Monthly Archives: October 2005

ipod firefly

By Will Norris | Published: October 23, 2005
I’ve taken a few friends’ advice and decided to watch the entire Firefly series before I watch Serenity. I’m on the last disc, and was surprised to see a cameo appearance by the iPod Shuffle… well, sorta. In the episode entitled “The Message”, a soldier has recorded is final wishes on a small [...]

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Nightly WebKit builds

By Will Norris | Published: October 13, 2005
The WebKit team announced a new site today where you can download nightly builds of the latest WebKit — very cool. I went ahead and wrote the following simple shell script to automate the process of downloading and installing the latest build: #!/bin/sh curl -o /tmp/webkit.dmg http://nightly.webkit.org/builds/Latest-WebKit-CVS.dmg hdiutil mount /tmp/webkit.dmg if [ -d /Volumes/WebKit/WebKit.app ]; then [...]

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SSN frustrations

By Will Norris | Published: October 3, 2005
Anyone who has known me for very long has probably heard me rant sometime or another about social security numbers, and if you haven’t then here’s your chance. It aggravates me to no end how flippant so many individuals and corporations are about tossing around social security numbers. They either don’t realize how [...]

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