Yes, I’m on Twitter- alandove: Another reason we need universal healthcare. @DrFriedenCDC "education & income ... keys to better health. Another reason to stay in school!"
- alandove: No, the Lexus with its lights on probably doesn't belong to anyone at this public health meeting.
- alandove: RT @stevesilberman: Taxes, spending and deficits are all lower today than when Obama took office. http://t.co/NGnJlr5l
- alandove: Good: Apple store next door to conference. Bad: they couldn't fix it either. Good: bought Bluetooth keyboard, now phone = laptop.
- alandove: @lhrandall Cool! I've been sitting about five rows back, end of row, house left. Will probably take same seat tomorrow.
- alandove: My new laptop. #oldschool http://t.co/UK1oPLAQ
- alandove: Just arrived in ATL to cover 2 conferences, and my brand new MacBook Air suddenly and completely croaked. No words for how much this sucks.
- alandove: The journey of a thousand miles should begin with an empty bladder.
- alandove: RT @profvrr: This Week in Virology (TWiV) episode 183 is up: Bats out of hell http://t.co/8ukXCDCq
- alandove: Plenty happens if you listen to HF radio frequencies. "We keep hearing about these ... sunspots and nothing happens!" @sciencegoddess
Tag Archives: programming
Saving My iLife With Applescript and rsync
With a little bit of spare time this week, I finally got myself synchronized – my MacBook now has the same versions of all of my important files as my desktop machine, even down to mirrored libraries in iTunes and … Continue reading
A Bash Script to Create Photo Galleries
I’ve started a second blog on the site, under the name “N3IMU.” That’s my nom de nerd, and the new blog will include everything not related to science or journalism. You can subscribe to the RSS feeds separately, so people only interested in the science posts can avoid the other geekery.
Now for some of that other geekery. I maintain a couple of Web sites for a volunteer organization, and one of the recurring problems I have involves posting photos. People routinely send me dozens of digital images from some recent event and ask if I can put them on the group’s site somewhere. Of course, the images haven’t been cropped to Web-appropriate sizes, or processed in any other way. What I need is some magical folder where I can dump the images and have them turn into a nice, W3C-compliant HTML photo gallery. Continue reading
Learning New Languages
Recently, I started getting back into an old hobby: computer programming. My use of the term “computer programming” suggests just how old this hobby is for me; these days, it’s known as Information Technology, Application Development, Software Engineering, or some other corporate designation, reflecting the field’s near-total professionalization. Indeed, I’d tried to get back into it a few years ago, but quickly concluded that writing my own software, like repairing my own car, was one of those self-reliant activities of yesteryear that had been removed, gently but firmly, from the hands of mere amateurs. The programming hobbyist had apparently gone the way of the shade-tree mechanic. Continue reading