New Blog Goals

Lately many of you have been complaining that I am not updating enough. Well I agree. I've been having a very busy life, and it's been hard to prioritize writing a blog about something that everyone else is writing about. Though that is a cop out. I have original ideas, and they should be at least worth writing about. You don't have to read them if you don't want to. So in order to get my mind in the ...

Emacs Productivity

Let me first preface this with the following statement: I still use vim to edit text files. Hell, I used vim to configure emacs.

Now that we have that out of the way, let's talk about productivity! I attempt to implement Getting Things Done in my daily life. I need to manage projects, contexts, and next actions. I've been using todotxt for the past semester with much success.. but the one missing link was email. ...

Have You Linuxed Today?

One thing I've been reading a lot lately is that GNU/Linux is utter crap on the desktop.

I used to agree with this sentiment. I thought that the problems you run into on a GNU/Linux desktop are not well documented, and hardware support was lacking. I use GNU/Linux for my reasons, many of them based on principles. I believe in the open source movement, and I encourage others to contribute or be a part of it.

But ...