non-random ramble

rm -rf `find . -type d -name .svn`

Unfortunately I didnt get my backup done in time and the laptop went down.

anyway I had most of the stuff copied accross but still have some wierdness on new laptop.

I wanted to make sure everything was owned by my user (called admin) so i was trying to

chown -R admin * in my home dir.

I kept getting “Operation not permitted”. My freind Gordon pointed out that the files were locked and to remove the lock i need to do:

sudo chflags -R nouchg <files>

sweet.

This is just joy.

Re-Imaginining book covers by global nerdy.

The other day, Alistair chatted to me about the ‘retro’ concept of changing my IDE background to black like in the old skool days. Then I saw a Neal Ford’s blog which also has a black background and looks cool. So I am trying it on this blog.

I think I likes it.

It seems theres a bit of a thing happening out there, a lot of people say black on white is better:

hanselman

coding horror

456bereastreet – really doesnt like it and say you should offer alternative stylesheets.

A lengthy discussion – Makes a good point that if the whole web is black on white and then you come to a site like this, its going to be harder to read.

I just read this interesting response from Brian Eno about the future.

It coincides with some thoughts I’ve had about the future and global warming (I have an imaginary book called ‘Climate of fear’ which I might write).