My current smartphone is so unreliable now I need to fall back to a dumbphone. Rather than running out to buy a new smartphone, I will log here what it feels like with a dumbphone. I will do this to see what I really need, and I dont want to fork out 5 kkr on a phone that is obsolete before i even get it. First of all, …

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Upgrading Fedora is pretty safe most of the times. This one time I had issues with the openssl package having a change that wasnt compatible with x2go. Since I use x2go all the time I wanted to pin the version of openssl to libssh-0.5.5-1.fc20. 1yum install yum-plugin-versionlock 2yum versionlock libssh And that was …

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I read a lot of floss mailing lists, and hang around on freenode. I counsider myself a part of the community. Sometimes i think though, that some people simply dont know how to be nice. They would seem to have insults and belitteling comments bound to shortcuts in their editors of choice. Living, as i do, inside emacs, …

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I use Emacs all the time. My most important Emacs runs in my own server, which I access remotely either through a tty terminal, or a graphical session. The terminal can either be plain ssh, or mosh. The graphical session is x2go at the moment. Since I always want an Emacs running, and I want to access the same emacs …

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I've bought some new work equipment for 2014. A MS Surface Pro running Fedora and an Ergodox keyboard. The idea is that I more or less never want to change the keyboard, but the computer part more often. So far I'm making progress, but I'm still not as produktive with my new setup as with my old trusty Thinkpad. The …

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I don't actually watch television myself, but sometimes when I'm abroad I help out with downloading programs from svt play, the swedish television play on demand service. Not that im a media snob or anything, I'm just too busy reading Manga or Warhammer novels to have time with television. SVT play is a bit funny, …

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So, I had the bestest ever thought today at the beach. How can you not have beatiful thoughts when the weather is great, the sea is salty, and the shade soothing? Now the thought is gone though, and no effort of mine brings it back. Normally I capture my thoughts in Emacs Org mode, and normally I can access my Emacs …

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I enjoy painting digitally using Inkscape. I have an experimental Mediagoblin installation at http://mg.verona.se/u/jave/ for the illustrations.

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Joakims notes My intent is to work with Joseph to improve tarot.el. Here are the things I'd like to do: TODO Multiple decks Initially just the standard deck and a deck consisting of only the major arcana. TODO Multiple spreads I would like more spreads, the celtic cross to begin with. TODO User shuffling after the deck …

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Emacs currency conversion Now and then I need to convert between different currencies. curconv.el provides some Emacs functions to do this. This initial implementation is fairly simple and works like this. Get an API key from https://openexchangerates.org/ (setq curconv-api-key "my-api-key") …

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