Monthly Archives: August 2014

Moving from Scrivener to Org-mode

Posted on 2014-08-11 by jcs

The estimable Org-mode maintainer Bastien Guerry tweeted a link to an interesting thread on the Org-mode mailing list. Nice #emacs #orgmode thread: "A gentle introduction to Emacs & Org-mode?" http://t.co/dO5F0kHCGE — Bastien Guerry (@bzg2) July 27, 2014 The thread concerned … Continue reading →

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A Third NSA Leaker?

Posted on 2014-08-10 by jcs

According to Betteridge’s law the answer should be no but Bruce Schneier isn’t so sure. We’ve heard the speculation about a second leaker responsible for revealing the details of the TAO catalog, X-KEYSTORE rules, and the tapping of Angela Merkel’s … Continue reading →

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Report from the Copyright Front

Posted on 2014-08-09 by jcs

Rick Falkvinge has another excellent diatribe in his series on copyright and its abuses. This time he examines the common notion that without copyright, artists wouldn’t get paid and would therefore stop producing their art. That’s a powerful argument and … Continue reading →

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Gnus Guide

Posted on 2014-08-08 by jcs

For a long time, I’ve had the urge to move my email processing to Emacs. That would make Email one more function that I wouldn’t have to leave Emacs to handle. I have found three candidate packages for this: mew, … Continue reading →

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Org Mode Links to Git Commits

Posted on 2014-08-07 by jcs

One of the nice things about writing with the Org-mode mark-up language is the ability to easily add links to external sources such as HTTP links or mail messages. But what about linking to a Git commit? Happily, there’s a … Continue reading →

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Generating Graphs with Org and Dot

Posted on 2014-08-06 by jcs

When I want to draw graph-like pictures I almost always use dot from the graphviz suite. The language is simple and it’s easy to generate it programmatically. Still, I don’t do it every day and so I always have to … Continue reading →

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The Emacs *‍Scratch*‍ Buffer

Posted on 2014-08-05 by jcs

Many people consider the Emacs *‍scratch*‍ buffer mysterious. This is true even though, by default, it includes a message telling you what to use it for. I like it and use it often. Others, not so much. Despite that default … Continue reading →

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Speaking of Logical Conclusions

Posted on 2014-08-04 by jcs

Yesterday, I wrote about the logical conclusion of government surveillance in democracies. If you’re wondering what the end result looks like in the large, here’s the answer. The most horrifying part of the linked story is: Singapore’s program is modeled … Continue reading →

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Emacs in a Year

Posted on 2014-08-04 by jcs

Chen Bin, who you may recognize from the Emacs and ErgoEmacs Google+ communities or from his blog, has an interesting essay on GitHub about how to master Emacs in a year. The essay is really the steps that Bin followed … Continue reading →

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The Logical Conclusion

Posted on 2014-08-03 by jcs

I’ve been writing, recently, about surveillance abuses in the United States. Just in case my European pals are imagining that this is an NSA problem that mainly concerns America with a few residual casualties in Europe, consider this logical conclusion … Continue reading →

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