Mitch Hedberg dead at 37

And I don’t mean for me. I’ve got it easy compared to some. But it would be nice if the constant rainstorm/drizzle that has been falling on my family for about 3 years would let up for a while.

My sister’s domicile was burglarized on Friday. Pam and I traveled down – 4.5 hours – to see what we can do to help. Of course, the door is no longer the standard size and the frame will have to be replaced as well. That is way out of my league, I’m afraid. If it were my house I’d give it a shot, but not on someone else’s place.

As they took her computer my friend Cliff has stepped up and loaned her a computer until the insurance helps her replace the Dell that was taken. It will be slow, but serviceable. Now I just have to find time to load the thing. You know, in my copious spare time. This way she has a computer to use for school. The temptation to get her to buy a Mac Mini is strong.

Work still expects results, I’ve got a billion things to do, I still haven’t started the collaborative project I committed to (Hi, David!), and we’ve got to start planning to move. We are still moving, as far as I know.

The fun at Chez Templin never ends. Weee!

... but this seems like a knockoff of another product.

It eats refridgerators. It eats car bumpers. It even eats 55 gallon steel drums filled with concrete.

Witness it here (Flash required)

Exhibit A (Not Safe For Work)

While I think I’ve got the problem solved by other means, I found a problem where using rsync to syncronize two directories via the standard rsync protocol corrupted .webloc files (these are url location files – you drag the URL to the desktop and it creates a file that links to that site).

This is rsync across the network using an SSH tunnel between two Macs. Please don’t suggest using AFP. Just… don’t.

Well, in Mac OS X the ”.webloc” files store their information in the resource fork of the file, and standard rsync doesn’t copy the resource fork, thus corrupting the file.

So, using bits and pieces from other posts I managed to cobble together an AppleScript that will convert the .webloc file to a platform-independent .url file. Then, I simply attached that script as a folder action to my Desktop folder. Now, when I drag a .webloc file to the desktop it is automagically converted to a .url file.

Ok, one could argue that only Mac OS X would ever have this problem, and I can’t argue with that, but I can see folder actions being useful in more than just this case.