Author: rmore
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When Mac OS X Emacs Displays Unicode Symbols Too Wide
Was I going crazy, or was Emacs displaying certain text too wide?
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How to Make Thunderbird Chat Work with Most XMPP/Jabber Accounts
I really like how Thunderbird 15.0 has build in support for populate chat services like Google Talk, Twitter, and XMPP (aka Jabber). What I don’t like is that Thunderbird’s support for these is minimal, and when things don’t work it is almost impossible to figure out why. Here are two issues I ran into and…
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Software Inventory – Joel on Software
Great Joel on software article about the costs associated with carrying huge work backlogs: Software Inventory – Joel on Software.
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Maybe with these I won’t loose asparagus into the coals when I am grilling
Maybe with these I won’t loose asparagus into the coals when I am grilling: Grill Clips at Sur La Table.
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How to fix MacPort’s version of w3m from crashing on Mac OS X 10.7 Lion
I like to use w3m command to display HTML content in emails under emacs. I recently noticed some w3m instability after I upgraded to Mac OS X 10.7 Lion: $ w3m http://www.nytimes.com/ Segmentation fault: 11 Mac OS X also offered a helpful message of w3m quit unexpectedly and offered up a Problem Report that looked…
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I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen… because by it I see everything else – CSLewis
I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen… because by it I see everything else – CSLewis
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How to Make Emacs SSL Work on Mac OS X
If you find yourself on Mac OS X having problems getting SSL working for Emacs under Mac OS X, you might try installing GnuTLS and telling emacs to use that instead. Why would you need this? In my case I was just trying to get Wanderlust (the best email client for emacs in my opinion)…
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Workaround for dansguardian and iTunes 9.1
The recent iTunes 9.1 update from Apple came with a bug that breaks compatibility with the Dansguardian web content filter and results in an Can’t Connect to the iTunes Store error message from iTunes. What is happening is that iTunes requests a URL with a dot after the hostname: http://ax.init.itunes.apple.com./ And dansguardian rejects it as…
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Book Review: The Copper Scroll
Newly discovered secrets about the Copper Scroll unleash a series of events that engulf current and former CIA operatives, leaders of the United States, Israel, and Iraq in a race to unlock the secret.
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Google Reader’s dirty little secret? You can’t tell when your subscriptions are broken.
Imagine my surprise when I decided to try out an competing feed reader only to discover a number of my subscriptions had been broken for a long time, and Google Reader never bothered to alert me.
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Allen, Texas (and your community) Needs to Get Around to Roundabouts
The Arizona DOT website list the following benefits of modern roundabouts: 90 percent reduction in fatal crashes 75 percent reduction in injury crashes 30-40 percent reduction in pedestrian crashes 10 percent reduction in bicycle crashes 30-50 percent increase in traffic capacity thereby enhancing traffic flow Roundabouts, or traffic circles, have come a long way since…
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Stewardship Testimony
Each year my church, Round Grove United Church, has a stewardship program where member’s of the congregation speak for a few minutes on the meaningfulness of the church and how giving has been meaningful. As I look over this congregation, I see mentors who have showed me, showed all of us ways of bearing the…
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Champion What Makes You Unique
A phone call told use that “they should have called you and let you know that the plumber wasn’t coming”. So, as I embark upon my new job search, I hope I have learned the lesson of the one handed plumber well.
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Breaking up with Singleton
In Steve Yegge’s Singleton Considered Stupid I found a friend to confirm my now near hatred for the so called singleton design pattern. I found myself callously using singleton to allocate an instance, and then never speaking to singleton or the instance again.
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A Gentle Introduction to using RSS
RSS contains the following information: Links to the most recent articles on the site Titles, descriptions, and other details of the articles and the website The good news is that you never have to edit or save an RSS file, that is the job of the website, they keep their RSS file updated with the…