Month: April 2006

Dylan is to Lisp as Ruby is to Smalltalk

Chris astutely observed that Ruby is Smalltalk for people who have to have files. Well I think that Dylan is Lisp for people who hate parentheses. Or if you prefer analogies: Dylan is to Lisp as Ruby is to Smalltalk. Both try to...

EmacsFirefox

Editing .xpi files directly in Emacs

One cool feature of Emacs is that it lets you directly edit the contents of various archive files like .zip, .tar, .lzh, .jar, etc. Out of the box, though, Emacs isn't setup to edit .xpi files automatically, but it's easy to...

General

Coyote Smelly

Did that just say "coyote urine"? Why yes it did. Apparently it repels certain animals like deer, cats, and dogs. Wonder if that includes humans?...

General

Weird Mac OS X error

Weird Mac OS X error, originally uploaded by msabramo. I've never seen this one before! Unresolved kernel trap(cpu 0): 0x300 - Data access DAR=0x00000000F76D066C PC=0x00000000000AA6AC Latest crash info for cpu 0: Exception state...

GtDPython

My funky Pythony Unix GtD system

Back in December, I talked about PyGTD and mentioned that I'd been messing around with my own homebrew system. To be honest, I haven't been using it regularly lately (self-flagellation), but a few people have asked about it, so I...