I found that one of the Debian developers packages emacs-snapshot for Debian stable. A little bit of shell script later and my Mutt is firing off a muti-tty emacsclients whenever I need to edit a mail. It shaves literally seconds off the time it takes me to compose an email …

While browsing some new BBC mash-ups I noticed a reference to a new data source. Freebase is still in alpha but it aims to be a flexibly addressable database of facts (rather than articles containing facts like Wikipedia). This has all sorts of intriguing possibilities.

In other news, Obama is …

My venerable Ogg capable media player died* a few days ago. I'm now in the market for a new media player as it helps the time battling the on-coming headwind pass by as I cycle in and out of work. Although I mostly listen to pod-casts it would be nice …

I've just automated call purporting to be from my credit card provider to confirm some recent activity on my card. The concept is a laudable one but not having foreknowledgeof the system I treated it like any other phone call. I certainly don't give personal/security information over the …

I've finally started taking advantage of all the memory I put in this machine to indulge a guilty pleasure. Seeing as I'm only testing the next Ubuntu in my virtual machine I can install Flash on it so I can watch iPlayer. Although I'm obviously critical of the fact it …