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BBEdit 6.5.2 fixes bugs in HTML editor [MacNN]

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Last night I was really out of it at times. I didn’t feel particularly tired, but perhaps I was mentally fatigued. My first annoying blunder of the night was packing up my laptop and leaving work without my power adaptor. However, that little misstep completely pales next to what I did after I got home.

At just after 7 PM I was starting to get hungry so I decided to pop in a DiGiorno cheese pizza. After the oven and pizza baking stone were ready to go I popped in the pizza and then decided to take out the garbage. I stopped by my desk, grabbed my keys and locked my apartment door behind me. When I came back from my short trip down the hall to the garbage can and pulled out my keys I realized to my horror that I had grabbed my work keys. I was now locked out of the apartment with a pizza in the oven and my wife and our other set of keys clear across town at her parents.

Dumber still, I spent the next half hour stewing and trying to figure out a way to get back in without going to the maintenance guys. In the end, when it was clear that Mary was probably not going to be getting home anytime soon, I went to them and they let me back in with no problem whatsoever. For some reason I had visions of having to pay $50 fines and it being a big hastle which wasn’t the case at all. The pizza was pretty well burned by the time I got to it though so I had to settle for chili instead. Sad.

Gonzaga hits crossroads is a great article about the GU basketball team and the University as a whole in today’s edition of USA-Today.

The article also spends quite a bit of time on the impact of the recent leukemia diagnosis of Father Tony Lehmann, Gonzaga’s beloved alumni chaplain and longtime fixture on the bench during basketball games. Father Tony’s illness has a lot of resonance for me because of my dad’s own battle with and eventual defeat at the hands of cancer. In fact now that I think about it, it’s just a few days past exactly two years since my father was first diagnosed with colon cancer. While there are many valuable lessons about life to be learned in situations like these, I wish they didn’t have to come at the expense of those we love.

Reason 7,326 that I think my wife is wonderful: Tonight when I got home from work she surprised me with a copy of Tron 20th Aniversary Edition DVD. I’m really looking forward to watching it later this week.

Cursed Sub?

Navy sub, transport ship collide in Oman. Sub involved in Hawaii incident, USS Greeneville, clips vessel in Oman; no injuries. [USA Today : Front Page]

I hadn’t heard the story of the Greeneville grounding shortly after coming out of drydock for $2,000,000 repairs and the new captain losing his command over that incident. Now add this collision and you’ve got a series of very strange coincidences. Hopefully no one will lose their job this time around.

A Glove That Speaks Volumes. A teenager has turned a golf glove into a tool that can translate American Sign Language into text. Want to know more? Talk to the hand. [Wired News]

This is a really clever invention, but the coolest thing to me is that a teenager came up with the device. Once it gets developed beyond finger spelling to full ASL recognition it’ll be an incredibly powerful input device.

Robot toys are tops. The annual Toy Fair in London sees Lego-made Bionicles scoop top award. [BBC News: sci/tech]

Here in the U.S. I’ve seen various smaller Bionicles kits and games from Lego, but I didn’t realize they had remote control stuff out. Cool!

I watched a lot of football today. And both teams I was rooting for won for a change.

I was fairly excited to see fellow WSU alum Drew Bledsoe get a chance to bail out his team after a season of standing on the sidelines. Now New England has a really interesting QB situation going into the Super Bowl.

I’d like to see New England trade Bledsoe to Washington after the season because I think Coach Spurrier and Bledsoe could be a completely awesome combination. But then maybe the Patriots will come to their senses after next weekend and trade Brady instead. You’d hate to see Boston fans end up with yet another cursed franchise. Of course regardless of which QB they go with in the end I can totally see the decision coming back to haunt them.

Bledsoe stuff aside, I was really happy to see St. Louis pull out the victory against a gutty Philadelphia team. Jeff Robinson, fellow Ferris H.S. alum and one of my dad’s former players, plays tight end for the Rams so I’ve been pulling for them for the last couple years. It’s totally cool to have John Madden mention Jeff’s name a few times every time he covers a Rams game.

Mary and I are watching Dr. No at the moment. I’ve never seen it before today. According to imdb it’s the first James Bond movie. There are actually a ton of old James Bond movies that I haven’t had a chance to see yet. I’m going to have to change that down the road here.

Mac OS X Specific Tips and How Tos has a bunch of really useful information on tweaking and configuring your system. [via Bump]