So, one of the things we have been using computers for is to keep track of our lives. And this means a scheduling or calendaring tool. Some tools out there do this fine, and some do it very well.
I have to keep track of a lot of appointments. From conference calls for work, to each member of the family’s schedules, to random, but highly important reminders. Most calendaring programs out there will let you set up a reoccurring event by day of the month, or the date. But, what if you need to do something two days before the end of the month, every month? Or, you need to do something every full moon, but not on the blue moon? Or, you have a standing meeting with your boss every other Monday morning, execpt when Monday is a holiday, then the meeting shifts to Tuesday? Oh, and you want something that you can run over an ssh session, while on your smart phone, or you friend’s smart phone?
The answer is simple: remind. remind can do this, and more. Need to set something up by the Hebrew Calendar? Check. Want your calendar to run a shell command for you on a holiday, specific day of the month, or phase of the moon? Check. Most modern Linux distrobutions include remind nowdays, as it is so darn usefull. In addition, it runs just fine under Solaris, and the BSDs, including MacOS X. If fact, over at 43Folders, they had a whole section their wiki for remind. The wiki has many tips and tricks on how to use remind to its fullest.
In my next post, I will share some tips on how I get remind to remind me of events.
*Edit 2020-04-07: 43Folders.com have removed their wiki, so no more linking
So, it only seems fitting that I should talk about a command-line interface to posting on this blog. No, I do not mean using links (was at links.twibright.com) or the like, but a way to post from the command line.
So, this post is being typed up in vim on my Fedora 8 laptop. I will use this great little tool I found called wppost to post. wwpost is part of the perl module WordPress::Post.
A brief summary of its commands are bellow:
-c category, can be a list separated by commas, no spaces
-t title
-i description, main body of post, if it has a slash, it is interpreted as a file to slurp
like a text or html file
-D iso formatted date for post, can be left out
-T if there are image attachments, place them as thumbnails only, with link, not just resized
Some usage examples taken from the man page:
Most basic of usage, (provided you have a ~/.wppost file)
wppost -t 'hi everyone' -i 'i just wanted to say hello'
If you want to specify two different categories:
wppost -t 'Another Apple' -i 'Apples are really great. I do love them so.' -c food,rant -D 20071231
If the body of the post is in a file
wppost -t 'title here' -i ./content.txt
If the content of the post is in a file and you want to use the file
name as the title
wppost -i ./Title_Here.txt
If you want to have file attachments:
wppost -t 'recent photos' -i 'these are recent pictures i took' ./*jpg
Pretty cool, huh?
Peace out!
You are tired of hearing your GUI friends talking about their games? Tired of playing simple Adventure? Why not try Pacman for Console (was at doctormike.googlepages.com/pacman.html)?
The game play is just like the old quarter game you played long ago, and the best part, you can develop your own maps!