Category Archives: Blogging

WordPress And Trackbacks

Posted on 2011-12-26 by jcs

I’m a big fan of WordPress. I know a lot of people disagree but it works very well for me. It allows me to maintain a nicely laid out blog without spending a lot of time with administration. I do … Continue reading →

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Administrivia

Posted on 2011-11-22 by jcs

The scum spammers, who doubtless describe themselves as SEO consultants, have discovered a new way to get links into forum comments: trackbacks and pingbacks. Irreal does have the occasional legitimate trackback and I enjoy them as they give me a … Continue reading →

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Happy Anniversary To Mastering Emacs

Posted on 2011-11-11 by jcs

Happy Anniversary to Mickey Petersen and Mastering Emacs. Mickey has been posting really great material for a year now and we should all hope he continues. As I’ve said before, Mickey always has something interesting to say and I invariably … Continue reading →

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A New Trick For Marking Up Key Sequences in Emacs

Posted on 2011-11-06 by jcs

Frozenlock left a comment to an old post of mine about Marking Up Key Sequences For HTML. He said he liked the way Xah Lee and I mark up Emacs keys sequences but that he didn’t like having to write … Continue reading →

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Administrivia—Moderation

Posted on 2011-10-30 by jcs

Some of you may have noticed that your comments were held in the moderation queue longer than usual the last two days. That’s because I haven’t been getting email notifications of new comments. I’ll look into what’s happening there but … Continue reading →

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Blogging With Emacs

Posted on 2011-10-27 by jcs

Xah Lee asked me to write about my blog publishing process and how an article gets from Emacs to my site. I’ve written about most of the parts of the process in various posts but it might be useful to … Continue reading →

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Administrivia: Captchas

Posted on 2011-08-23 by jcs

The amount of comment spam has reached intolerable levels: spam comments far outnumber legitimate comments and moderating them is taking an increasing amount of time. Therefore, I have reluctantly installed a captcha to try to bring the problem under control. … Continue reading →

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Searching For Blog Posts With Dired

Posted on 2011-08-15 by jcs

Here’s another nice trick using Dired. I sometimes want to make an update to a blog post a few days or even weeks after I published it. I have no problem finding the title of the post, if I need … Continue reading →

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Drawing Keyboard Keys

Posted on 2011-06-15 by jcs

Those of you who followed my recommendation and took at look at Xah Lee’s Increase Productivity Using Function Keys post, may have noticed some neat CSS magic that he uses when writing about keyboard keys. For example, he says that … Continue reading →

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org2blog

Posted on 2011-04-27 by jcs

Now that I’ve moved my blog to WordPress, I’m simplifying my work flow by using org2blog. It’s still early days—I’ve only published three posts and the about page with it—but so far I like it a lot. I write my … Continue reading →

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