Gedit is not a perfect editor. Making it a little better is easy. One of the best features of Gedit: plugins.

* Auto Completion Plugin – Auto complete words.
* Scripting Plugin – Execute scripts using the script defined interpreter.
* File Browser Pane – This built-in plugin makes jumping from file to file much easier.
* Snippets Plugin – Enabling the built-in snippets plugin allows tab expansion of language specific keywords to help save keystrokes.
* Darkmate Theme – The darkmate theme approximates textmate’s dark theme.

I should note that I use MacOS at home and Linux at work, the theme and plugins above are meant to approximate TextMate. I own a copy of TextMate and I think it’s one of the best text editors I’ve ever used.

Merge/Diff

Another editing application with potential for Gedit integration is called Meld. Meld is a graphical diff and merge tool. Sometimes regular old diff can get you down, especially if you’re looking at lots of similar looking text. If you need some visual cues to make spotting differences easier Meld is a good tool for the job.

The best sandwich is the california club at Jasons. Period.

Toyota recently announced plug-in hybrid cars by 2010. While this is a good thing I would like to suggest an alternate solution. I have a few simple requirements.

- All electric.
- 200 mile range at reasonable speeds, 60Mph.
- Competitive pricing.

Get right on that automakers.

ZFS read and write support has been included in the forthcoming Mac OS X Server. An announcement that in all the iPhone news went seemingly unnoticed.

Snow Leopard Server
>For business-critical server deployments, Snow Leopard Server adds read and write support for the high-performance, 128-bit ZFS file system, which includes advanced features such as storage pooling, data redundancy, automatic error correction, dynamic volume expansion, and snapshots.

While ZFS exists other places like FreeBSD, OpenSolaris etc, it’s good to see a commercial product include support for one of the cooler things to come out of Sun. If you want to see how to take advantage of ZFS check out the links below, it’s pretty much the same on every operating system excepting what the os calls your physical disks.

ZFS Basics – A look at ZFS from the OpenSolaris community.
ZFS Quickstart Guide – FreeBSD and ZFS.
ZFS on FUSE – Linux and ZFS.

I guess I’m an adult now, I just got my cholesterol checked at the doctor. I’m sure there are other qualifiers for this kind of event, but for me, having awareness of something I was previously never concerned about is a milestone. Apparently, everyone age 20 and older should have their cholesterol levels checked at least once every 5 years. So if you haven’t done it, consider this a reminder.