After only being able to do a single one-legged medicine ball burpee last week, I was able to do 12 last night. Here’s the trick:

In this post I’ll show you how I added tag clouds to my Octopress blog.

There have been times when I’ve had to extract a particular column from a tab-separated or comma-separated file. The best way to do this is to use the shell command cut. Let’s say I have a file named input.txt that looks like this:

In my last post I wrote that I followed some instructions to exclude myself from Google Analytics’ reports on my Octopress blog. There was an error in the Javascript that was preventing the required cookie from being set. Here’s what I did that finally worked:

Over this past weekend I switched my blog over from WordPress to Octopress. In this post I write about why I did it, what exactly I did to get the blog just the way I wanted, and what I plan to do in the future.

[Another in my series of posts on Vim]

If you’re writing natural language text you may wish to format your paragraph so that the text wraps before lines get too long. Here’s how you do it:

To set the maximum width of a line of text, go to Normal mode and enter

:set textwidth=72

In a previous blog post we learned what a histogram is.  In today’s post we’ll see how to use histograms to help take properly-exposed photographs.  If you haven’t read the previous post, or are not familiar with histograms, I would recommend you read that post before continuing with this one.

Jessica Hische has just published a very well written article on “why it’s ok to copy people to learn, but never ok to publish that work.”  I love the tone of her writing.  Even though I’m not a designer and won’t ever be as good a letterer as she is, I hope to be able to write as well as her.

[Another in my series of posts on Vim]

Sometimes when you’re typing natural language text, you find yourself wanting to rephrase the sentence you’ve written so far.  You could hit backspace many times to delete the characters to the left of the cursor, or you could type Ctrl-W.  When you’re in Insert mode, Ctrl-W will delete from the cursor to the beginning of the previous word.