Thanks to Dan for telling me about this and for the company while
eating it.

We had four entrees, three appetizers, desserts, and wine, total was
$7.70. We tipped generously.

joe

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Sent from nowhere in particular.

I get a lot of requests to add date-shifting support for iPhoto 08 to my iPhoto AppleScripts. But in most cases, the scripts would be completely unnecessary, iPhoto finally built this feature into the application. Here’s how to use it.

Select one or more photos you’d like to adjust, then choose “Adjust Date and Time…” from the Photos menu:

You then change the Adjusted date to the correct time and all the other photos will be shifted to match.

Using this native tool is substantially faster than anything I could do with AppleScript. I’m just kind of sad I never finished up the auto-date difference calculator I was working on.

I’m surprised at how emotional I was this morning. My older daughter was born 6 months and 8 days after September 11th. Today she and her younger sister are both in school. I think this is the first year I’ve been alone for the entire morning.

Walking my younger daughter to preschool this morning, we stopped as the firemen of Engine 5 pulled the truck out of the station a little and stood silently to commemorate Flight 11 at 8:45. I tried to explain to her why we were waiting for them — with them — but I had no voice. Those men and women dwarf me, every day they’re a reminder of what true heroism looks like. I feel lucky that my window looks out on their station.

There was a bagpiper at the station, as the firefighters stood in remembrance of the South Tower falling at 10:05 am, the bagpiper played Amazing Grace. At 10:28 am he started with Amazing Grace and switched into America The Beautiful.

Previous 9/11s: 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006. I don’t know why I didn’t post anything last year.

Three weeks ago my mother was diagnosed with breast cancer.

Last week, she became a survivor.

In honor of my mom, this Sunday, September 14th, I will be running in my first race, the Komen Foundation’s NYC Race For The Cure. Please consider making a donation, no amount is too small.

Update: The race was an amazing event, possibly the biggest crowd I’ve ever been a part of. It was also incredibly emotional and inspiring.

Thanks to everyone who donated, we raised over $1,600 in less than a week!

I got a lot of really positive feedback for my installing Subversion on a shared host piece, but now that I’ve mostly switched over to Git, I figured I might as well write a companion post.

These instructions are much simpler, the installation is fast, and, like most things Git, it just works.

As with my previous Subversion solution, this will be a barebones install. It’s almost certainly against the terms of your hosting plan to run any daemons. The purpose of this installation is to be able to push changes from remote repositories into the hosted repo, where the hosted repository may also serve as the source directory of the live website.

Installing Git

SSH into your webserver. I created a source directory to hold the files which made cleanup easier:

cd
mkdir src
cd src

Grab the most current source tarballs from the Git site or the new, prettier Git mirror site. At the time of this posting, the most recent version was 1.5.6.5:

curl http://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/git-1.5.6.5.tar.gz > git-1.5.6.5.tar.gz

Untar the archive and cd into the new directory:

tar -xzvf git-1.5.6.5.tar.gz
cd git-1.5.6.5

This next step is the only one that really seems to matter with regards to shared hosting. The Configure script needs to be told where to install, and because we’re on a shared host, Git’s files should be put into our home directory:

./configure --prefix=$HOME

Lastly, make and install:

make && make install

That should be it, check your installed version like this:

$ git --version
git version 1.5.6.5

It’s now safe to delete the src folder which contained the download and source files.

Note that these instructions do not install Git’s documentation man pages. Also, these instructions appear to work exactly the same on Mac OS X (only tested on 10.5.4), though the installer package is way easier and includes documentation.