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• @cdtdelta Do people still do that? i haven't heard of that voodoo approach to fixing issues since OS9. What do you mean by screen lock? @ 2:05 pm

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• Babies original due date: today! Is he coming? No, not likely. But ... Any day now. Any day now... @ 10:37 am

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• Give the third degree to a pediatrician, and a few days later become completely incapacitated with the flu. Coincidence? I think not! @ 12:09 pm

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• Sending a little bump. I could use the cash and/or the space in my closet. Still got lots of other recording gear to get through, though. @ 7:24 pm

• Drat, the person who expressed interest in my guitar seems to have dropped off the face of the earth. Or into a spam filter. shrug. @ 7:18 pm

• @nperez ++ beat me to it. :) @ 1:27 pm

• Definitely to keep: http://tinyurl.com/2hy9z8 and likely http://tinyurl.com/2gaj7y . Can live without (I think): http://tinyurl.com/2zhhdk @ 10:38 am

• And do I really need 3 Ibanez Jems? My head says "no", but my gut says "YES, YES, YES!" @ 10:06 am

• (Composing updates with more than a simple thought so they fit within 140 characters sometimes reminds me of crafting a haiku.) @ 9:56 am

• ... meanwhile I've already had the first ping of interest from someone about my guitar. Hooray! Next to sell, my older recording gear. @ 9:55 am

• @petdance I dunno, I've never had a ton of luck with selling stuff on ebay, especially locally.
  And I don't feel like dealing with the fees. @ 9:46 am

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• trying to figure out exactly what model my ibanez 7 string is so i can sell it on craigslist and not ask too much for it. @ 7:16 pm

• @jshirley Speaking from ignorance, but I'm more than happy with my 15" MBP. It does get warm, but I use an inexpensive plastic platform. @ 11:41 am

• @nperez ITYM butcher @ 9:59 am

• @joshmcadams I'll second that vote for GD::Graph. Unless there's some other kind of chart you're talking about. @ 12:58 am

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• @geoffeg I've read that before. I didn't recall reading about multiple vaccinations. I really feel for Deven after having read that. @ 2:44 pm

• @geoffeg Like the discussion here: http://tinyurl.com/2mys3v - is it primarily people worried about barbarism? Cruelty? @ 1:32 pm

• @sungo Yeah, there's a number of things I know I wouldn't've really wanted when I was new to the world. But, them's the breaks, sometimes. @ 1:27 pm

• @geoffeg Have any good links to stories, or are you just trying to make me freak out more? :) @ 1:19 pm

• Soon to be freaking out parent giving potential doctors the third degree: 1. Potential pediatrician: 0. I had her cowering in a corner. @ 1:14 pm

• So, I'm interviewing pediatricians today for the impending arrival of the heir to my empire. What does one ask of these doctors? @ 10:30 am

• @sartak Jott's pretty cool, huh? @ 10:30 am

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So, being able to use autocomplete in vim saved me a load of typing last night, though I suppose it still wore out my pinky hitting 'tab'.

Do you prefer spaces to indent your code?

Have no reason to ever insert a tab into your source?

Enter vim's autocomplete a la bash style tab completion.

inoremap <tab> <c-n>

While you're editing, if you want to enter a symbol that already exists in the file, type the first few characters and hit tab. If there's only one match, it gets autocompleted. If there are more, vim (at least version 7, maybe earlier versions) will display a drop-down with all potential autocomplete words. Use the tab or arrow keys to highlight your desired match, then keep typing.

You might also want to change the color(s) of the drop down menu. This is handled with the following highlight group:

highlight Pmenu ctermfg=1 ctermbg=4 guibg=grey30

You might also not want to use the tab key, because you're too busy indenting your code with tabs. If this is the case, please stop doing that.

Twitter updates:

• Dear vim: your autocomplete makes me swoon. I <3 you. @ 11:43 pm

• @geoffeg I think he had fwoot woops for bwains. @ 11:39 pm

• Dear previous PHP "developer": PHP supports functions and loops. I wish you had learned them. Oh how I wish this. But you did not. Damn you. @ 11:33 pm

• Man, these boxing workouts are kicking me in the hiney. @ 11:03 pm

• @nperez Welcome :) Oh, and good luck. Oh, and don't hurt earth. @ 7:44 pm

• Dear Entourage: stop marking email from people within the company as junk mail. Thank you. Hugs and kisses, Kent. @ 1:53 pm

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So, I'm really bad at blogging.

But it seems I'm OK at microblogging.

Starting tonight, I'll be posting my daily tweets from twitter.

With any luck, I'll be embarrassed by having my only blog postings be from my daily microblogging.

Yeah, right.

I made it my mission this week to teach Spike how to "shake".

I only had to use a few inches from the jar of thinkly sliced snausages™, as you might've noticed from my photos.