Messing about with emacs server

Posted on Tue 02 June 2009 in misc • Tagged with emacs

I've been messing around with some weird-ass behaviour with my emacs-server. I had some code in it to deal with automatically opening a fresh frame (while in X) which I had plugged from the emacsclient wiki page. In one of my more recent updates the bleeding edge emacs I run …


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New Feed: Emacs Stuff

Posted on Fri 29 May 2009 in misc • Tagged with emacs

I've created a new feed for my emacs related posts (there are more) with an eye to getting it syndicated on Planet Emacs and joining the wider emacs blogging community. Of course this means I'll have to blog about emacs more often which may throw the "all topics" syndicated livejournal …


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Weekends of the past and future

Posted on Mon 20 April 2009 in misc • Tagged with development

We finally seem to be have returned fully to the UK time zone. This week sees a return to normal service.

We had Fliss' sister visiting for the weekend as she prepares to head of to sunnier (and more dangerous) climes for her MSc project. This coincided with my Mum's …


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TED TALKS: Electric Cars

Posted on Sat 18 April 2009 in misc • Tagged with development

I have to say this guy certainly has the vision thing. I share his thesis that green tech is going to be growth opportunity in the next few years. I just wonder how much software it's going to need.


And now for a little financial commentry

Posted on Fri 03 April 2009 in misc • Tagged with politics

Just because I'm the other side of the world on holiday doesn't mean I haven't had an eye on what's going on back home. The papers in Oz have also had the global financial crisis headlining as the great and the good gathered in London. With all this talk of …


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