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Watching the Mariners blow a 1 run lead and lose 3-1 after playing a great defensive game was seriously disappointing. Going into the 8th inning I was thinking that Piniella should probably be going with Sasaki rather than Rhodes. And after Rhodes gave up the tying home run I was really second guessing Piniella. But considering Sasaki gave up the game winning home run that’s pretty much a moot point now.

I have to admit after the Yankees took a 2-0 lead at the beginning of the game and the Mariners struggled for the first four innings I was starting to lose hope. Little did I know that the M’s would break out for 14-3 victory over the Yankees. Hopefully they’ll be able to maintain the momentum going into tomorrow’s game.

Building Web Services with FileMaker Pro is an article I’m going to want to take another look at again once we get FMP 5.5 in place at work.

MacOS X Hints has a very handy hint about GetFileInfo and SetFile, two invaluable utilities included with the 10.1 Developers Tools cd.

I’m feeling really tired considering how early it is. Perhaps I’ll turn in early for a change.

MacOS X Local Security Exploit A serious security exploit has been found in Mac OS X 10.1 (in fact, as it turns out, it has been present in 10.0.x versions as well). Using this exploit any user at the Desktop can gain root access to the machine.

I’ve been exploring BBedit 6.5 some this morning and it seems pretty darn nifty.

One of the first things I checked when I installed last night was whether or not it supported the Command-H hide feature that is standard to all MacOS X applications. Sure enough, after popping up a little one time dialog asking whether I wanted that functionality or the original BBedit functionality, it now behaves as expected.

There are few interesting features that I didn’t come across until I started playing with BBedit. The new PCRE (perl compatible regular expression) based grep functionality is pretty cool, but even better it supports syntax higlighting on your regular expressions. There’s also a really handy feature called Shell Worksheets that allows you to type shell commands from within an editing window much like Apple’s MPW. The bbedit command line tool is even cooler than I’d realized because not only can you open files with it, but you can actually pipe stuff into bbedit with it as well! I’m sure I’ll find even more interesting features as I continue to play with it.

Overall I’d rate BBedit 6.5 a great value for people upgrading from 6.1.

Hey, I just realized that it was lunch time. Guess I’d better warm up my vegetarian lasagna.

The SCOTT eVEST is a pretty nifty vest that has lots of pockets and special channels to run your earphone and microphone wires up to the collar. It’s a little pricey at $119, but a cool idea all the same. I wonder if it will become more common for clothing to have built-in tech compatibility in the future?

I just discovered this morning that BBEdit 6.5 is now available so I quickly placed my online upgrade order. Hopefully I’ll be able to download it later today.

Cool new features that I especially like:
• New! “bbedit” command-line tool: invoke BBEdit from anywhere in the Unix command line to open files
• New! Flexible ‘grep’ style pattern-based search and replace now based on PCRE
• New! Syntax coloring, function navigation, and markup support for CSS (cascading style sheets); this includes contextual markup support via the “Tag Maker” interface.
• New! Direct integration with Mac OS X native Perl environment, as well as Python and unix shell scripts

Two Outs, So What? The Mariners came through with a 3-1 victory this afternoon to propel themselves into the American League Championship Series. Nice work gentlemen!

As my readers may have noticed over the last week there hasn’t been a whole lot of posting going on here at Axodys. But as you read this entry and note the nice (yet recently popular) default layout of Movable Type you’re probably also noticing that there have in fact been several posts over the last week that were previously unavailable. Long story short I’ve been trying out MT over the last week and liking it a lot. As of today I’m jumping in full bore and switching everything over.

Things to note:
• I hope to have a new layout soon, but that is completely a matter of time and motivation with emphasis on the latter.
• The old permalinks are going to break soon. I’m fairly doubtful based on general readership numbers that this is going to significantly matter.
• MT has a lot of power and flexibility, but I’m still figuring some things out.
• I still have to go back and categorize a lot of entries.