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Essays

Current Working Notes

My personal website is at ODBlog . I write about decision theory at my site On Deciding . . . Better . This site is a hyperlinked set of essays using Tinderbox.

Syndication available

There's a script that's been reproduced many times around the net. I found it at Studio Log as part of a script for pulling info from a web page into a Stickie. It actually works pretty well for grabbing info for Tinderbox where the title and URL will be made into a link via a dialog. I have it in Script menu as Stickies Express

[Note to self: Is this scriptable in Tinderbox?]

Stickies Express

tell application "Safari"

activate

set t to name of window 1

set s to URL of document 1

end tell

set the clipboard to ""

tell application "System Events"

tell process "Safari"

click menu item "Copy" of menu "Edit" of menu bar 1

end tell

end tell

tell application "Safari"

activate

set t to name of window 1

set s to URL of document 1

set u to the clipboard

set noteStr to t & return & s & return & u

set the clipboard to noteStr

end tell

Copyright 2003 by James J. Vornov