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I finally got around to posting up a compilation of flickr photos by some of the cool peeps who attended 'Rails Camp 07' at Somersby. Organised by Ben Askins, co-organised by Lachie Cox, Tim Lucas and moi; catered by Karen Askins and Sue-Lin Tin; donations by Jeremy Bogan and Matt Allen; presented by and attended by a sub-selection of great rails peeps - this camp rocked out.

Check out the viddler vid (and 382193890 tags!) for more info!

Backing up "is a good thing". A few friends sent around the link to sqlite3 command to compact a mailbox:

/usr/bin/sqlite3 ~/Library/Mail/Envelope\ Index vacuum index;

I wanted to take it to the next level, so I wrapped some other smarts around it: basically, check to see if Mail was running, shut it down if it was, run the script, the fire up mail when finished.

Of course - it doesn't check to see if I've got a compose window open but I'm secretly hoping I'm not awake and writing email at 1:30am in the morning (when my backup kicks off)

Here is the entire script - download it at your peril

I have it in the following directory:

~/Library/Application Support/SuperDuper!/Copy Scripts/Pre and Post Scripts