hmm

parking. White van style.

Feel free to ignore this post

Musing.

Oddly why am I so embarassed about blogging about gender issues? I feel like I'm bothering people, or something. Oh well.

Just read this . It argues that Barbie is a female role model because essentially, she is a go-getter and she was never depicted married. Getting married, yes, but not married. If she had a baby it was always because she was babysitting. She has lots of money for all this stuff, etc etc.

There isn't much I can contibute, apart from quibble with a few bits and bobs: I dislike the idea that a woman's life no longer exists after she is married: but then girls never dream of being grown ups do they? ;-)

I feel I am somewhat blessed: I grew up in a society where women were expected to be able to to everything, and we never had to fight for people to allow women to do stuff like the previous generations did. Whether it actually happens, is a different matter, but we're expected to do well. At least as one of those relatively well off people anyway: the picture is very different for women who weren't born with educated parent(s), or women born in developing countries (fs, every term you can use is offensive, "3rd World" is just as bad as "developing"). Actually, it's not always wealth is the determining factor...

Here is also an interesting case: we can see the pressure people have in general to conform to society, only it seems more gross here because it's in opposite to what the West would call the norm. In this case young woman or girls are being force fed to make them more suitable for marriage in their culture. You could argue this is basically any society's distorted way of interpteting the function of us being here: to mate. So Western culture wants young, slim beautiful women because it means there's a good chance they'll produce good offspring that also have these traits, and they want sucessful, attractive, intelligent men for pretty much the same purpose. It's all very well and good in moderation, but extremes are never amazingly great: the mere idea of starving or force feeding a young person to give them an "advantage" is just disgusting to me. But to the parents, it's just the same as getting them into a good school, taking them to the doctors and doing all the "normal" things to make a kid healthy.

Woo

My personalDNA Report

Send Growl notifications over a network with Quicksilver

The motivation to do this is somewhat um... embarassing, but the results are below:


using terms from application "Quicksilver"
on process text input
set message to input as string
do shell script "/usr/local/bin/growlnotify -u -H {destination} " & ¬
& "-t \"Title\" -m \"" & quoted form of message & "\""
end process text
end using terms from

ARGH blogspot. if you don't like the line, tell me in the edit box.

- Firstly, you'll need to turn on "listen to incoming notifications" in your Growl prefpane, in the "Network" Tab
to receive notifications at all.
- Secondly, install growlnotify - if you chucked it out when you installed growl, install it again, then find the "extras"
folder.

Create an Actions folder in ~/Library/Application\ Support/Quicksilver and save the script in there, with the {destination} being the location you want it to go to, and the Title you'd like.

Restart quicksilver (cmd-ctrl-q), enter text mode, tab over, type as much of your script name as you need, then hit enter.

Until I actually get the hang of quicksilver plugin development, you'll have to do a separate script for each location. That or
produce something that gets the name and then message using a separating character.

If you're fussy/correct/etc, shove a tell me and end tell round the do shell script

Updatey

1. All blogs, including cooking one, are being merged, and then go into categories. Just easier this way.

2. I appear to have moved home (again). There is lots of dairy milk (due to unnamed person's 200g a day habit), and I seem to have lost weight due to lack of access to cheese and regular large amounts of pasta. Certainly no complaints, hehe!

3. More will be posted soon. I've done quite a bit, just really haven't got round to blogging it all. *grin* Just wanted to undormant things.

Wandering yayness

While looking for a clanger image for my script... I find this:


and thus discover a rather lovely blog: Laputanlogic.com
Yup. I vaugely considered a tattoo then. That's how wow it was.

I also have discovered I am incorrect. It seems the 68LC040 emulator did not have a pretty name like Rosetta did. However, I
am much loving the Apple's developer documentation - the new wiki for a while for me!

Now here's the fun bit.

The wonderful little Acorn machines you had at school (if you lived in the appropiate timeframe)? Well, Acorn Computers have the honour of producing the world's first commerical RISC processor, the ARM1 (mid 80s). Apple wanted in on commercial RISC, and thus with Acorn helped fund a company called ARM ltd. The first processor made was the ARM6, an embeddable RISC core. Full 32-bit code and data addressing. In 1991.

Look here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARM_architecture and just SEE what this company has produced over the years.

And to bring it back to today... the iPhone has one of these babies. Basically "let's try Newton again seeing as people are used to electronic crap in their pockets".

Excellent stuff. I love it when all the stuff I like links together. :D

Another Adventure!

Looking for a new job. Can't be too bad.

*checks contents of wardrobe*
One, worn looking suit. No suitable shirts.
Well, can't complain about shopping I suppose.

Anyhoo: small task for tonight: editing the sudoers file so I can have access to logs as a "standard" user.
Woo! Actually... better to su over still?

Bigger task for tonight: tagging music. This is going to take forever, even with iEatBrainz.