Yesterday I spent about five hours at the LinuxWorld in San Francisco and had a blast. It was refreshing to see so many commercial companies devoted and supporting Linux in the applications. I found a lot of the booths could be classified into one of four groups: Large ‘Enterprise’ Software Companies – Think Novell or …
LinuxWorld San Francisco
I just got back in from the LinuxWorld in San Francisco and it was a blast. I will try yo post more details about it tomarrow but I found I got over 20 pounds of “stuff”. Linux rocks! Eric Davis
Emacs Planner.el and GTD
I have just setup my emacs to use planner.el as my organization. After playing around with it for two days, I have my ‘one text file’ of next actions moved over to it. I really like the way it works, where your ‘projects’ are automatically updated based off a change you make in a context …
Learning Common Lisp and My Email Server
It is now the first Monday after I spent a weekend learning Lisp from Practical Common Lisp and I am in awe. I don’t know if it is me but I just feel like I ‘like’ lisp, it is so simple (although I don’t know most of the functions that are being called). The Slime …
LibraryThing Backups
I have started to use the service by LibraryThing to keep track of my book lists. It is free and a really nice service but I was afraid of something happening to my data so I quickly hacked up a script to grab a backup of my entire library. This script will grab the frame …