Category Archives: Blogging

Irreal Is 12

Posted on 2021-07-08 by jcs

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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Weather Alert

Posted on 2021-07-06 by jcs

The wannabe hurricane known as tropical storm Elsa is due at the Irreal bunker later tonight. It’s currently on the line between tropical storm and hurricane but in either case the winds will likely be high enough to cause potential … Continue reading →

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Two Quickies

Posted on 2021-04-26 by jcs

Ten Years At This Location Irreal will be 12 years old in July but 10 years ago today I published my first post at irreal.org. Before that, Irreal was hosted at Blogger and I posted sporadically at best. Once the … Continue reading →

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Emacs Editing

Posted on 2021-02-08 by jcs

Over at the Emacs subreddit, WorldsEndless has an interesting post that considers Emacs as a text editor. That is, how convenient is it to edit text with Emacs, putting any of its other virtues aside. He considers both the built-in … Continue reading →

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Weather Alert

Posted on 2020-11-11 by jcs

Just a quick note that Hurricane Eta is in the area of the Irreal bunker and may interfere with posting. The current path calls for Eta to come ashore a bit north of Tampa as a tropical storm so we’re … Continue reading →

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Describe Package

Posted on 2020-09-18 by jcs

Just the other day when I was writing the post about Steve Purcell’s rewrite of whole-line-or-region, I wanted to ensure that I had the latest version of whole-line-or-region to make sure there weren’t any gotchas after an upgrade. I did … Continue reading →

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Polyglot Documents in Org-mode

Posted on 2020-07-18 by jcs

The University of Oxford Software Engineering Research group (OxRSE) has an interesting post on how they use Org-mode to publish tutorial material with the examples in different programming languages. The idea is to present the concepts, which are language agnostic, … Continue reading →

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Progress Report

Posted on 2020-02-20 by jcs

I’ve almost completely recovered from the debacle with my old computer. At least recovered enough to resume posting to Irreal. I now have a brand new 13“ MacBook Pro complete with touch strip and bad keyboard. My old machine was … Continue reading →

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Red Alert

Posted on 2020-02-18 by jcs

Last night, I managed to spill my beverage of choice onto my laptop. As McCoy would say, “It’s dead Jim.” Until I can replace it (probably tomorrow) and download my backups (who knows how long that will take) Irreal will … Continue reading →

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The Google GDPR Workaround

Posted on 2019-09-05 by jcs

A little over a week ago in my post on Google Tracking, I remarked that nothing short of strictly enforced GDPR-syle legislation would get Google and the other adtech miscreants to behave. I ended on the cynical note that maybe … Continue reading →

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