP, you can do this by CMD-ALT-DEL-ing and then right clicking the application name, and setting Priority: High, Low, Realtime. I’m having no luck with the search engine’s because I don’t know how to word this process. Maybe I’ll e-mail Captain Curry (hmm, certainly Private Pilot Curry, he’s a priest too- indeed) he’ll know how to bump my sluggish iPhoto into something more useable (trying to make a book for the first time).
btw. i’m obviously hoping mr. C will find this himself via Technorati and leave a comment, or mail me the answer as my e-mail has as much chance as our olde Podcast being stuck on the iTunes Store’s front page. by the way, doesn’t the PodShow network look snazzy, almost worth making another podcast to go along with this pretty page. ;-)
Posted September 15, 2006
This is all down to that Jamie Oliver. Well I don’t like him or what he stands for - he is forcing our kids to be more picky about their food. #
- Sam Walker
What the hell is wrong with these parents? I mean, do I really have to say anything more, do any of us. Why do we have to point out that something is not right here.
Regarding that “we don’t like them Jamie Olver’s down eer” remark, these mothers obviously don’t want little Johnny comming home and demanding Pastrami spiced Yogurt, served with shaved thin with pickled ginger, wasabi and citrus flaboured soy milk beans. because all they know is 200′ for 20mins, that’s chips, pizz, fish-fingers… how to cook shite basically. Ugg.
Posted September 11, 2006
Talked to Billy last night. Both he and Stephen are well, they’re in Montrrey, North-East Mexico. Staying with a friend-of-a-friend for free in a wee back-room for the next 2 months, or so.
Billy’s days involve learning spanish (”until my head hurts”) and looking for jobs, Knighter says Bill’s his bitch and does the food (mainly cookies & pasta, he hasn’t started cooking the good Mexican stuff). They are looking for jobs right now - although he didn’t really go into this. Billy’s also keeping a journal, he writes an entry every morning.
Stephen was pick-pocket-ed while in the taking a slash, someone nabbed his wallet out his back pocket. Lost two credit cards, driving license and some dinéro. So no knife fights or whatever that I had imagined. Apart from that wee incident everything is coo’ and all.
Check out Billy’s Flickr.
I just wrote this post, but one thing Wordpress is missing is an auto-save and (Mail.app stylee) update funtion.
Basil Pao takes all the photos for Michael Palin’s travel books. He’s really, really great. One of my favorite discoveries of today (another being the 23″ iMac above) was a couple of folders on Palin’s Travels - Michael’s homepage - 300MB of Desktop Backgrounds. You can also get to these individually by browsing the site’s photo sections and clicking under “Wallpaper” in the right hand column, but its messy. I used SiteCrawler (free to demo).
Go Here for a starter, then follow the folders through to a big list of images. Try: sah for sahara, then click photos and 1024 (size of your screen).
The photo above of a pretty tibetan lady with a cigar is one of my favorites. See the original page here. Mhhh, a thousand words.
As I said I’ve already written this within a line or two finished… I was nearly finished! If your a Mac user you’ll notice how easy it is to close Safari even if you have 20 tabs open with two keystrokes. This is fixed in Leopard, with a little Firefox styled dialogue box, I’m happy to report.
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