http://www.caseygibbs.com/notes www.caseygibbs.com Sun, 20 Dec 2009 16:04:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well that was fast and easy. Configuring now. http://www.caseygibbs.com/notes/?p=38 Sunday morning. Today is one of our Christmases, the first of I think three we'll have with family this year, and the biggest. Per tradition we made our Bacon Cheddar soup, this year an experimental tripling of the recipe (appears to have come out fine). I am currently, though in ... http://www.caseygibbs.com/notes/?p=37 The semester being finished, I finally upgraded to the latest version of Ubuntu, and for the fun and experience of it switched to KDE, which I so far am enjoying, especially Konqueror. Small adjustments, etc. I do most of my stuff on the command line anyway. Also using the break ... http://www.caseygibbs.com/notes/?p=36 ....hard to ignore the feeling of satisfaction. http://www.caseygibbs.com/notes/?p=35 ...is in. Finished it last night. It was for the crash-course class I took over two weeks in the Fine High Summer. Stumbling slick and top-heavy into the sodden murk of December, I have less enthusiasm for the work. Final #2 due Monday and #3 due Thursday. http://www.caseygibbs.com/notes/?p=34 Got a Hunchentoot server running and working properly in my Lisp :) --Dumbass hint for anyone else who tries to do this: run your emacs as a superuser when you install everything. http://www.caseygibbs.com/notes/?p=33 So, for my 452 final, as previously mentioned, I'm working up some Lisp. One of the obstacles to doing so is, how ought I to turn it in? 1. Save a log of my programs in action on my own machine, annotate it, turn it in as a text file? 2. Export ... http://www.caseygibbs.com/notes/?p=32 Sunday night. I'm working on a case study of the USA PATRIOT Act, due as a final exam on some 12/03. PDF's, bibliographies, citation trails, emacs (always emacs). Zotero is a citation manager plugin for Firefox that I use; it previously obstructed my use of my library's proxied access to ... http://www.caseygibbs.com/notes/?p=31 ...Is the language I'm teaching myself, finding it, as I do, much easier to understand than the Python and (god forbid) Java I've seen (which isn't much), though I do dig it much when knowledgeable old friend JM tells me that my parens and lambdas smack of socialism. The ultra-simple ... http://www.caseygibbs.com/notes/?p=30 After fiddling around for literally months I have learned that emacs comes as a standard part of OS X - you just have to run it from the terminal. *n.b. I am not a mac owner. I just have to use one at work. http://www.caseygibbs.com/notes/?p=29