If so, maybe you can use this script. It finds all the items you’ve flagged that are older than 6 months old and unflags them. Seriously dude… you aren’t going to ever go back and read that shit.

set dateLimit to (current date) - (180 * days)
tell application "NetNewsWire"
	set flaggedItemList to item 1 of (subscriptions where display name is "Flagged Items")
	--get date published of headlines of flaggedItemList
	set oldFlaggedArticles to (headlines of flaggedItemList) where date published < dateLimit
	repeat with article in oldFlaggedArticles
		set isFlagged of article to no
	end repeat
	set theMessage to "Marked " & (count of oldFlaggedArticles) & " flagged items as read. They were all from before " & dateLimit & "."
	display alert "Marked as read" message theMessage
end tell

Unflag old Flagged Items.zip

I didn’t think I was actually going to get it, but I was selected for a solo exhibit at the Richmond Main Library.

The first month available is in November, 2010, so i’ve got the better part of a year to prepare. You can check out the images I submitted at jimkubicek.com.

Oh, and this isn’t in my profile, but just learned this trick last week and which I had known about it years ago. In OS X, ‘open ./’ opens the current directory in Finder.

echo
echo "######################################"
echo "#                                    #"
echo "#     Welcome to Jim's Macbook       #"
echo "#                                    #"
echo "######################################"
echo

PATH=$PATH:/Users/jkubicek/bin
export PATH

PS1="\[\e[1;36m\]$PS1\[\e[m\] "
export PS1

alias ls='ls -G'
alias imac='ssh jimkubicek@imac.local'
alias gc='git commit -m'
alias ga='git add .'
alias gs='git status'
alias gl='git log --oneline --graph'

Just got a pair of Grado S60s for a 2nd generation iPod Shuffle.

Love them. Crystal clear sound, but, like other reviewers have said, almost no sound isolation. Everyone can hear your music and you can hear everyone else. Best for listening at home.

Of course, I probably wouldn’t have gotten them at all if it wasn’t a trade since I’ve also got a pair of Sennheiser 280s.

Much more isolation, but the sound isn’t as full or clear. Also, they are a little tight, so if you’ve got a huge pumpkin-head, you’ll have to stretch these bad-boys out.

Oh, and if you’ve got a new Apple product, you can’t go wrong with these:

Yeah, they let you play/pause on any iPhone and let you adjust the volume on an iPhone 3GS… but did you know you can also play/pause/volume on newer MacBooks and iMacs? Yeah… they are also super isolating and sound pretty darn good. Don’t try to use them for long conversations, though. The isolation makes talking on them kind of weird.

Check it out!

I’ve got my first real portfolio hosted now, it was my submission to a solo art exhibit at the Richmond Public Library. I find out next weekend if I’ve been selected, so wish me luck. I’m not to worried about it. If I don’t make the cut, I just saved about $500 in printing and mounting… so you know, I’ve got that going for me.

Username, password, hostname were double and triple checked.

It turns out, that when I was installing MySQL on my computer (following the official instructions, which are just fine), I set up a UNIX socket. When I was setting up phpMyAdmin it explicitly asked for the socket… but Wordpress doesn’t, so it had never occurred to me to enter it.

You should enter it.

It’s for my local camera club, btw. Look for a new page some time into the new year.

In other news, I was approached by the library curator. She liked my work and suggested that I submit my portfolio for a solo show. I’ve got a little over 1 month to prepare, so I’m going to get right on that.

Location:
Richmond Main Library
Gelman Room
101 East Franklin Street
Richmond, VA

Time:
7-9PM

Map:

Here’s a demo of the OS:

The key here is that this OS is a differentiator in a pretty homogenous market. Pop Quiz: Who makes the best laptops, Sony, HP or Dell? Trick question, nobody gives a fuck because they all run the same shitty operating system.

To quote Gruber (emphasis mine):

Apple’s ability to produce innovative hardware is inextricably intertwined with its ability to produce innovative software. The iPhone is an even better example than the Mac.

It’s not just that Apple is different among computer makers. It’s that Apple is the only one that even can be different, because it’s the only one that has its own OS. Part of the industry-wide herd mentality is an assumption that no one else can make a computer OS — that anyone can make a computer but only Microsoft can make an OS. It should be embarrassing to companies like Dell and Sony, with deep pockets and strong brand names, that they’re stuck selling computers with the same copy of Windows installed as the no-name brands.

There is the key. As much as folks talk about Apple’s sexy packaging, ask most Mac users and they would almost entirely rather use OS X on a cheap laptop than Windows XP on a fancy laptop. Google OS is offering manufacturers the opportunity to differentiate themselves, stand out from the crowd.

One caveat. Chrome OS is open source, which means that computer manufacturers can (and will) put their own special brand of turd cream on this OS. Just because HP releases a Chrome netbook does not mean that they didn’t foul up the OS so much that it’s borderline unusable.