After a lot of scouring the net I finally stumbled upon a theme I liked at ThemeForest (affiliate link) today. Clearly I still have to customise the header image. I also installed the WPtouch plugin, which presents a version of the site optimised for iPhone and iPod touch when viewed on these devices.
Update: My friend Sandra helped me out with fixing the logo. I think it looks great.
Following Nick Kreeger’s handy post on tweaking MacVim on Mac OS X I applied some of the tips to GVim under Windows to make it a little easier on the eye. The following settings are placed in your _vimrc/.vimrc file.
First up is a change of font. With the introduction of Windows Vista Microsoft had a set of new standard fonts created. These also ship with the latest versions of Office. The Consolas monospaced font makes a good programmers font so I this as the font when running under Windows. I’ve also set the size to be relatively small.
if has("gui_win32")
:set guifont=Consolas:h8,ProggyTiny:h8,Luxi_Mono:h12:cANSI
endif
In order to cope with having to use Windows at work I run Cygwin. My shell of choice is zsh. For whatever reason the Cygwin package of zsh installs with a serious of directories that the zsh completion system deems to be insecure and it makes sure you know this. Each time a new shell is opened (in my case through a Windows native rxvt terminal) I would receive the following warning:
Ignore insecure directories and continue [ny]?
Pressing ‘y’ becomes a bit tedious after a while so I decided to track down these insecure directories and fix them.
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I’ve recently upgraded from a Power Mac G5 to a Mac Pro. Since this upgrade also includes a switch of processor architecture I’ve been making a point of re-downloading all the apps I use, instead of just copying them from the old Mac. I’m doing this for two reasons. Firstly it ensures the apps are all up to date1 and secondly I ran Xslimmer over a lot of apps on the G5, which removed the Intel binary from Universal apps.
This process has made me somewhat aware of a few apps that have seen little or no updates in quite a while. For some reason I have an expectation that applications will see periodic updates, say every six months or less. This expectation seems to stem from the fact I’ve paid for all these apps, which seems to bring with it some expectation of updates. Whether or not this expectation is justified or not is certainly up for debate. I clearly purchased a tool at some point and it performs its job fine, so I got what I paid for. I guess the expectation comes from not wanting to think you’ve bought abandon-ware and that software is one of those things that tends to continually evolve.
In some cases I think the authors of the software fuel these expectations by explicitly indicating that there will be future development or by implying there will be updates. The following are some examples of what I’m talking about:
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