njr 3.0

...aren’t perfect — after our recent Dragon and EMR upgrades, text I’m dictating often fails to display at all until I use the mouse or keyboard to update the screen. Dictating into Fantastical My fellow residents and I receive some scheduling information every month in a Word document. It’s nice to look at but not too useful in practice. It’s faster to dictate this information into Fantastical in order to convert it into calendar entries than to tr...

10:34 PM | Computing, Dictation, macOS

…king “Fetch Feed From Website”, as recommended, causes the feed to correctly change to http://pl.atyp.us/wordpress/index.php/feed/, though I repeatedly saw hangs when clicking “Retry Fetching and Parsing”. Feed Wrangler did the right thing automatically; in addition, its combination of old and new feeds is exemplary. NewsBlur has a pretty good solution, though it requires manual intervention, exhibited some flakiness and necessitated the folder be…

4:10 PM | Computing, Web

…ion “Emacs” to activate' I now use: appswitch -i com.gnu.emacs The speed difference is significant: % time osascript -e 'tell application “Emacs” to activate' osascript -e 'tell application “Emacs” to activate' 2.42s user 1.25s system 62% cpu 5.864 total % time appswitch -i com.gnu.emacs appswitch -i com.gnu.emacs 0.01s user 0.07s system 13% cpu 0.602 total % time appswitch -a Emacs appswitch -a Emacs 0.00s user 0.05s syst…

3:44 AM | Radio

…RE still? The closest I've come to going “wow!” at a program recently has been the 2.0 beta of OmniGraffle. Although I must admit I haven't used business drawing programs in a while, so my nearest comparison is old programs like ClarisImpact. Here's my saga of OS X mail clients today, from a post I made to the Boston BBS. Well, I didn't have any comments on Apple's Mail app until earlier today, when Eudora started to crash…

12:38 AM | Radio

…t http://web.sabi.net/log/ hosted on my ISP's Web server, instead of redirecting to radio.weblogs.com. Stage two is to replace all the internal links to radio.weblogs.com, stage three is to write an upstream driver that replaces each file on radio.weblogs.com with a redirect page pointing to the corresponding resource on web.sabi.net, and stage four is turning off upstreaming to UserLand. At least this way I can be sure that my Weblog updates…

4:36 PM | Radio