Post Travel Slump

Posted on Mon 07 December 2009 in geek • Tagged with android, emacs, gud, rockbox, travel

I got back from my Hungarian adventures at a slightly more reasonable time than Wednesday mornings departure. Never the less I find travel still zaps the energy out of me. On Friday night I managed to eat dinner before crawling upstairs and passing out.

Saturday has been ably documented elsewhere …


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What's in your Browser?

Posted on Thu 26 November 2009 in geek • Tagged with browsers, chromium, emacs, firefox

The official Chrome Extensions page is coming and soon I'll be seriously considering making a switch to my default browser setting. While Chromium (the open source component of Chrome) is a fantastically speedy, low memory and nimble browser it's lack of extensions if the main thing holding me back from …


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Thinking about email

Posted on Tue 17 November 2009 in geek • Tagged with emacs, email, gmail, imap, mail

I saw a post on my feeds today discussing a new email client called notmuch which set me thinking about my own use of email.

I have three primary ways of accessing email at the moment. On my domain I run Mutt in a screen session. At work I have …


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Avoiding RSI one keypress at a time

Posted on Wed 04 November 2009 in general • Tagged with emacs, rsi

Much as I love emacs some of the key combinations it expects of you to a) remember b) use are don't help when your trying to ameliorate the effects of RSI. As I spend an lot of time in compilation mode the following quick win helps:

(define-key compilation-mode-map (kbd "n …

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Migrated to Wordpress

Posted on Mon 02 November 2009 in general • Tagged with blog, emacs, meta, site, wordpress

I've finally gotten around to migrating the blog to Wordpress. While I'm still very happy with Personal Weblog it was getting a little long in the tooth and given Livejournal's ongoing problems with syndicated feeds I thought it would be easier to host everything (including comments) on my site. You …


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