Useful ideas from Joe Howard (Firefighter Fitness Formula) for making cheap or free workout gear, including a slosh pipe, tractor tire, Bulgarian training bag, and a medicine ball:

Boot Strap Budget

More, from ReadyMade:

Suspension rings

Medicine ball

Slosh bar/pipe

Just in case you want to know what IP address an SSH client is coming from, or what address they used to log in (such as internal vs. external addresses), the ssh daemon puts a bit of useful stuff in environment variables for you. $SSH_CLIENT and $SSH_CONNECTION are the most useful.

I am working on API docs in Doxygen these days, and using it to produce HTML and PDF docs. The goal is zero post-processing, so I’m getting way too involved in LaTeX to make that happen. Herewith, the reference material I keep coming across in my searches.

Doxygen commands is what it says it is.

Doxymacs is a Doxygen mode for emacs.

Getting Started with TeX, LaTeX, and Friends from the TeX Users’ Group, whose mailing lists have provided a LOT of answers so far. Points to FAQs, online docs, and more.

Doc2PDF has a 2 MB size limit. Worked accurately and insanely quickly tonight when I tried it on a (very small) Publisher file. link

PrimoPDF has a 5 MB size limit. Haven’t tried it yet.

Inkubook

Lulu

Blurb

GE407 gets you 10% off your order, courtesy of GlassyEyes. That’s before shipping, but I just ordered 2 pairs and got $6.95 UPS Next Day Air shipping, which is the price they list for 2nd Day Air…

Inkscape. Draw Freely. (open source vector software)

Scribus. (open source DTP)

Two interesting articles today about resveratrol, a vitamin-type thing found in grapes and red wine, among other sources…

Researchers identify cancer preventive properties in common vitamin supplement

Red wine ingredient wards off effects of age on heart, bones, eyes and muscle

Apparently, the padding you use under hardwood floors (I think they meant laminate ones) is great for padding sewn stuff. I need to look at that stuff at Home Depot and see what’s up!

Two very useful tricks:

defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-edge-delay -float 0.5; killall Dock

(to change the delay, in seconds, between hitting the edge of the screen with a dragged window and moving into the neighboring Screens desktop)

``defaults write com.apple.dock workspaces-wrap-arrows -boolean NO; killall Dock

(toggles whether moving to the next Space wraps around when you get to the last Space; i.e., keep going left and you’ll wind up in the rightmost Space)Â