OK, so I was making a list of things to do today, but then I decided that having created them in Things, I wanted to move them to Apple’s Reminders. Don’t ask – I’m a task list fetishist. A neat trick you can do with Cultured Code’s Things is to select a bunch of tasks and drag them to a text editor, which will create one line per task with any note appended in brackets....
I localised my awesome fuzzyclock.py script to Norwegian language and, uh, regional time-reading standards. Behold the glory of vagklokke.py! A little terminal in the top right of my screen now proudly proclaims: <br /> Datoen er 2012-11-13<br /> Klokka er fem på elleve<br /> It was fun to work out how to handle “x på/over halv” without too many horrible range conditions. I haven’t bothered to remove stale things like ‘tjuefem’ from the minute list, because it ain’t broke....
From Ubuntu docs about the Compose key at https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ComposeKey: The compose key sequences used by Gnome are derived from the X compose tables of XFree86 version 4.0 with further modifications to provide a Gnome standard for all locales. They are hard coded into the program in source file gtk+-2.10.7/gtk/gtkimcontextsimple.c Digging into the current Debian gtk+ source verifies this: ` /* This file contains the table of the compose sequences, static const guint16 gtk_compose_seqs_compact[] = {}...
If you had the Diablo III beta installed, you might come across error 33 “battle.net is down for maintenance” while trying to log in. This is because there is an old registry setting pointing at the US rather than EU login server. Take a look in HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Blizzard Entertainment\Battle.net\D3. I solved this by deleting the entire ‘Blizzard Entertainment’ key. From orbit, just to be sure. Works like a charm.
Like several people I know, I have two AppleID accounts for personal use. I have one that I set up back when an iPod was my only Apple gadget and they first opened the iTunes Store. This has all my (large number of) iTunes purchases associated with it. I also have a MobileMe account that I set up a while later when I first bought a Mac, which I now largely use for the me....