2012 a year in review

Posted on Fri 18 January 2013 in general • Tagged with parenting, review, ursula

In past years when I would review the year I'd flip back through my blog. For 2012 however I managed on average one post a month and the majority of those were geek related ones which in some ways are a lot easier to write.

The big change has been …


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Edit with Emacs v1.12 now available

Posted on Mon 03 December 2012 in geek • Tagged with edit with emacs, emacs

Apologies for the extended delay in getting out a new release of Edit with Emacs. Real life has been doing a good job keeping me busy that spare hacking time is in short supply. A number of people have submitted pull requests and I've also done a bit of clean-up …


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Many ways to skin a GNU

Posted on Tue 24 July 2012 in geek • Tagged with code, elisp, emacs

It's time for another examination of Emacs LISP and a selection of ways to solve the same problem. In this case it's the behaviour of the etags-select package. This handy function will present a selection table when it finds multiple definitions of the same tag. This is handy if your …


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Living la vida ELPA

Posted on Tue 10 July 2012 in geek • Tagged with elpa, emacs, git

I've been running Emacs 24 direct from the version control tree (technically a git mirror, bzr still confuses me) for some time now. As many people have mentioned ELPA is one of the big features that helps de-clutter an Emacs users ~/.emacs.d directory. I thought it might be a …


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Trials and Trufulations

Posted on Fri 08 June 2012 in general • Tagged with moods, parenting, sleep

One of the most challenging things about managing small bundles of fun is the fact their neural circuitry is brand new and developing very quickly. A key part of development at this stage is bonding with their parents. The last few weeks have been quite hard when Ursula has spent …


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