OMB

I just heard about Geek Tool, a nice little app for Mac OS X that will output a local text file, standard out or a local or remote web page onto your desktop. Its kind of like Conky on acid. So what have I done with the world of possibilities that this app presents and my all too short lunch hour? See for yourself:

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I have a few windows that output some shell commands, then two images that Geek Tool grabs from the web, one of the left from BlairClock, which counts down the days until Blair’s expected leaving date and another from OSM’s image of the week. The saving you from terrorism bit comes next. I grabbed a feed from the Terror Alert website, ran it through a ruby script that outputs to stdout and bingo! Live terrorist information on my desktop. Now all I need is for the guys at Terror Alert to update their feed and I will be safe from the threat of International Terrorism.

(If anyone can suggest why my script won’t read the dates from the feed when it runs on my Mac, but will on Ubuntu, that would really make my day.)