Adium Tip
So periodically I tend to go through my buddy list and delete old names of people that haven’t been online in ages, or whom I don’t speak to anymore, or what have you. Since I’m such a pack rat though I don’t like deleting things without keeping copies somewhere (the utility of remembering what names were once on my buddy list eludes me at the moment, but I’m sure it exists).
In any event, I did a bit of searching and came up with nothing helpful. Exporting a buddy list in Adium is an oft-requested, somewhat contemplated, and ultimately unsupported feature. The new version of AIM for Mac apparently omits this feature, although if you were to search you wouldn’t know it.
I ended up installing Pidgin on my Windows 7 tablet, since I already knew you could export your buddy list as XML using that. But only a brief moment of thought resulted in this helpful nugget of wisdom (one that, I had taken advantage of before, I guess, but had forgotten–hence this post):
cp ~/Library/Application\ Support/Adium\ 2.0/Users/Default/libpurple/blist.xml ~/blist-backup.xml
And your backup is now in your home folder.
On an entirely unrelated note, I finally fixed got fixed the problems that were going on behind the scenes. The end result is you need no longer register to post a comment (not that I would expect anyone to do the latter, much less the former). The curious thing is that even though I had “required” registration to post comments, and no one registered an account in the interim, 1,000+ spam comments still managed to get through. I guess WordPress doesn’t really do much in the way of effective checking for such things. Oh well, I guess?
In case you didn’t think I was a geek already
My new Google Voice number is composed of two powers of two. This has the nice effect of making it very easy for me to remember, along with any nerd acquaintances I may share it with.
If that didn’t convince you I’m a geek, how about the fact that I thought this was worth sharing?
Register to Comment
Sorry in advance for the inconvenience, but you need to register if you want to comment now. There’s a firewall blocking my server’s connection to Akismet (the service I use to block spam) and it’s resulting in an innudation of emails. (Thankfully these are “comment moderated” emails, not “comment posted” emails–although on reflection I shouldn’t get any of the latter, and I did get a couple….)
In any event, until the firewall issue is resolved or I find a better way to block spam, that’s the way it is. Not that it matters too much, since I haven’t posted recently. (I have been writing recently, actually, I just haven’t posted. One might argue that sort of defeats the purpose of writing, and they’d probably be right.)
Food Literacy: not the same thing as actual literacy
So HUDS sells this “93 Gallon Canteen” that’s supposed to deter people from using disposable containers, like paper cups or bottled water. I bought one yesterday since I had over 100 bucks still burning a hole in my BoardPlus account, and as any good Harvard student knows BoardPlus is worthless unless you spend it by years’ end. Apparently the Food Literacy Project is also involved in producing these canteens to some degree, since they have their logo stamped on the thing. So I find it particularly amusing–and, well, somewhat embarrassing–that the blurb on the canteen (about how exactly you’re saving 93 gallons of… various things?) reads, in part, like this:
The EPA regulates tap water, ensuring it’s [sic] everyday safety.
“It’s”? “It’s”? Are you kidding me? I think Strong Bad said it best, so I’m just going to leave this one to him.
How to take over the State Senate
Silly Republicans. Didn’t you know you need the majority leader’s permission before you can replace him?
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