I still have to go through the Windows Run menu and the clipboard if I want to load saved snippets or otherwise pipe data somewhere. Bummer. That inconsistency will make learning this new system quite a bit harder.
Read more...I wasn’t looking forward to re-issuing fifty “learn as open x” Enso commands on each of my machines. What I found, though, is that Enso simply stores ordinary Windows shortcuts here:
%userprofile%/My Documents/Enso's Learn As Open Commands
I was able to simply run my create_shortcuts.pl in that folder and instantly re-create all my shortcuts as open commands. That includes stuff Enso can’t create with “learn as open”, like:
rundll32.exe Shell32.dll, Control_RunDLL appwiz.cpl
Not bad. Now I’m just awaiting the ability to run Python scripts of my own design on the current selection.
Read more...So, when is that first flight to Mars?
...imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, 'This is an interesting world I find myself in, an interesting hole I find myself in, fits me rather neatly, doesn't it? In fact it fits me staggeringly well, must have been made to have me in it!' This is such a powerful idea that as the sun rises in the sky and the air heats up and as, gradually, the puddle gets smaller and smaller, it's still frantically hanging on to the notion that everything's going to be alright, because this world was meant to have him in it, was built to have him in it; so the moment he disappears catches him rather by surprise. I think this may be something we need to be on the watch out for.
-Douglas Adams
It hadn’t occurred to me previously, but… Perhaps the reason there’s so little support for colonization of other planets is that people think a higher power will save them from that catastrophic asteroid.
Read more...Enso...
Ever since using the late Jef Raskin’s The Humane Environment, I’ve been using the Windows Run menu, my “cb” (read/write clipboard) utility, and a few other scripts to do a sad, modal approximation of the THE command quasimode.
cb | less
cb | wc | less
cb | upper_case | cb
web humanized.com
Well, it looks like Enso is about to replace all that. It’s out, it’s $20, and I just ordered it straight away after watching the demo video. We’ll see soon whether I regret that decision.
Read more...The chain of events this morning:
- Realized I needed to get trash to curb.
- Went to move car so I could roll huge bin out of packed garage.
- Car fails to start, or in fact do anything.
- Recalled I was told by mechanic 2 months ago battery was failing and needed replacing.
- Hooked battery up to trickle charger.
- Heard garbage truck approaching.
- Realized dog had just escaped through door propped open by trickle charger extension cord, and is racing down street toward approaching garbage truck.
- Pulled Diana's car into drive, opened door, called dog.
- Closed car door with dog inside.
- Realized garbage truck is now one house away.
- Dashed down driveway with garbage bin.
- Ignored glaring garbage collector.
- Pushed empty garbage bin back to house.
- Siezed dog from car, pulled back to house.
- Drove Diana's car to work.