Word has wacky wacky Windows key bindings. Why can’t it be Emacs?

Hobix uses YAML for its entry format, which is all well and good, but it introduces a small problem: syntax highlighting and indentation don’t work well in Emacs. See, YAML is nice in that it’s all free form and human readable/writable, but it makes it hard to figure out what the indentation should be for a given bit of YAML. Take the following bit of YAML: --- !hobix.com,2004/entry author: [jterk] created: 2006-07-13 20:18:02 -04:00 content: > Hobix uses YAML for its entry format. Read more

For a while now I’ve been trying to think of some sort of business that I can start. I love my job – the people I work with and the work I get to do, not to mention the benefits, are great – but a bit of me knows that I won’t be satisfied forever. I also know that I’m spoiled; I won’t be able to handle working at a large company and it will be difficult to go to a less amiable work environment. Read more

From CNN (via. BoingBoing): Terrorists planned to use MP3 players and energy drinks to blow up as many as 10 jetliners bound for the United States, authorities said Thursday. A senior congressional source said it’s believed the plotters planned to mix a “British version of Gatorade” with a gel-like substance to make an explosive that they would possibly trigger with an MP3 player or cell phone. So the “terrorists” made Gatorade (subsequently generalized to include all liquids) and MP3 players suspect items. Read more

I’m starting a Clap Your Hands Say Yeah acoustic cover band. It will be called Snap Your Fingers Say Maybe.

I just had the most awesome IM conversation ever: Me: let’s start a metal band Me: I want to be able to go dudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudala dudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudala dudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudala dudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudala dudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudala dudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudala with the double pedal drums Andrew: wow…dudala…that’s it exactly Andrew: i’m in Andrew: lets do it Me: ok Me: know anyone with a drum set? Andrew: not up here Me: damn Me: well, we can post an ad Me: “looking for drummer who can go dudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudala dudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudala dudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudala dudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudala dudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudala dudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudaladudala with the double pedal drums”

I’ve been looking for a way to switch my email away from Evolution into Emacs (specifically VM) and the big hurdle so far has been message signing and signature verification. I thought briefly about roling my own, but lacking the time gave up. Along came smime.el … it looks like it does what I want to do. If I get some free time maybe I’ll even try it.

I added a bunch of feeds to my Bloglines subscription list (because of this list of the Best Blogs that You Aren’t Reading) and I noticed that most of the blogs has three or four RSS feeds (one or two RSS, an Atom feed, maybe a catchall like xml.someblog.com) and a few had ten or twenty or more because of sub blogs or category subscriptions. All I wanted to do was subscribe to the blog. Read more

After a quick stint with BlogMax I’ve now settled on Hobix. I had to get the latest SVN sources for it to work correctly. It looks like it does pretty much what I want to do and will be more easily extensible than BlogMax was. I’ve even started working on a set of Emacs Lisp functions that will let me create, edit and post all without leaving the Emacs OS. Hooray! Read more