Predictions

A month from now, I will be conflicted.

I'll be happy to have spent time with old friends & and glad to have made new ones, but I'll be bummed that it'll be another year before I see most of them again.

I'll have a mind tumbling with new ideas & excitement about what it is that I do for a living, but I'll be unsure what to do with that energy.

I'll have a belly full of Texas BBQ, but it'll be months before the stuff I get 'round these parts tastes right again.

SXSW, here I come!

2008-02-12 00:00:12

Is this thing on?

This is my biennial SXSW post.

That is to say, the previous one was about two years ago.

(I've added nine posts since then, which makes me wonder why I continue to pay my hosting bill - but that's another story for another time.)

Anyway, I'm excited to see my friends again, and fully expect to make new ones, so I'm really looking forward to this year's conference. I've touched base with some folks over the past few weeks, but there are a lot of people I haven't talked to. So, ping me if you're gonna be in Austin from March 9-14.

2007-02-24 00:43:21

CSS Filters and IE7 Beta 3

Thanks to David Major from the IE team for prodding me to update the filter matrix. Here's the changelog:

Newly applied:

• head:first-child+body div
• body>div
• html[xmlns] div

Newly denied:

• * html div
• _property: value;

Thanks David!

2006-07-26 14:45:10

Screenshot to Photoshop with AppleScript

I'm currently working on a project that requires me to produce a ton of screenshots. Even with a Photoshop action set up to prep, export, and close the image, it's still a tedious task.

So, I wrote this AppleScript to automate the whole thing:

do shell script "screencapture -iWc"
  -- Running interactively, starting in window mode.
  -- Spacebar toggles between window & selection.
  -- `man screencapture` for more options.

tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS"
  activate
  make new document with properties ¬
      {width:1024, height:768}
  paste
  trim current document
  do action "screenshot" from "My Actions"
end tell

Saved as an application, it can be run via Quicksilver with less effort than than invoking Panther's OS X's built-in screenshot utility.

2005-11-02 13:29:20