1. The band room complete with drums
2. Drinking cheap/bad coffee from the coffee machine every morning
3. Working out at the gym
4. Living by the ocean
5. The podium with its resort like feel
6. Having a super nice land lord
7. Living with cats
8. My office
9. Amazing sunsets every night
10. Building a new home with Anna <3

I was looking up papers Google Scholar related to quantum evolution recently, randomly inspired by watching the movie Creation.

Anyway, it made me wonder if my paper from uni was on there and it is!

• Google Scholar Link
• Downloadable PDF
• Original IEEE Publication

I was wanting to find all the Photos in my iPhoto 2011 library that didn’t have a place assigned, so I could assign a place to them. There wasn’t a filter option that would directly detect if a place was blank. Then I realised I could check for every single letter in the alphabet to see if the place didn’t contain them, but a Smart Album is only allow 10 filters, not the 26. Then I realised almost every place name will contain a vowel, so I could just check for the 5 vowels. If you want to do this your self, make sure you select “Match all of the following conditions”:

Update:
I later realised you could do this for a similar affect using the GPS tag, although its not quite the same because if a photo has a place assigned but wasn’t tagged with GPS it will still appear in this filter:

I am a Christian
I believe in Jesus
And I believe Jesus is the way
And I believe in heaven and I believe in hell
And I believe the Bible is God’s word
And I’m not a universalist because I believe God’s love is so great, God lets you decide

I believe in the community of the saints
I believe the Church is the fullness
I believe in the new heaven and the new earth
I believe in healing
I believe in miracles
I believe in salvation
I believe in the power of prayer
I believe that God is alive and working
I believe that there’s been a resurrection, and there’s a whole new creation bursting forth right here in the midst of this one
-Rob Bell

1) Custom Sidebar Icons
I had linked my “~/Movies” directory to a directory on my second hard drive (I have an SSD + 1TB 12.5mm in my 13″ MacBook Pro). However this removes the special icons OSX will show for folders like “Movies”, “Documents”, etc. if you drag them to Finder’s sidebar.

I found out that the sidebar icons are kept track of in “~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.sidebarlists.plist”. However it gets overwritten from cache when you log out, meaning you can’t edit it while you’re logged in. I was able to copy and paste in the icon information from the file of a second user when logged in as the second user or by using ssh when the original user wasn’t logged in.

2) Forcing Google Contact Sync
I found this through a combination of searching on google, and running “Sync Now” from the iSync.app menu item while doing a “ps -ef | grep google”.


/System/Library/PrivateFrameworks/GoogleContactSync.framework/Versions/A/Resources/gconsync --oneshot --sync com.google.ContactSync --entitynames com.apple.contacts.Contact,com.apple.contacts.Email Address,com.apple.contacts.IM,com.apple.contacts.Phone Number,com.apple.contacts.Street Address

3) Toggle File Invisibility
I’ve created an AppleScript app that you can drag to your Finder toolbar to toggle file visibility. It requires Xcode to be installed and will make files visible or invisible, but you’ll need something like Total Finder in order to be able to view hidden files to make them visible.

Been so busy since I proposed Christmas Eve last year, that I haven’t blogged anything about it yet But anyway so happy to be getting married to my wonderful Anna!

We launched are website, a little wordpress, some google docs and some paypal to make something that has made things much easier. People (Stacey, Jan, Mum, Andrew/Irene) have been so helpful so far, because we’re trying to make / decorate as much stuff ourselves as possible to save money.

Another really nice surprise was Total Finder. I’ve blogged before about how I use it for adding Tabs and Cut/Paste to Finder on OSX. I emailed the creator asking to see if they did discounts so I could install it for Anna as well, and he gave me a copy for free! Goes a bit to restoring my faith in people and made Anna and I both smile :) Be sure to check out Total Finder, this should have been built in to OSX!

My cousin has launched a personalised greetings card site. If you’re in the UK be sure to check out diddyfeet.com

This was from the official Apple iTunes Connect app :-P

This is a really random post, but like the MySQL Bit post, it took me ages to find the right information on the internet, so thought I would blog it. I wondered if it was possible to run the 24″/27″ Apple LED Cinema Display which only have a DisplayPort input with a PC that normally only have a VGA or DVI adaptor. I’ve realised it is using these adaptors:

http://www.atlona.com/Atlona-DVI-to-Mini-DisplayPort-Converter-p-17859.html

http://www.atlona.com/Atlona-Dual-Link-DVI-to-Mini-DisplayPort-Converter-USB-Powered.html

However the caveats are:

• - VGA only supports up to 2048×1533 and I’m not sure if the above will take a VGA signal to DVI
• - The first model which is DVI only supports up to 1920×1200
• - The second model which supports the full 2560×1440 of the 27″ required a Dual Link DVI, which as few PCs have as have as a DisplayPort adaptor

Long and short of it is, if you really want to from a laptop you’ll get low resolution at best, from a desktop your best bet is to buy a graphics card with a DisplayPort adaptor output, or better yet get a mac. I think part of the reason for DisplayPort over VGA/DVI and even HDMI is the higher resolution.

Christian holiness is not, as people often imagine, a matter of denying something good. It is about growing up and grasping something even better.

Made for spirituality we wallow in introspection.
Made for joy we settle for pleasure.
Made for justice we clamor for vengeance.
Made for relationship we insist on our own way.
Made for beauty we are satisfied with sentiment.

But, new creation has already begun, the sun has begun to rise. Christians are called to leave behind in the tomb of Jesus Christ, all that belongs to the brokenness and incompleteness of the present world. It is time in the power of the Spirit, to take up our proper role, our fully human role, as agents, heralds and stewards of the new day that is dawning. That, quite simply, is what it means to be Christian. To follow Jesus Christ into the new world, God’s new world, which he has thrown open before us.