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Org Mode Basics: Structuring Notes

Posted on 2015-08-30 by jcs

Ben Maughan of the wonderful Pragmatic Emacs is writing a series of articles on Org mode. It’s a big subject, of course, so he’s starting off easy by talking about the feature that got him started: structured notes. He covers … Continue reading →

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Law Enforcement Lies about Encryption

Posted on 2015-08-29 by jcs

By way of the Macalope’s John Evans putdown, I came across this old but still true and relevant article by Marcy Wheeler over at Salon entitled America’s huge iPhone lie: Why Apple is being accused of coddling child molesters. The … Continue reading →

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Crazy but Right

Posted on 2015-08-28 by jcs

New AT&T/NSA docs show "We were treated as crazy for years for allegations that we now know are substantially true.” https://t.co/R8TSG6Figr — Julia Angwin (@JuliaAngwin) August 17, 2015

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Scheduling Emacs Events

Posted on 2015-08-28 by jcs

Jon-Michael Deldin has a short post detailing how to schedule periodic events in Emacs. Most of us probably don’t want to have Emacs natter at us as implemented in Deldin’s example but it’s easy to imagine many helpful uses for … Continue reading →

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GPGTools for OS X

Posted on 2015-08-27 by jcs

If you’re running OS X and use the native mail app, you know that it can be hard to integrate the GPG encryption suite. Fortunately, there’s a custom solution for the Mac called GPGTools that integrates GPG with OS X … Continue reading →

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What’s Up With the Cat?

Posted on 2015-08-26 by jcs

Schrödinger: How’s my cat, Doc? Vet: I have good news and bad news.. — Viktor Winetrout, Jr (@Cpin42) October 6, 2014

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Daring Fireball Demolishes a Particularly Silly Article

Posted on 2015-08-26 by jcs

Irreal readers know I like and use Apple products but I’m not a paid up member of the cult so I seldom write about the subject. The most fascinating thing about Apple, I think, is the derangement syndrome that it … Continue reading →

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Artur Malabarba Tells it Like it is

Posted on 2015-08-25 by jcs

Who can argue? Services that claim to "cost less than your daily coffee" are seriously deluded if they think they're as important as my daily coffee. — Artur Malabarba (@AMalabarba) August 22, 2015

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Converting from Word to Org

Posted on 2015-08-25 by jcs

In a comment to one of my recent posts (1, 2) on converting from Org mode to Word doc format, Grant Rettke pointed me to an interesting Org Mode mailing list thread on how academics leverage Org mode for writing … Continue reading →

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Safe at Last

Posted on 2015-08-24 by jcs

Now I don't have to worry if someone steals my potatoes: they're hashed and salted. pic.twitter.com/BMNxRK7c0H — Jonathan Fuerth (@jfuerth) April 12, 2015

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