Scripting Access to America First Credit Union

Here’s a little script I thought might be useful for others out there. I run it each morning using a cron job. It logs in to my account at America First Credit Union and sends me a summary of recent account activity. (You’ll need to change some of the variables if you decide to use [...]

Automatically downloading ACID 8-Packs

Here’s a little perl script I use to automatically snag those handy (& free) ACID loops each week. This will determine the name of the current 8Pack, download it, extract it, and delete the zip file–leaving you with a nice folder including the ACID project and the loops. Then, just run it each week [...]

No More Waiting

Am I the only one who spends most of his life waiting? I remember waiting to be done with high school…then college. I also waited for just the right girl to come along so we could be married. I guess I’ve always thought I’d be done waiting someday…then things will start to happen. I’m realizing [...]

“clear:both” My new best friend

This is probably not the most interesting post in the world, but I need to write it so I don’t forget it. I spent most of the day trying to get an HTML div tag to stretch its height to fit its contents. Sounds easy–right?
Well, it turns out, that if the div contains other [...]

Cooking vs. Coding

Jason at 37Signals wrote about giving away your cookbook. This intrigued me for a number of reasons.
I noticed a correlation between geeks and high-quality food over a year ago. This post reinforces the notion that today’s computer geeks appreciate good cooking. (Otherwise, why would Jason and the responders even care to make the analogy?) Many [...]

Fedora 7 – First Impression

Fedora 7 was officially released last week. I had a chance to install it on my main desktop machine at home over the weekend. I haven’t had a chance to dig in a lot, but so far it seems a lot like the last version.
The main difference I’ve seen so far is the presence of [...]