I've been playing with emacsclient in an effort to make things like editing blog entries faster by re-using existing emacs sessions. It's almost doing what I want it to do but there doesn't seem to be a way of checking if there is already a server running withing emacs itself …

Yesterday was the first full day of the Cambridge Folk Festival. There was a slight delay to getting there as Mufi and TJ had been held up by one of those rare M6 accidents. However once they arrived we took the very environmentally friendly bus to the site.

It's a …

I'm not sure what to think about the implications of the Max Mosley story. It's not like I hold the head of the FIA as any sort of role-model for how to live my life. And apart from a little prurient curiosity as to what he was getting up to …

I've been using screen more and more out of habit recently. I used to use a lot of tabs in Gnome Terminal on each project I'm working on. Now I run one terminal per project with a screen session for all the sub-sections. It seemed a good time to revisit …

To me this is just another indication the government has gone into fully reactive mode. Another example was the lead up to the Youth Crime Action plan.

I quite like the Tory proposals for fuel duty although with one caveat. The cost of fuel must continue to rise as an …