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 tagged google
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 [...]
Baseline Codecs for web video
A lot of ‘net comment has been generated in the last few days following Google’s announcement that they will be dropping support for H.264 in future versions of their Chromium browser. They expound on their decision here. In making this move they join the ranks of Mozilla in supporting Open Video in web-pages. The trouble [...]
Google Gate-gate
Google was on the news this morning for the latest piece of fall-out from their WiFi survey. For the uninitiated for some time the Google Street View cars have been scraping WiFi data as they roam the streets. The intention has been to build a database of SSIDs as an alternative way of locating position [...]
A few paragraphs
There are a number of potential topics for blog posts swirling in my brain which I’m not going to have time to write. I shall therefor attempt to address each on in paragraph form (Twitter style is a little too brief for me). We were at Maelstrom this weekend. We splashed out for a van [...]
Adding Google Juice to mutt
As I’ve been mailing out invites I discovered a minor problem with my data. My main email client is the fantastically functional mutt. It’s terminal based but incredibly flexible. When it comes to mass sorting/searching your email it leaves GUI based clients standing. However now I’m a roving around with a Google Phone the majority [...]
Google’s change of heart
So Google are finally having second thoughts about their relationship with China. We may see then end of google.cn as a search engine that filters search results that might embarrass the authorities. Google got a lot of stick at the time when they first created their Chinese presence. In reality they were doing what every [...]
