Category Archives: Blogging

Outage Alert

Posted on 2024-08-03 by jcs

Just a heads up about a pending weather threat to the Irreal bunker. There is currently a tropical depression over the West end of Cuba. The forecast calls for this to become Tropical Storm Debby and come up the West … Continue reading →

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Query: Disqus Markup

Posted on 2024-06-10 by jcs

Does anyone know what’s going on with Disqus markup? For as long as I’ve been using Disqus for Irreal’s commenting system, I’ve been able to respond to comments with text containing simple HTML markup such as <i>some text in Italics</i>, … Continue reading →

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WiFi In The Rain: An April First Story

Posted on 2024-04-02 by jcs

I may have mentioned before that I always dread April Fools Day. The web is inevitably full of silly stories that start off making a bit of sense but quickly degrade into farce. Predrag Gruevski brings some welcome relief with … Continue reading →

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Fixing The Emacs/Gnupg Problem

Posted on 2023-09-17 by jcs

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

Posted on 2023-08-29 by jcs

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?

Posted on 2023-05-13 by jcs

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

Posted on 2022-09-27 by jcs

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

Posted on 2022-08-15 by jcs

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

Posted on 2022-05-23 by jcs

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

Posted on 2022-04-06 by jcs

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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