OK Sushi

Private chat from Jon_D

Wednesday November 17, 2010 by Cal Wilson in Life

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LEGO™ Ripley

Wednesday October 6, 2010 by Cal Wilson in Life

Ripley ready for action
Originally uploaded by Larry Lars.

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Can’t stop watching

Tuesday March 23, 2010 by Cal Wilson in Life

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Why I spend my time on IRC

Tuesday December 15, 2009 by Cal Wilson in Life

Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch!

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Embedding your Twitter timeline on your desktop

Monday August 18, 2008 by Cal Wilson in Life

Since I moved full-time to my new (shiny, beautiful) MacBook Pro, I have been tinkering with various solutions to my Twitter problem. I want to be able to update whenever I want, but I don’t want visual alerts that people I am following have posted. I would, however, like to have my timeline somewhere easy-to-see, so I don’t forget about it. Sound confusing? Perhaps.

So I came up with a quick and dirty solution to embed my Twitter timeline to my desktop.

1. Download and install the Twitter gem for Ruby – a great little tool that allows you to use Twitter via the command line
2. Download and install the GeekTool – a neat little app that allows you to embed the results of a shell action, files or pictures on your desktop
3. Create a new console in GeekTool (of type Shell) with the following command:

   /usr/local/bin/twitter timeline

4. Style accordingly

Enjoy

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