http://stephenb.me linux geek. foodie. libertarian. mobile addict. Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:14:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Overrated. http://stephenb.me/2009/10/taste-of-atlanta-review/ Microsoft Messenger:mac sucks. But at least it's fairly easy to script things with AppleScript. 1. Change your status message with AppleScript: tell application "Microsoft Messenger" to activate tell application "System Events" tell application process "Microsoft Messenger" click button 5 of window "Corporate Contacts" keystroke "hello world" key code 36 end tell end tell 2. Change your status ... http://stephenb.me/2009/09/scripting-microsoft-messenger-with-applescript/ Getopts is an easy tool to process and check your command line arguments in a bash script. Far easier than trying to parse out the options yourself! Example script: #!/bin/bash # Example script using getops usage () { cat http://stephenb.me/2009/09/using-getops-with-bash/ Vegan cheese substitutes are TERRIBLE.  I don't think I can say enough bad things about them.  A special place is reserved in hell for the people who created "vegan rella" mozarella cheese substitute. I tried making pizza and the "vegan cheese" liquefied into the most horrid smelling, sticky grossness I've ever ... http://stephenb.me/2009/08/vegan-pizza/ Yesterday, I had a good cycle on the Big Creek Greenway up to the YMCA and then swam  500 meters.  A few guys were left at the office doing an upgrade last night, so they were entertained by stalking watching my work-out on Nokia SportsTracker.  It's seriously my favorite app ... http://stephenb.me/2009/08/vegan-days-5-and-6/ Vegan Sushi is cheap!  I picked up the ingredients I needed from BuHi farmer's market: Bamboo Sushi Mat - $1.99 Nori (seaweed wraps) - $0.99 1 Sweet Potato - $0.49 1 Cucumber - $0.26 1 Avocado - $0.99 3lbs Sushi Rice - $2.99 Rice Vinegar - $1.99 Wasabi paste - $0.99 Gigantic jar of sesame seeds - $3.49 Load up ... http://stephenb.me/2009/08/vegan-day-4-sushi-time/ Breakfast was another attempt at quinoa.  I cooked it in chocolate rice milk and had it with bananas.  It was good.  I think next quinoa experiment will be savory, maybe a quinoa burrito.  Lunch time I was out running errands like I usually am on weekends, so I decided to ... http://stephenb.me/2009/08/vegan-day-3/ Nothing new here: needed to go through some old log files to find something. Unfortunately, I needed to match across 2 lines specifically. I wrote up my regex, and tested it in Reggy and all was good.  I tried it out in the real world but didn't get ... http://stephenb.me/2009/08/grep-and-multiline-regular-expressions/ Yesterday was the first full day eating vegan.  For breakfast, I had a mashed sweet potato with rice milk and turbinado sugar.  Pretty good and filling.  Lunch was the stew that I had made in the crock pot, which was delicious.  Recipe below. I'll be making vegan shepherd's pie later ... http://stephenb.me/2009/08/vegan-days-1-and-2/ I've been a vegetarian a couple times in my life, the longest lasting a little over a year.  It's hard work, since the American way of life doesn't lend itself well to a single guy being able to prepare his own meals all the time. After reading Richard Blais' 21-day ... http://stephenb.me/2009/08/vegan-challenge-day-0/