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Excluding external drives from Spotlight indexing by default

Thanks to http://hintsforums.macworld.com/showthread.php?t=115021, it’s simple: Under the Spotlight prefs, just add /Volumes/, which is where all external drives get mounted.

Loving Time Machine at Other Intervals

I love TM, but I rarely ever use it to go get stuff. When I do, it’s generally going back a few days in time. What I hate about TM is how it is constantly interrupting my work and backing up a ton of stuff that gets touched in my regular work. So I’m really [...]

Thanks to Angus: FileWriter and UTF-8 at last

One of those weird gaps in the universe, filled by a nice guy in 2004: http://www.malcolmhardie.com/weblogs/angus/2004/10/23/java-filewriter-xml-and-utf-8/

Ixnay Acebookfay

Whenever a friend sends me an invitation to connect on Facebook, I have to explain that I don’t want my personal life and connections modeled and owned by a for-profit corporation.

tried to access field org.slf4j.impl.StaticLoggerBinder.SINGLETON from class org.slf4j.LoggerFactory

Got this? Try using the latest SLF4J version. I upped to 1.5.10 and it resolved it. For more details, see Adam’s post in this thread: https://forum.hibernate.org/viewtopic.php?p=2400801