Every wanted to find just the right ampersand? Or question mark? Checking it against every font in your system manually would be a pain. Font Book doesn't have the font sampler feature you need to do this. But the problem can be solved with ... AppleScript: tell application "TextEdit" make new document at the …
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Shocking, isn’t it? The folks at Enterprise Rent-a-Car in Nashville (BNA) were so polite and efficient, I wrote them a nice thank-you letter. My coworker Pete suggested I have a little fun: give them a copy of the Hertz letter to laugh over. So I did. I also gave Hertz a copy of the Enterprise …
by Caroline Rioux. Bowl 1 1/2 cup flour 3/4 cup whole wheat flour 1 teaspoon baking power 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon 1/2 teaspoon baking soda Bowl 2 1 cup soy milk 1/3 cup oats 1/2 cup oat bran 1/4 cup maple sugar 2 tablespoon oil 1/3 cup apple sauce Set aside 1 1/2 cup apples, shredded …
Last fall, when I was in Chicago, I was treated incredibly rudely at the Hertz location at O’Hare. (This is not the first time I’ve had a poor rental experience.) As soon as I walked up to the counter, the agent said “Don’t give me any attitude.†Before I had said anything. He had taken …
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Recently, I came across some streaming video that was only available to Canadians. Being a Canadian in the US, I felt somewhat entitled. Yes: I wanted to watch a hockey game. I knew I could do this with an SSH tunnel. I just wasn’t sure how. There are lots of pages explaining how to set …
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If you want to give a user permissions to back up a MySQL database, what do you do? The MySQL GRANT page didn’t tell me. Searching wasn’t helpful. Here’s the answer, in the hopes it will help others: SELECT and LOCK TABLES. mysql> grant select, lock tables on foo.* to bar@localhost indentified by ‘ugh’; mysql> …
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