Today's Ubuntu Emacs PPA tip

Posted on Tue 19 January 2010 in general • Tagged with emacs, linkedin, ppa, ubuntu

Like many Emacs users I use the excellent Ubuntu Elisp PPA to get a more recent Emacs than the main distro repos package. However I'd been puzzled as to why emacs-snapshot hadn't been updated in ages. The was doubly confusing as the orebokech packages on which they are based and …


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First elisp patch for emacs chrome

Posted on Sat 09 January 2010 in general • Tagged with chrome, elisp, emacs, extensions

One of the nice things about putting your coding experiments up early and under a permissive license is people can submit patches. I'd been trying to get the native elisp edit server working but I'd fallen back to the working python script as I've been busy at work. However along …


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No Snow Yet

Posted on Wed 06 January 2010 in general • Tagged with hashtag, snow, twitter, weather

According to the new live weather map we live in the only part of the country that has dodged the snow bullet so far. That's certainly the impression I get from seeing every ones various social media musings on the matter. No matter the platform we Brits seems to love …


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On Coal, Avatar's, Empty Roads and Plot Resets

Posted on Mon 04 January 2010 in general • Tagged with cgi, doctor who, drama, imax, new year, scifi, traditions

So that was the festive season, welcome to a new year. As we stumble back into the daylight and routine of work can I extend my best wishes to all for this new decade.

After the family centred Christmas we headed up to Manchester to celebrate the new year amongst …


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So that was Christmas

Posted on Mon 28 December 2009 in general • Tagged with christmas, family, holidays

You'll have to excuse the radio silence since my last post. The run-up to Christmas was a rush to ship the next version of the product to the testing team for next year. This wasn't helped by a whole day being taken up with the company Chrimbo do for clay …


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