Monthly Archives: January 2009

Server-Side Spambayes

With most spam filtering systems,  I always have to check for (or at least worry about) ham that’s been misclassified as spam, and I sometimes have to look at spam messages in my inbox.  Life’s too short. For years now … Continue reading

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Git Along, Lil' Dogie

In a recent post I mentioned that I was going to stop resisting a 100% commitment to Emacs. While I was working on the first step of reorganizing my .emacs stuffs, I also gave up resisting git. I’m now working … Continue reading

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Resistance Is Futile

This blog started out with the tagline “Computers? No damn good,” but the theme has been fast evolving away from what lazy good-for-nothings programmers can be and towards documenting my process of learning to find the path of least resistance. … Continue reading

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Gnu Fry

All weekend and into today I’ve been hacking my .emacs setup to make it fast, beautiful, and functional, and along the way I’m learning a bit of Git. I’ve always been a little jaded about FSF absolutism when it comes … Continue reading

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Emacs? Damn Good.

Okay, computers are no damn good, and leave bugs, undocumented features, and Things That Just Don’t WorkTM all over the place.  But I have resolved something: Emacs Is The AnswerTM to all my computer usability problems.  I know Emacs ain’t … Continue reading

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