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After my epic three-part post on Saturday, I spent the rest of the weekend doing more "useful" things. Now it's Sunday night (Monday morning, I think), and I've got some kind of minor food poisoning w

Natural language date conversion for TextMate

I've been flirting with a plain-text to-do system again. The biggest problem for me is that a plain text system opens up so many possibilities for fiddling and scripting. I always end up fiddling more

Dammit. Again with the Lipsum.

I know, I said I was done with the Lorem Ipsum generators. Then Dr. Drang responded with a brilliant solution which doesn't require Internet access to generate some beautiful dummy text. I set it up a

SMS from the command line with Google Voice

I needed a script send an SMS today, and I found a very handy post at sudocode to send one via Google Voice, using PHP. I wanted to make it a little more command-line-friendly, so I rewrote it (ham-ha

TextExpander: bit.ly with authentication

A quick script in response to Donald's query on my TextExpander Experiments post. He wanted to know if I could make the bit.ly script—which expands to a bit.ly-shortened version of a url in the

Updated: Songza Lucky Link Service

Songza.fm has moved to Songza.org, so I've rewritten the old Songza Lucky Link Service for Snow Leopard to match. This new version of the service runs without dependencies, so it should work for any S

A better System Service for Evernote clipping - with MultiMarkdown

Update: If you're looking for a Markdown -> Evernote, check this out.

Another post, quickly and with less explanation...

The fact that Evernote processes HTML so much better than it does plain or ri

A (fairly) simple equation evaluation service for Snow Leopard

Download the Evaluate Expression Snow Leopard service: EvaluateExpressionService.zip

This is a stripped down version of a command I have in the TextMate bundle we use at TUAW. It allows you to select