Category Archives: lifehacking

I found a site that has free mp3′s of whitenoise. Download one, then in the shell mplayer -loop 0 foo.mp3 That will loop over and over forever. The only problem so far is when the file starts over there is … Continue reading →

I couldn’t seem to find in the admin section how to mass close posts for commenting. When spam gets past Akismet it’s usually for a really old post. So I looked in the database and made the change by hand … Continue reading →

I wrote a command line ToDo list manager in ruby this morning. It’s not feature complete and it’s not uber robust. It’s for small ToDo lists. You can get it here if you like. sudo cp taskr.rb /usr/bin/taskr taskr -h … Continue reading →

I buy those cheap battery powered toothbrushes, and they are great, make my teeth nice and clean, but they have a serious design flaw. Namely, once the batteries die, it’s really tough to get them back together after changing the … Continue reading →

I use my shell to take quick notes I don’t want to forget. Like a phone number or an address, so I can look them up later. I first make sure I have a long bash_history (in ~/.bashrc): HISTSIZE=1500 HISTFILESIZE=1500 … Continue reading →

Lifehack: I know it’s a little trashy to do, but I put an old beat up exercize bike on my sidewalk with a free sign on it. Someone took it! w00t. Now, I need to find other things in here … Continue reading →