Archive for January, 2009
Unique shell helper for Emacs
To launch a shell in Emacs, you can use M-x shell. However, when you want to launch another one, you have to name the second shell.
Build your own face
Here’s a fun diversion, especially if you enjoyed Mr Potato head — Veer’s Unusual Suspects has a face builder with some odd features.
at the rate of
Trivia of the day – one funny thing you might find as you share data verbally across cultural boundaries is that names for bits of punctuation aren’t as universal as names for letters. Heck, even with letters I remember my British physics Mech Engineering teacher referring to “z” as “zed” (“zed zed 9 plural zed [...]