Originally posted Oct 16,2010 We all know about the people who have energy, creativity, talent, and a spark of brilliance but yet they use all that to try to grab our passwords and get into our bank accounts or sell our information for cash. When I was growing up the term “Hacker” meant:
Markdown in TextWrangler on the Mac for free!
Originally written Nov 29, 2010
Did you know you can do Markdown in the excellent and free TextWrangler?
For anyone interested in the Markdown text markup language and doesn’t own Scrivener or doesn’t want to get into the Terminal to convert your text to HTML then here’s a pretty nice thing I found.
- Install Markdown per the instructions at Daring Fireball.
- Install the free TextWrangler from Bare Bones Software.
- Open TextWrangler and select the menu item #! which they call shebang.
- Go down to Unix Filters and click Open Filters Folder.
- Open a new finder window and find the Markdown.pl file you installed in step 1.
- Drag a copy (Option key while dragging) into the Filters Folder.
Now any time you have markdown text inside TextWrangler you can go to the #! menu -> Unix Filters -> Markdown.pl and it will convert your buffer into the appropriate HTML! Just copy and paste it into your blog or web page and you’re ready to go.
As an added bonus you can download SmartyPants, also from Daring Fireball and turn those typewriter quote marks into proper marks.
New Perspectives Versus Computing Notes
I have a blog called New Perspectives which is a collection of thoughts, insights, questions for myself and others and various other writings in the attempt to get a new perspective on our lives.
I tell you this because lately I have been letting computing articles slip into that blog and they don’t quite belong. My solution to this is to start moving those articles to this blog and eventually deleting them from that site.
So, prepare for some fun computing things to start showing up here as I write them!
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Church on Vacation?
Church on Vacation?
If you are vacationing or if you are on a business trip to Key West and the Lower Florida Keys then I’d like to invite you to the church I attend. At Covenant Word Church we have a contemporary worship service and Children’s Church and Pastor Kevin Kerr always seems to have the right word at the right time from God for us. Stop by and feel like family at home in what I consider to be the best of the Key West churches.
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