Tag Archives: Technology

More short updates

The Doctor Who Christmas special this year pulled in its biggest numbers since 1979, which means that it even beat out the episode “Rose,” the first of the new series. One source said that it will play in the US in “early 2008″ but I don’t believe it for a minute.
Sandbox 1.2 is out, [...]

Wavatars!

I have installed Shamus Young’s Wavatar plugin. If you have a Gravatar, it will use that instead. If you don’t, it will generate a Wavatar for you based on your email address.
Mine is incredibly ugly.
Comment below if you want to see what yours would look like. Theoretically, they should be the same [...]

Tandem redux

Forgive a little geeking out, but there is now a fully-redundant — and I do mean “fully,” as in “you can take a hammer to one of the motherboards or just yank a RAM chip and it will survive and stay up” — Linux server. The more things change, the more they stay the [...]

The Future of Reading

Mark Pilgrim: The Future of Reading (a play in six acts).

Thought police

Interesting, if potentially scary stuff.
On a slightly related note, I’m fascinated with radiology as a medical specialty. However, it’s a difficult specialty to enter, and I’m sure I don’t have the intellectual chops for it.

First blog post with the Neo

Let’s try typing something. This is fairly pleasant. It will be hard to get used to not using Emacs keys, though. The LCD display seems slow from this angle, but this is most likely the angle I’d be using on the bus, so I guess this is all right.

I can read it [...]

Imagine a Beowulf cluster of those…

Neatorama links to a picture of the Mac II Couch. Here’s the original site. I worked there while that was being constructed. I always wondered what happened to that thing. I assume that it went to the last owners of the store, before they disappeared. (The current macstore.com domain is [...]

Twitter

Not more than a week after telling at least two people that I would never Twitter… I am.
So, for up-to-the-minute coverage of my day, check the Twitter sidebar here, or go there.

Keeping my brain diverted

I do strange things sometimes to keep my brain from turning into mush when I have to concentrate a lot on something.
Cut and paste this into Emacs (21.3 or later) and evaluate it to see what I mean. This is something to answer the question, “What comes next in the series 1, 11, 21, [...]

The noonday sun (of text editors)

From In the Beginning was the Command Line, but I found it via Tim Bray:
I use emacs, which might be thought of as a thermonuclear word processor. It was created by Richard Stallman; enough said. It is written in Lisp, which is the only computer language that is beautiful. It is colossal, and yet it [...]

Free software I use everyday

Picking up the meme from Jeff who got it from Frugal for Life, here is the free software I use everyday:

Emacs. Bar none, this is the most useful computer program I have ever used. I use it for statistics analysis, webpage development, computer programming, calendaring, email, Bible study, network administration, and more. [...]

How to copy lines

I just got this from a “Unix guru” tip list. How to copy a number of lines from one file to another using vi, the standard Unix/Linux editor:

2004 in Short Review

The last few years I have had a tradition of posting an end-of-year review of everything that has happened in our lives and ministries. This will not be as detailed as the reviews of previous years, but here we go:
Personal things:

My wife’s sister, the cancer patient who we said we were helping last year, [...]

Hebrew dates in my email

Those who know me know that, when I am sending email from my preferred email client, they usually see the Jewish-calendar date on which I sent the email, and sometimes the occasional note related to the (again, Jewish) holiday season. I have been quite proud of this Emacs hack for several years, but today [...]

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