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Entries from February 26th, 2009

Last time I logged into MS Windows(tm)

February 26th, 2009 Comments

Two years ago and a laptop ago I booted into windows, and noticed it was still showing the Packard Bell desktop also that I had barely installed anything on it. I had been using the laptop for like six months.
After realizing that I thought, this is stupid, I could use this space for something useful. [...]

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Denting-mode mercurial repository

February 20th, 2009 Comments

Well I have setup a proper repository to track the changes to denting-mode, I have received a patch from Christian Cheng with some really nice and welcome changes:

Support Laconica deployed to a context that is not the root.
Support retrieval of the public timeline.
Fixed to handle wierd characters in response body.
Enhanced to [...]

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Small updates for denting mode

February 17th, 2009 Comments

I have just added a small modification to denting-mode:

(defun denting-update-status-from-region (beg end)

  (interactive "r")

  (if (> (- end beg) 140) (setq end (+ beg 140)))

  (if (< (- end beg) -140) (setq beg (+ end 140)))

  (denting-update-status-if-not-blank (buffer-substring beg end)))

This small function will try to post to laconica the region, if the
region is over 140 [...]

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Emacs Denting mode for laconicas (including identi.ca)

February 16th, 2009 Comments

I guess one of the main advantages that laconica has is being twitter compatible because if you have the source you can get a twitter only app to work on any laconica instance, so I found the twittering mode for emacs here:
http://lambdarepos.svnrepository.com/share/trac.cgi/browser/lang/elisp/twittering-mode
Then I decided to port it to laconica so I could use [...]

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First post

February 1st, 2009 Comments

Well this is my first post of the year and Im glad I found lt;a href=quot;http://blog.nethazard.net/emacs-weblogger-mode-with-wordpress-tags-support/quot;gt;Emacs Weblogger with Tagslt;/agt; for wordpress, WP 2.7 dashboard is cute but an online editor will never be as good as emacs or it will be so easy for me to create a blog post even when using firefoxs its [...]

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