When you do so much of your work in one text editor the efficiency of switching between buffers becomes more important. For a long time I’ve had two bindings “C-x b” and “C-x C-b” which in days of yore I had bound to bs-show and a hacked up list-buffers that opened another window. These are [...]
Archive of posts filed under the geek category.
Getting organised
What with becoming a parent and getting promoted I suddenly find myself needing to become a lot more organised. Although I’ve been using org-mode for a bit I need to get a lot more organised with it. Previously I had two sets of org notes. My personal set where sitting on my server which I [...]
Nexus of possibilities
Looking back the last few months I notice every post has been about family and parenthood. Time to redress the balance a little and add some geek friendly contents. After Christmas I indulged myself with a new phone. When I got the HTC Hero I’d deliberately skipped the first generation of Android phones to give [...]
Edit with Emacs v1.10 released
I received a bunch of feedback and patches from my last announcement but I think all the outstanding bugs are now squashed. The edit-server.el has seen some love to make it more idiomatically correct for elisp. The main change is new code to handle editable DIV tags beloved of such sites as Google+ (which you [...]
Call for testing for Edit with Emacs
I’ve been doing a bunch of house-keeping on Edit with Emacs recently in preparation for a new release. I can only apologise to those people who have submitted patches and merge requests for my tardiness. I’m afraid Real Life tm has been taking precedence. As regular readers of the non-emacs sections of my blog will [...]
*ritchie=NULL;
Now the smoke has settled on the passing of Jobs I’d like to talk about a real computing hero of mine. Someone who literally has changed the world (at least for everyone reading this). I learnt last night that Dennis Ritchie had passed away. Without pioneers like Ritchie we wouldn’t have most of the computing [...]
RiP
Today the tech-world has lost one of those rarest of things, a tech geek with name recognition. Steve Jobs and the company he founded with the lesser know Steve Wozniak is now a technology giant with operating profits and margins that most oil companies only dream of. It is all the more remarkable given Apple’s [...]
org-mode and clocking in
I’ve recently started using org-mode‘s time tracking to keep track of what I spend my time doing at work. This was in response to being asked by one of my managers what I spend my time doing and basically being forced to guess. Setting up a clock page is fairly simple. It’s then just a [...]
Poking unexplained holes in reality, for science!
We had a slightly extended weekend as we headed up North to visit friends in Manchester before heading over to the Yorkshire Hippie enclave of Hebden Bridge for Victoriana. This was going to be our last game before our first child arrives. Victoriana is a steam-punk style alternate history LARP game based loosely around Victorian [...]
