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org mode reading rss

2010-02-08T09:11:00.001Z

This is great. org mode can read from my toodledo rss feed and the toodle-droid app lets me post on the move.

I also have a script to sync my Google calendar with emacs' diary.

I'm going to try letting go of my paper-based task list and day plan...

Python + emacs + Android

2010-02-05T03:10:00.001Z

I'm writing Python in emacs and using just C-c C-c (interpret buffer) to execute it instantly on my phone.

I can hardly see through tears of joy.

Code in the cloud

2010-02-02T20:38:00.001Z

I wasn't particularly bothered by Mozilla's Bespin until I read that it's extensible and inspired by emacs. And some other, rather evil editor. Now I just need to wait 20 years and It will be surely be perfect.

3rd of February is new phone day

2010-01-22T23:13:00.001Z

And look: Processing for android. I'm now about as excited as I used to get just before Christmas at age 15. I mean 7.

Are you knowledge-hungry?

2010-01-22T22:19:00.001Z

It looks like there's proof that learning because you want to know something is much better than learning because you want to pass a test. http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/nurtureshock/archive/2009/12/15/this-is-your-brain-on-a-test.aspx. More reason than ever to find interesting exercises then, I suppose.

iPhone app development sounds like fun

2010-01-22T21:53:00.001Z

After seeing this, anyway: Eugene Lin – iPhoning My Way to Retirement

I wish I'd thought of this

2010-01-21T13:33:00.001Z

Christmas decorations created to represent the on-line statistics of the person they're given to. http://russelldavies.typepad.com/planning/2010/01/data-decs.html

Small worlds

2010-01-17T14:40:00.001Z

Small Worlds - the best game I've ever played that has a 3-pixel player character.

DropBox

2009-12-21T22:11:00.001Z

I love dropbox. It keeps me in sync across multiple machines and multiple operating systems. If you sign up, I can love it even more thanks to the free space I'll get when you do.

Films this week

2009-12-14T21:51:00.001Z

I always forget to tell people that there are good films coming up on Film4. I like to check the coming week and use my V+ box to set recordings. That way, there's always something worth watching if I can't sleep or just fancy a film.

This week, we have:

Pan's Labyrinth (You missed it. It's on now. I got carried away with modding e-blog.el)
Laputa (Tomorrow 15/12/09, 4:05pm)
Night Watch (Tomorrow 15/12/09 11:20pm)
Big Trouble in Little China(Thursday 17/12/09 9:00)

Emacs posting

2009-12-10T09:44:00.001Z

This is from e-blog. Seems better than weblogger.el

Test

2009-12-10T09:41:00.001Z

Test

Posting from emacs (title set in blogger sadness)

2009-12-10T09:13:00.001Z

<p>This is a test. If it works, it will be the first post I've made completely from emacs. I really hope it does work.</p><p>Do I write text or html? Let's put a link to weblogger.el to see what happens: <a href="http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/WebloggerMode">weblogger.el</a> I don't seem to be able to set the title, though. Revising posts israther amazing, though. Just save and it uploads.</p>

Making pulseaudio work sensibly

2009-11-14T12:44:00.001Z

Pulseaudio on my laptop has been giving me trouble since updating to Karmic. It thinks the PCM, LFE and master mixers should be mixed together like RGB. Turning up the volume first maxes out PCM and LFE and then starts on Master, so when you do get to what PA thinks is arounf 50%, it goes from silence to LOUD.

This fixed it nicely and at least I now know where the configuation is.

It's great that I have more control now - I have the behaviour I ideally wanted before (changing PCM rather than Master when using the media keys) but why is it not in /etc?

Writing to-do lists

2009-09-04T20:49:00.002Z

This might surpirse anyone that knows me and my habit of writing things on my hands, but I've written down how I do my to-do list. It's in response to an article on LifeHacker describing a radical purging routine.

Emacs: goto last edit

2009-08-02T07:13:00.001Z

Finally, it's back. Sort of.

I once knew a binding for Emacs that would jump to the last edited location in a buffer. It was great while writing my thesis, because I could go and check on something (like what I'd called a label for a \pageref).

But then I created scripts that grepped, awked and seded my thesis to produce lists of labels, which I then ran in watch inside a transparent xterm on another desktop, for easy look-ups. Simple and pleasingly distracting for the half and hour it took to set up. I'm a master procrastinator.

So I forgot the binding and have never managed to find it again.

I have now found something that does the same, though. Here's how to get it working:

Download goto-last-change.el from http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/goto-last-change.el
Put it in /usr/share/emacs/site-lisp/, or in your personal scripts directory if you have one.

Next, add something like the following in your .emacs:

;;go to last edit point
(require 'goto-last-change)
(global-set-key [(meta p)(u)] 'goto-last-change)

And now M-p u will allow you to jump back to the last place you edited.

I still wish I could remember the old binding. I know it's in there somewhere. I think it uses M-# somewhere…

Sunday night playlist

2009-06-21T20:26:00.001Z

Stealing Peter's great idea

How could I have lived for so long without this?

2009-04-15T14:16:00.001Z

Oxysilver. "OXYSILVER™ includes unique molecular structuring, atomic resonance energetics, and polarity electrochemistry".

That's proper science, that is. And it's only just over $500 for 18 bottles.

Film show

2009-03-27T07:10:00.001Z

2009 Creative Computing Film Show Trailer from Peter Every on Vimeo.

Hooray for gears

2009-03-25T07:49:00.004Z

Finally, Google are using their own gears technology in the services I love the most: gmail, calendar, and reader.

Remember the milk uses it too - not Google, but something I use a lot, especially since it integrates so well with Google's mail, calendar and start-page.

I wish more things tasted like bacon

2009-02-10T06:53:00.001Z

Wish granted.

I didn't know...

2009-01-21T22:38:00.001Z

If you want to insert the same bit of text in many places you can store it in a place called a register. Here's how:- 1. Move the point to the beginning of the section you wish to delete. 2. Press "C-space" to set the mark there. 3. Move the point to the end of the section you wish to store The region (the section between the point and mark) is now the section you wish to store. 4. Press "C-x r s" and then a letter. The text will now be stored in the register with the name of the letter you type. You can insert the text in the register with named "letter" using "C-x r i" and then the "letter".

From From here

Paranoid cameras

2009-01-18T08:43:00.001Z

Film, anyway. Now, where can I get a camera between now and 2010?

OMG dolls

2009-01-17T14:52:00.000Z

*scared* Pukipuki

A great find

2009-01-02T08:17:00.002Z

I just found a creative commons artist I really like and, thanks to Jamendo, here she is:

Oh, and happy new year.

readme

org mode reading rss

Python + emacs + Android

Code in the cloud

3rd of February is new phone day

Are you knowledge-hungry?

iPhone app development sounds like fun

I wish I'd thought of this

Small worlds

DropBox

Films this week

Emacs posting

Test

Posting from emacs (title set in blogger *sadness*)

Making pulseaudio work sensibly

Writing to-do lists

Emacs: goto last edit

Sunday night playlist

How could I have lived for so long without this?

Film show

Hooray for gears

I wish more things tasted like bacon

I didn't know...

Paranoid cameras

OMG dolls

A great find

Posting from emacs (title set in blogger sadness)