Iggy Loves his Bio-Mist

This is my iguana (about 10" Snout to Vent, so about 2 years old) after he was spritzed with Bio-Mist, an aloe vera and cactus juice concoction that helps his skin. He’s molting now, so this is a look of pure joy.
Sometimes I wish I was an iguana.

Applescript to transform mail.app message to GTDAlt inbox item

I’m currently using GTDAlt in TextMate as my GTD processing system. It’s a text based system, so it’s upgradable, portable, etc.
Through the TextMate bundle framework, you get some nice collating of contexts, etc.
GTDAlt does rely on some proprietary syntax, but it’s pretty basic and easily parsable.
There is rudimentary support for iterating through items in [...]

Applescript that archives NetNewsWire post to DEVONThink Pro

As a refinement to an earlier script I posted, I made some modifications to my suggested news reading workflow.
The applescript in this post will take the currently selected article in NetNewsWire, prompt the user for tags about the article, and then create a web archive of the article in DEVONThink.
It attaches the referral URL to [...]

dorkbot-sxsw wrap-up

I just posted the dorkbot6 wrapup.

Displaying tags on mephisto

The mephisto liquid tags, drops, and filters are not very well documented. You have to look in the source code (specifically drop_filters.rb) to discover what’s available.
I was able to add rendering of tags/keywords by using:
{{article | linked_tag_list}}

in my template.

Applescript to import NNW smart folder into Yojimbo

Today I modified this script which facilitates Yojimbo importing from NetNewsWire
I’ve set up a smart folder in NetNewsWire that grabs the latest 50 flagged headlines from any feed.
I needed this script because I had a technorati watch feed for dorkbot and I wanted to collect blog mentions to send around. I was just flagging [...]

Hack to get all posts with Textmate/Blogging Fetch

UPDATE (2007.03.20.084041): Don’t do this. It’s an awful hack and will grind your computer to a halt.
I want to hack the textmate blogging bundle to do a full download of all posts in a blog and save those posts to local disk.
First, I just hacked the bundle to allow user to fetch any post [...]