I’ve been so enjoying on-the-fly spellchecking in Safari that I wanted it in Emacs, too. Flyspell was mentioned in an aside in a MacDevCenter article, and I have it running now. It took me a while to figure out how to set up the hook to run it automatically (because I forget geek stuff faster than I learn it) - I found some examples in people’s on-line .emacs files: Thomas Krennwallner and Anoop Johnson.
Some mac moments:
Wired ran an article recently on bloggers burning out. They mean the big-time bloggers, of course, not us small fry, but the phenomenon is the same.
Although I’ve been burning out on fandom for most of the time I’ve been in fandom, blogging has never worn me down. I’ve been canning content recently where other bloggers might shut down, but the joy of blogging hasn’t gone away. In writing fanfic the tropes pile up until you’ve seen them all, but with link blogging, there’s always something new and fascinating on-line. You never really reach the end of the Internet.
MustangSally has an interesting LiveJournal entry on the history of stirrups.
There’s a Dashboard Gadget repository up already, the Dashboarder. John Gruber has more to say on the Konfabulator issue, including an interesting quote from Larry Niven on paying for fan ideas.
Sadly, I am out of town and missing MacWorld Boston 2004. Apple is also out of town…
From an anonymous source who doesn’t seem to have blogged about this himself yet: Kerry/Edwards Slash via Instapundit and the John Squared LJ Community.
Quote of the day: My Luftwaffe is invincible. And now we turn to England. How long will this one last - two, three weeks? –Hermann Goering, June, 1940
The Battle of Britain began on July 10th, 1940 and continued through October 31st, although the issue was more or less decided on September 15th. You can find day-by-day information at BattleOfBritain.net and RAF.mod.uk.
R.J. Anderson talks about the joy of the fanfix. I appreciate fandoms like Trek where the source is rife with gaffes to be fixed. For me it’s all about the fix—Stargate doesn’t have nearly enough problems for proper fixing…but I love it anyway.
Charlie Stross reports that the otherwise-promising LitterMaid “sounds like a tank landing craft with lubrication difficulties making its way through a railway stockyard.”
Caveat emptor…
I’ve been playing around with UTF-8 entities, since I always want one I can’t find. Here are some links I found:
I generated my own entity page with PHP as well. As soon as I decide where to put it up, I’ll link it.