Monthly Archives: November 2014

Day of the Year

This is really a note to myself. The other day I needed to figure out what day of the year it was. I was pretty sure that the Unix date command could tell me but I couldn’t remember how to … Continue reading

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Using Emacs and Org Mode for a Journal

Howard Abrams has an excellent post on journaling with Emacs and Org Mode. The post documents how his use of Org Mode evolved over time so you can see what (at least for him) worked and didn’t work. That’s very … Continue reading

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Counting Spanning Trees

I really enjoy Atabey Kaygun’s blog. If you like Mathematics and Lisp, you’re sure to enjoy it too. A typical post looks at a mathematical problem and either presents a solution or experiments with the problem with Common Lisp. One … Continue reading

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Org Mode and Reproducible Research

EmacsNYC has another great video up. This time, its Evan Misshula talking about Org-mode and reproducible research. Misshula is a graduate student in Criminal Justice at CUNY who does a lot of statistical research on Criminal Justice matters. Like me, … Continue reading

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Emacs on Git

It’s been a long time coming but as of today, Git will be the official repository for Emacs. It’s easy to miss what a monumental achievement this is. It would be easy to shrug off the news with a so … Continue reading

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IE on Mac

Why?

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Building gnuplot on OS X

As part of my on-going efforts to get my new MacBook Pro set up with my normal working environment, I tried to compile gnuplot. The first problem was that libpng and libgd were not installed so there was no png … Continue reading

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Join the NSA and Do Illegal Things

“We’re going to give you the opportunity to do stuff you can’t legally do anywhere else” — NSA Director's hiring pitch at Stanford. — Morgan Mayhem (@headhntr) November 6, 2014 You probably can’t legally do those things at the NSA … Continue reading

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Rating Secure Messaging Applications

The EFF has published its Secure Messaging Scorecard that rates several messaging applications on several important security axes. Some have all the desired attributes, others have none. Some, like Apple’s iMessage have most of the attributes but fail to be … Continue reading

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Microsoft

Still evil after all these years.

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