Category Archives: Blogging

Fixing The Emacs/Gnupg Problem

For some time there’s been a problem between Gnupg 2.4.1 and Emacs. Although you can decrypt files with Emacs—your .authinfo.gpg file for example—you couldn’t edit and save an encrypted file: Emacs hangs. This turns out to be a mismatch between … Continue reading

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Hurricane Alert

It’s late summer in Florida so of course the weather is getting dicey. The latest excitement is hurricane Idalia, which is currently about 200 miles West of Key West and forecast to move up the coast of Florida and come … Continue reading

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Why Blog?

Since you’re reading this, you know that I blog. I blog a lot: everyday for several years now. You might wonder why. Anyone who’s tried it knows that blogging is hard and involves a lot of work. Irreal isn’t monetized … Continue reading

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Hurricane Warning

Just a heads up for those of you who don’t live around the Gulf of Mexico. Hurricane Ian is heading up the west coast of the Florida peninsula and will pass just offshore of Tampa. The Irreal bunker is not … Continue reading

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More dwim-shell-command

Álvaro Ramírez continues his roll with yet another function for his dwim-shell-command framework. This time, it’s a function to combine several .png files into a single .pdf file. As with the other functions, the point is not to enable new … Continue reading

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A Million Words

The other day I wondered how many words I’ve written for Irreal. All my posts exist as org files in my ~/org/blog directory so a reasonable estimation can be had by cd ~/org/blog cat *.org | wc -w 1040421 Over … Continue reading

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Lab Leak: The Video

Ryan Grim from The Hill has a video out that does a good job in summarizing the Vanity Fair article on the origin of COVID-19 that I wrote about a few days ago. In just over 10 minutes Grim does … Continue reading

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Switching to Android

You all know that I’m primarily an Apple person and that I like their hardware and the way their various devices work together more or less seamlessly. Even so, I’m not a Fan Boy and as in most things I’m … Continue reading

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Booster Shots and Other Reasons for Not Doing Any Work

Last Friday I got my COVID-19 booster shot. Here in Tampa, at least, that was easy. You can get them anywhere with an even tenuous link to the healthcare industry. As happened with my second shot, I woke up the … Continue reading

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Irreal Is 12

Today is Irreal’s twelfth birthday. Irreal started off slowly, like most blogs, but for the last 9 years, I’ve posted pretty much everyday except when things like power outages and the flu intervened. As I’ve said before, the blog is … Continue reading

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