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;; $HOME/.emacs ;;
(global-set-key
   [(control s)]
   'save-buffer)
(global-set-key
   [(control f)]
   'isearch-forward)
 (define-key isearch-mode-map
   [(control f)]
   'isearch-repeat-forward)

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I’ve been working on this for a while now. I’d like to produce a .emacs file that will completely remap the keybindings to some kind of standard.

The biggest problem seems to be the ctrl-x and ctrl-c behavior.

To those in the emacs community who say that the default behavior is superior, I won’t disagree. But ctrl-f is search in my browser, and whenever I hit ctrl-s to search, it tries to save the web page. So I figured I needed to retrain myself and emacs to a single standard.

An essay on Robots. Yes, robots will take over the world. Or worse, take away that menial labor job you have. So buy stock in RobotCorp now and reap the profits when they take away your job!

I went to Woodman’s (a local supermarket) yesterday to get a few of my digital photos printed. They came out great. Photos taken with a 2Mpixel digital look great printed at 8"x12".

[1] and [2] and [3]

All of my recent nightmares have been about high school lit classes. I guess tenth grade english left a lasting impression on me.

It now gets rid of apostrophies as well as spaces. It will then convert to lowercase unless it is a directory.

#!/usr/bin/perl
## ~/bin/despaceify ##
#DTPD#
foreach my $file (glob "*") {
  my $new = $file;
  $new =~ s/ /_/g;
  $new =~ s/\'//g;
  $new =~ tr/A-Z/a-z/
    if (system "test -d \"$file\"");
  system "mv -vi \"$file\" $new"
    if ($new ne $file);
}

I found some cool old photos floating around my hard drives. This one’s a gem. Also check out Mark’s Photos, which have been updated recently.

Looking at old photos it would seem that I gained a lot of weight while working at Epic. Desk jobs suck. Maybe I’ve got enough self control to stick to diet and excercise. But I doubt it.

While moving files around my harddrive, I was forced to update my…

This is what this pages looks likes in various browsers. Notice how NS47 degrades gracefully and IE60 ouputs garbage.

http://www.google.com/search?btnI=l &q=french+military+victories

http://www.google.com/search?btnI=l &q=weapons+of+mass+destruction

I put up more photos from last month’s traveling.

I learned a few cool things recently. How to rotate an image with the gimp (especially useful when there is a horizonatal horizon): Use the transform tool. I had never noticed that button before; I kept looking for rotation in the context menu, but that’s the wrong place to look.

Also, if you’ve got a B&W printer and want to print off a color image, use the “convert -charcoal” command to create a new image.

90% of the time you use a <hr> you are putting a divider between sections or subsections that are already (or should already) be divided by <h2>’s or <h3>’s. Instead use <div>’s to break up sections and subsections. So

<!--document.html-->
<h2>Welcome</h2>
<p>Paragraph</p>
<hr />

<h2>Blog</h2>
<p>Paragraph</p>
<hr />

becomes

<!--document.html-->
<div class="section">
  <h2>Welcome</h2>
  <p>Paragraph</p>
</div>

<div class="section">
  <h2>Blog</h2>
  <p>Paragraph</p>
</div>

The following css will produce a <hr> style border:

/* style.css */
div.section {
   border-bottom:
    solid 3px #000000 ;
 }

At this point you can have more fun with the css, without touching the html any more. (Isn’t that the point?) Try putting each <div class=”section”> in its own little colorful box.

Dont’s use “s/bleg/blarg/” when you mean to use “s/bleg/blarg/g”!