Category Archives: Blogging

Switching to Android

Posted on 2022-01-31 by jcs

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

Posted on 2021-12-12 by jcs

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

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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