A few weeks ago I attended the RETS committee meeting in Las Vegas. The meetings were in the Westin Casuarina hotel. While staying there, I discovered that Las Vegas is truly on the cutting edge of technology. Since I found no other way to describe it, I called it RAISH.
Yes, RAISH. [...]
From this mornings Chicago Tribune: Goose Island may partner with maker of Budweiser
The beer industry has been buzzing for weeks about talks between Chicago’s largest microbrewery and Anheuser-Busch Cos., fostering speculation the St. Louis beer giant may be interested in buying an ownership stake in Goose Island.
Goose Island president and founder John Hall confirmed that [...]
Sean and Joe were talking on IRC about Steve Yegge’s post on Steve Yegge’s 10 Specific Ways to Improve Your Productivity With Emacs. He had me at #1. Seriously, the most important thing to me on his post was how to swap caps and control on XP.
Even though I currently prefer Xemacs, most [...]
This was originally going to be a post bitching about how much of a pain in the ass FC4 had been for me when compared to its older brother, FC3. However, it turns out the problem I was having that almost sent me back to FC3 was of my own doing.
When FC3 first came [...]
Today I have learned of M-x toggle-truncate-lines
As an alternative to continuation, Emacs can display long lines by “truncation”. This means that all the characters that do not fit in the width of the screen or window do not appear at all…
You can enable or disable truncation for a particular buffer with the command `M-x [...]
My phrase of the day is metasyntactic variable
A metasyntactic variable is either a placeholder name (a kind of alias term, commonly used to denote the subject matter under discussion), or a random member of a class of things under discussion. The term originates from computer programming and other technical contexts, and is commonly used in [...]
