Blogging

Preface # First, hugo can (and does) use two formats, YAML (—) and TOML (+++). It is recommended:

Ooof, that was rough. Blogger underwent many migrations since I used it last, and whatever migration tooling people have come up with in the intervening years, all are now broken, unsurprisingly. After much Gemini poking, back-and-forth, we arrived at this, which “works” (reads atom.feed):

Good blog post about running Emacs in daemon mode: http://emacs-fu.blogspot.com/2009/02/emacs-daemon.html Also a thread on how to cleanly shut the daemon down: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1167484/how-to-gracefully-shutdown-emacs-daemon

Various notes on trying to get latest Ubuntu (11.*) running on my AO522 netbook. Useful links; http://phoronix.com/forums/showthread.php?31961-Notes-on-Acer-Aspire-One-522 http://kered.org/blog/2011-02-24/acer-ao522-linux-compatibility-and-memory-upgrade-procedure/ http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1543009&page=17 http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1680348&page=2

Some instructions here: http://publicint.blogspot.com/2010/06/setup-googlecl-on-winxp.html However, it seems newest versions of the googlecl tool come pre-built. The only issue was I was missing MSVCRT71.dll file. This can be obtained for Windows 7 here: http://www.addictivetips.com/windows-tips/fix-msvcp71-dll-and-msvcr71-dll-missing-error-in-windows-7/

Hilarious: http://www.cracked.com/blog/2008/09/05/the-issue-sarah-palin-must-address-i-want-to-see-her-naked/

Dangerous Ideas: Productivity is Overrated Dangerous Ideas: What If Everything We Thought Was True About Productivity Was Wrong? What Makes an Interesting Life Interesting? How to Make Resolutions that Stick In fact, many of the other posts are quite interesting as well on that blog. Definitely a blog I’ll be keeping an eye on, I find a lot of the author’s observations to be quite penetrating and mirroring my own experience and half-baked thoughts.

I should go to one of these… DemoCamp Interesting blog post on the topic: post In particular, it mentions a thread being used to put together a “subway map” of tech companies in Toronto: thread

I didn’t realize that Sacha Chua has come to UofT, and is currently on the verge of completing her Master’s! Her blog is here: http://sachachua.com/notebook/wiki/today.php It’s been a while. Last time I exchanged emails with her is when she maintained the Emacs planner mode, which I used at the time.

http://www.academicproductivity.com/blog/