Notes, OneNote and Org Mode
[Updated 2018-11; my understanding of org-mode has improved] OneNote Roughly: A OneNote Notebook has Sections, and Pages within the section. Editing the notes in a page feels similar to editing a simple Word document. Org Mode Roughly: org-mode is a renowned organisation tool, which is built on top of Emacs.
org files are plaintext, with notes structured using a [...]
Case Study in Vim Plugin Development
I don’t know a lot about writing plugins.
My own experience goes as far as trying to write a plugin for Eclipse (which gets very complicated as soon as a plugin isn’t a “monolithic” bundle); as well as writing a quite small plugin for my C worksheet. (The fanciest thing it does is to download a JAR archive dependency [...]
Comical Conservative
Came across this on Facebook: Liberal: I am pro-choice
Me: Can I choose my own health care?
Liberal: No.
Me: Can I choose what I do with money I earn?
Liberal: No.
Me: Can I choose how I defend my family and possessions?
Liberal: No.
Me: What can I choose?
Liberal: An [...]
Beware Radicalisation
Shot(s): When Nerds Collide by @maradydd / Meredith Patterson, 2014 Mar (Bonus: Okay, Feminism, It’s Time We Had a Talk About Empathy, 2013 Oct).
Chaser: Meredith Patterson’s valient effort is probably doomed by @esrtweet / Eric S. Raymond, 2015 Jan. Well, at least ERS hedges by saying ‘probably’. I read the above two pieces from [...]
Romance Tropes in Anime vs Romance Novels
Recently I’ve finished playing Valkyria Chronicles and If My Heart Had Wings.
Valkyria Chronicles, recently released for PC (earlier released on PlayStation 3) is a strategy game; featuring a bunch of cute boys & girls in cutesy uniforms with rifles in an almost WWII-esque setting.
If My Heart Had Wings is a ‘visual novel’; the story is about [...]
Pretty HG Log Style
There’s a somewhat famous styled git log I have in my config. The guy I grabbed it from said it was from scm-breeze, I think maybe he meant tiimgreen’s github-cheat-sheet. In any case, The Git one is like:
%h - [...]
I Could Solve This in Five Minutes
So, at the moment I’m sludging through Sherry Thomas’ latest, & first Contemporary, “The One in my Heart”.
There’s lots to not-enjoy about it. (Like the character lamenting the lack of timeless marriage, at the same time as looking at her phone during lunch with her partner). Whatever. The bigger issue for the Romance Novel here is that there’s [...]
You Know You Should Be Using VCS For That
It’s kindof cute that all programmers, if they’ve worked on any project for a long enough time before learning about VCS, surely all take the same approach to novice “version control”. e.g. Keeping folders/copies as snapshots of how the code looked at that time. – We weren’t all born knowing how to use VCS. (Though, maybe those who didn’t bother [...]
Case Study of Conflict in Narrative
Maybe in my previous postings on this topic I’ve come across as a little harsh on RASalvatore, and perhaps it seems that I think all Romance Novels do character well. Okay. That’s obviously not going to be true.
But I’d still like to consider Katherine Ashe’s novella from the “At the Billionaire’s Wedding” anthology with regards to conflict in [...]
Devil in Winter
So. Recently I re-read Lisa Kleypas’ “Devil in Winter”.
Not the first time I’ve re-read that book. There are some less-than-stellar parts of the book. (Notably, an awkward sequel-setup, which then doesn’t get follow-through in the next book besides “oh. that. haha. oops.”.).
But it’s such an amazing, fantastic book! I can’t believe there’re those who don’t think [...]
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