I often end up connecting to public wifi networks that have a "click to accept" in order to get real network connectivity. It’s fine on my Android and […]
Simpe BASH wrapper script to test if you’re online or not
This falls squarely in the “small annoyances” category. More and more wifi hotspots will let you connect – but not access anything until you log in. Sometimes, I […]
Get external IP address at hotspot – with some error checking
In my conky setup, I call a file inet_test. It’s a bash script, made executable and called by conky. The core of it is getting an address from […]
BASH script to turn Remember The Milk’s RSS Feed into plain text for ifttt
I like Remember The Milk. I like IFThisThenThat. But there’s no easy integration. I hoped that maybe I could parse the RSS feed from Remember The Milk so […]
A timer/alarm clock and time-of-day wallpaper changer in BASH
Some days, I have a hard time sleeping. (I experience restless leg syndrome as pain – it is the suxx0rs.) Rather than just whining, I’ve been using the […]
Making New Fortunes (in linux)
Another week, another bash script! One of the things I love about scripting things like this is getting to know what’s really going on inside my computer. I’m […]