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Angels and Biochemistry and Beauty - Apr 22, 09 A sudden change in biochemistry that results in the recognition of the perfect moment is magical.

The farce of the last two weeks in politics and the media - Oct 3, 08 I desperately wanted to blog tonight about my frustration with the farce that is the media and politics in America today... but PBS saved me the trouble.

iPhone: Love it? but? - Jul 21, 08 I love my new iPhone... I really do... but... I do have a couple complaints more...

A couple words on God? if there is a God? - Jul 14, 08 Would God care about some of the things we are often told He/She cares about? more...

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Digital Music Metadata - GimmeSomeTune - Mar 30, 09 My new music collection maintenance recommendation is GimmeSomeTune . For what it does it works very well. GimmeSomeTune runs in the background and monitors the music currently playing in iTunes. When a new track is played it can check to if the track has lyrics and/or artwork associated to it in iTunes. If it does [...]

Bash for loop example - Feb 3, 09 Here’s a simple example that uses the for command in bash to echo a list of strings for a in 1 2 3; do echo $a; done ; Note that the semicolons can be carriage returns instead. In fact it seems that everything prior to the first semi-colon can appear on the same line, and do can [...]

Best CD ripping/encoding for OSX - Jan 22, 09 The best ripping/encoding software for OSX is and has been for a very long time (in my opinion) Max. It supports both CDParanoia for ripping and numerous encoding formats including MP3, FLAC, OGG and a bunch more. It even does transcoding. There are 3 types of ripping/encoding configuration settings that are important to me (and should [...]

Using find to collect and tar files - Jan 13, 09 Lets say that you have a deep, wide directory structure with a ton of files of various types. How do you go about extracting all the files with a given filename, while maintaining the folder structure that the files were in? And for added fun lets say you want to tar the resulting list of [...]

  "Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little death that brings about
  total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass
  over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the
  inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be
  nothing. Only I will remain."
   - Dune by Frank Herbert
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