Pop-up dictionary

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I found this tip from osxhelp.com, where you can get a pop-up dictionary window in Mac OS X by clicking Command+Control+D while hovering the cursor over a word. I found though that this does’t work with every application, like in Google Chrome when I’m editing a blog entry, but almost every other application seems to … Read more

Ducks take on the six-axis

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You know it’s funny, looking at the word six-axis and you see it’s spelt the same forwards and backwards. Enough duh… The game I’m blogging about today is called Super Rub A Dub… This is a cute game that uses the accelerometer from the six-axis controller, the PS3 controller that is, to control the board … Read more

Appropriate thing to say

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I was at a funeral for my wife’s great uncle. Sitting in front of us were his grandchildren and my mother-in-law recognized one of the boys and said, “I remember you. I was at your bris” “Ah… awkward…”, he replied. I tried to lighten the moment by saying, “You don’t normally hear that at a … Read more

Creating a Tag with Subversion

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If you have the need to create a tag from your current source code, you can use the copy command from the shell of your preference: $ svn copy http://svn.example.com/repos/MineMineItsMine/trunk http://svn.example.com/repos/MineMineItsMine/tags/release-2.0 -m “Creating 2.0 release of the ‘MineMineItsMine’ project.”