Back online! Sometimes raising a stink helps. at TedRoden.com

Aug 02

Back online! Sometimes raising a stink helps.

Aug 01

I had to take half a day off of work for Time Warner Cable to come. He came, would not go on the roof to install the cable. Should I cancel?

Ted

Jul 31

“Diet coke is pretty much the bud light of coffee.”

— Peter

Woah! del.icio.us has changed!

Ted

Jul 29

We made it!

Waiting for the movers.

Ted

Jul 25

Moving

Jul 23

“i don’t know if i should throw tomatoes or panties..”

— tessa

Jul 22

For the past couple of months, I’ve been troubled by a missing feature on some software that I’m working on. It’s just unlaunchable until I add it.

So tonight, I sat down to do it, only to discover that I’d implemented it months ago.

Jul 20

Morningwood on Orchard St.

What does it look like when some band comes to your street to melt your face!? A lot like this.

Jul 19

About to see wall-e! Finally!

Ted

Jul 18

It's good to have a phone back, but bad to twitter only two letters.

Ted

Old phones put out to pasture (link)

Jul 17

Love means never having to wait in the iphone line yourself.

Ted

Jul 14

I'm using a loaner phone (N95) while I'm iPhoneless. It really makes me wish the iPhone had real bluetooth support. Bluephone Elite is great

Ted

@jstn Sold my iPhone in preparation for buying a new one... but the apple store wasn't selling anymore today. So tomorrow morning in SoHo...

Ted

Jul 13

I have no iPhone anymore!

Ted

Jul 10

The Smoking Popes - First Time

This is the first real studio release (and a new recording) of a very old song by some old friends of the family. They had a great band, signed to major label, released a couple of really great albums and then broke up in their prime. They’ve gotten back together. I’m so glad this song finally came out. It’s pretty great, if you’re into that sort of thing.

Jul 09

The Poetic Prophet (AKA The SEO Rapper) (via nick)

Google Region

Somehow, this didn't occur to me until today: it would be really great to select some text and enter a key command to search for that text on google. It may have taken me a long time to realize I wanted something like that, but I've used it today more times than I'd like to admit.

Anyways, here's how to make that happen in emacs, complete with a "control-c g" shortcut.

;; google-region
(defun google-region (&optional flags)
  "Google the selected region"
  (interactive)
  (let ((query (buffer-substring (region-beginning) (region-end))))
    (browse-url (concat "http://www.google.com/search?ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&q=" query))))
;; press control-c g to google the selected region
(global-set-key (kbd "C-c g") 'google-region)