Who organises the organisers?* Context, or On Rabbit Holes Sometimes one dives down a rabbit hole. Occasionally, down that hole one finds an actual rabbit;… Read More »Tuesday Tabsplosion: Org-Mode (The Basics)
Having recently gone through the rigmarole of yet more exams, I’m in a good position to talk about learning things*. Spaced repetition has been around… Read More »Better Learning With Anki
As someone who has been an avid, long-time user of the distro that bears his name, this is sad news. The Ars Technica article casts… Read More »Ian Murdock Has Passed Away
There are a number of ways of showing the progress of a dd copy. The easiest is sending the USER1 signal to the dd process,… Read More »Show Progress Bar During dd Copy
Let me paint a picture for you. It’s 1996. Clinton is in power in the US and can do no wrong, while on this side… Read More »Nostalgia is Playing Wipeout 2097 Again
This turned out to be dead easy, although it took a bit of futzing around due to my own slowness. The situation arose during an… Read More »Connect to a WPA/WPA2 Secured Network In Linux
So, as of yesterday evening, I’ve been here for a week. Since my last post I have moved out of the guest house. I’m grateful… Read More »One Week
Another after-the-fact post. This is written at about 1420 on the 9th of November. Right. So after sleeping in this morning (my room has no… Read More »Second Day
This post is retroactively posted as there’s no wifi at the place I’m staying. It’s 2242 local time (so 2142 UK time), and by now… Read More »Arrival
The title of this post conveniently ignores all the other pins I’ve earned, which must be at least…. for certain… that I know of… to… Read More »Finally, A Real Pin