Christi Toa

Ingrid Michaelson – Sort Of

Christi — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:02:44 +0000

Currently addicted to this song:

Theme update

Christi — Mon, 08 Mar 2010 06:27:57 +0000

Found a site on one of my rss feeds flavors.me and really like the concept that they have.

Hence, updated the theme on my site (shamelessly copied the idea) but did learn some cool new tricks while doing so. (Notice the background image automatically stretches while maintaining its aspect ratio on different browser sizes on the homepage).

Skewed in motion

Christi — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 02:09:12 +0000

Sorry for the choppiness. Recorded using my iPhone 3G.

The actuarial science club is now unofficially an aerobic workout club too!

Yep, we’re skewed

Christi — Tue, 23 Feb 2010 01:08:28 +0000

Full gallery here.

Auto mount drives on Leopard with AppleScript

Christi — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 23:55:26 +0000

tell application "Finder"
	if exists disk "Shared_Vol" then
	else
		mount volume "afp://user@myserver.com/Shared_Vol"
	end if
	if exists disk "input" then
	else
		mount volume "smb://user:passw0rd@mywindowsbox.com/input"
	end if
end tell

To run it from command line or crontab:

osascript theAppleScript.scpt

Choice

Christi — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 17:42:08 +0000

2009 Europe Vacation – London

Christi — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 05:27:24 +0000

On my current mission on finishing up my backlog of pictures:

Our first stop in Europe! We spent the majority of our time in London, but we made way to see some other places like Stonehenge and Bath. Tips for people going to London: I brought my iPhone there, got a vodaphone prepaid simcard, and had free unlimited data plan. Was extremely helpful to get around in London!

Full gallery here.

Expect to the rescue!

Christi — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 07:02:39 +0000

When you can’t pipe an input file to automate a process, especially when you need to enter a password such as ftp-ing to some server e.g.:

ftp user@ftp.myhost.com < myFTPCommands.txt

The above fails when ftp asks for a password. This is where expect comes to the rescue! e.g.:

#myExpectFile.exp

#Disable's expect's default 10 seconds timeout
set timeout -1

spawn ftp user@ftp.myhost.com
expect "password:"
send "mySoSecuredPassword\r"
expect "ftp>"
send "get someFileFromFTP.txt\r"
expect "ftp>"
send "put someFileFromLocalhost.txt\r"
expect "ftp>"
send "quit\r"

Save the file and then try running it:

expect myExpectFile.exp

Magic happens!

Aperture 3 Released!

Christi — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 17:43:23 +0000

Apple just released Aperture 3 and I’m salivating all over it! There are tools that I would love to use in Photoshop but it’s just a hassle to switch between Aperture and Photoshop that I just gave up about it. Now, it’s built into Aperture! Wooooot!

Happy (belated) 2010!

Christi — Mon, 08 Feb 2010 06:21:12 +0000

Alright, I know I’m 1 month behind. >.< I had left my website/photos/blog for quite a while. (this is definitely more than a month >.

Speaking of weddings, I was just browsing some cinematic wedding films the last few days and looks like there isn’t any good ones in the US. Seriously, there’s a bunch of crappy ones if you just google “cinematic wedding film”. But take a look at these 2 videos:

I think a crew of 2-3 people can kick-start this. If there’s someone who wants to start experimenting this, I’m all onboard!

If you want to see more videos, take a look at these sites:
Paper Cranes (Burung burung kertas)
Mayad Studios

Oh, and one more thing – it feels good to have FINALLY graduated!