Category Archives: Macintosh

Ashura 360: a new Buddhist iPhone app

Despite working in the IT industry, I usually don’t like gadgets and new things, however I do own an iPhone since moving back to the US, and have become pretty addicted to it.1 Having a portable device that lets me … Continue reading

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Web, Japanese and UTF8

Getting Japanese text to work on a webpage was something that came up recently at work, so I felt inspired to touch on the subject briefly. This piece is a bit more techinical than other posts, but on the other … Continue reading

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Part 2: Technical Japanese I wish I had known sooner

This is part two of what might be an ongoing series. As I mentioned in the last post, while studying Japanese on Japanesepod101.com I have been learning technical Japanese more and more, which is helpful for someone like me in … Continue reading

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Teaching your Mac Japanese

I got this idea from another website, which explained the many silly ways you can make your Mac talk using the say command. After a lot of trial and error one evening after work,* I came up with this tribute … Continue reading

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Total Annihilation on Mac OS X

Five years ago I would have laughed at the idea, but now I am happy to say that I am running the classic PC game, Total Annihilation, on my Mac OS X: This is a screenshot of my Mac running … Continue reading

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Weekend fun with Sun Virtual Box

On advice from a colleague at work, I decided to play around with Sun’s free application, Virtual Box, on my Mac at home: This is a screenshot of my computer at home (Mac OS X 10.5) running a virtual copy … Continue reading

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Here, there, everywhere

Busy, busy weekend folks. I spent Saturday at my Grandma’s house setting up her new computer: a Mac Mini. I recently purchased a new Mac Mini, and decided that grandma could use one too, so I reinstalled a fresh copy … Continue reading

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New Mac Mini for home

This weekend, my wife and I received a kind donation from the U.S. Government, or as we call it “Uncle Bush’s Money”. We promptly saved it in our savings account for about two days before we decided to spend it … Continue reading

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Efficient duplication searching in UNIX and Perl

I wanted to post this for a few days, but haven’t had an opportunity to, given a lack of time and more “pressing” blog posts. Anyways, recently at work, I had a task where I had two text files, A … Continue reading

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