Don’t let that title fool you. I love version control and use it for almost everything—I even tried to use it for my user directories. But today I ran into a little problem…

I saw a post on Wolfs Little Store today called Version Control and You and wondered why he found this little command useful:

Remove all .svn files from a given directory:

find . -type d -name '.svn' -print0 | xargs -0 rm -rdf

I thought to myself, “Seriously? Is he joking? Just use svn export to get rid of everything.” And then, just a few minutes ago, I tried to empty my trash.

I kept getting a warning that I could not empty trash because [item] was locked. There were hundreds of locked items. I tried to do a little sudo rm * -r action on that. No go.

Then I realized what one great use of that command from Wolf’s would be. I ran that and saw immediate results to my satisfaction. It seems that I still have a bit to learn. Hopefully this helps you all at some point as well.

Until operating systems and web browsers are resolution-independent, pixels will still be king. I started pushing pixels when I was in the 6^th grade, making icons and cursors for the Mac OS. This was back in the days of 640x480 screen resolutions. Ah the good old days.

I never thought that having a broken digital camera could actually make me feel lucky, but when my Sony DSC-F717 crapped out on me last year, I found out how to make the best out of a bad situation.

I'm very pleased to be able to announce the Grand Opening of Watermelon Sauce's first creation: Scribbls, a collaborative drawing community designed to combine drawings into outcomes—no talent required.

On Monday, I attended MinneWebCon ’08 at my alma mater, the University of Minnesota. While I will admit to not being one that really goes out of my way to attend conferences, this one didn’t disappoint.