Managing Mammals

Posted on Mon 12 July 2010 in general • Tagged with cats, countryside, dogs, hedgehogs, home, nature, wildlife

I'm writing this post the Sunday house break-in attempt. However much as I'd like to vent and praise I thought I'd stick with some positive commentary on the weekend and save the rest for another post.

This weekend has involved a variety of mammals and their interactions with their human …


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Emacs Daemon and Handling Projects

Posted on Mon 05 July 2010 in geek • Tagged with emacs, ide, projects

All my machines have been running persistent Emacs daemons for some time now. Every time I edit a web-page text area or a tweak a configuration file the Emacs client whizzes me to the file with efficient enthusiasm.

However I'm still running individual sessions for each "project" I work on …


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On the nature of Planets

Posted on Thu 01 July 2010 in geek • Tagged with community, emacs, planet

I upgraded my Wordpress install yesterday which inadvertently broke the 'emacs' tagged feed to Planet Emacsen. The aim of having a sub-feed from my blog was so I didn't pollute the planet feed with my rambling life story which is probably of more interest(?) to my friends and family. They …


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Digital Democracy

Posted on Thu 01 July 2010 in general • Tagged with consulation, democracy, edemocracy, government, politics

Our new Coalition Overlordstm have launched a new web-site to solicit feedback from the citizenry on what laws should be repealed/modified. This is a little more involved than the current option to sign e-Petitions at the number 10 website. The site supports commenting, tagging as well subscribing to …


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Phone Home

Posted on Wed 30 June 2010 in geek • Tagged with backchannel, server, ssh, tips

In the old days when I ran my server from my basement I automatically had access to my home machines. This was useful for all sorts of things but mainly allowing me to monitor my Gentoo system while it re-built the world. However nowadays this is trickier, especially when I'm …


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