…empty pride inspired by an overweening conceit of one’s personal attainments or decorations; [1913 Webster] I’m a sucker for pretty desktops and window managers. This weakness has yet to make me succumb to the lure of a full Gnome (or KDE) desktop, however. (Although I did play with the hack kludge known as XGL/compiz for [...]
Finally, windows did something I agree with: If only it had caught itself during the OS install instead of just a measly user-space app… Maybe this has been fixed in Vista… (…could that be the reason it’s still not out? I suppose I shouldn’t get my hopes up.)
As is the case with many geek-endeavors, the things I’m currently working on have nothing to do with the goal I set out to achieve. At the moment I’m trying to find a way to convert xhtml into muse markup. Why? Because your average Java programmer Just Doesn’t Get It when it comes to building [...]
I’ve wanted to use emacs as a blogging tool for a long time, but I’ve always run into issues. Today I ran across a blog post that describes an approach that works: http://ektich.wordpress.com/2006/01/30/how-to-blog-from-emacs/ In addition to the instructions there, I had to pull down: elib (with apt) xml.el (from: http://www.astro.princeton.edu/~rhl/skyserver/xml.el) Ping me with questions — [...]