If you work in Pages, but need to go to the Computer Lab to print stuff, you’ll probably want this script. Copy it into the applescript editor and save it as an application. Then dragging multiple pages files onto it will generate corresponding PDFs on the desktop.

on open theFiles
  tell application "Pages"
    repeat with aFile in theFiles
      open aFile
        set docName to name of front document
        -- Remove .pages extension.
        set prevTIDs to AppleScript's text item delimiters
        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to ".pages"
        -- Add .pdf extension.
        set docName to first text item of docName & ".pdf"
        set AppleScript's text item delimiters to prevTIDs
        -- Save PDF file to Desktop.
        set docPathAndName to (path to desktop as string) & docName
        save front document as "SLDocumentTypePDF" in docPathAndName
      close front document
    end repeat
  end tell
end open

To create word document files, use ‘.doc’ and ‘SLDocumentTypeMSWord’ instead

Credit to el hazard, I’ve implemented a reader panel on the left of the site. Any updates to friends’ lists I read will be posted here.

Some people simply give what they think is best for the recipient, perhaps considering, but most definitely putting aside the consequences.

That. Is appreciated.

* the following applies to Hong Kong law and is for entertainment only
Discovery is not generally allowed against third parties unless they facilitated the wrongdoing of the person one is claiming against – Norwich Pharmacal 1980 HL.

However, such an order is only to be used as a last resort and if there are no other reasonable means to find out the same information – Mitsui v Nexen Petroleum UK 2005.

There is something wrong with the publishing of Bush’s pardoning of two turkeys and thus saving them from the dinnerplate of Thanksgiving. First off, it does nothing to prevent the consumption of their feathery brethren. Secondly, its like a joke. What leader of state would publicly save the life of two birds annually and fly of for a holiday weekend? The Chief Executive of Hong Kong has better things to do. The premier of China has better things to do. The Queen of England has better things to do. With respect, I think Mr. Bush should show more compassion to people as human beings than to two birds and “their blissful gobbling”.

Notwithstanding the subprime crisis, North Korea, Iraq, Iran and Myanmar, Bush pardons two birds.

Are you single? Yes.
Are you gay? Yes.