I finally switched my blog from WordPress. Despite my aversion to ruby, I went with Octopress. It’s a little easier to work with and has a slightly nicer default infrastructure.

I have a Windows partition on my machine, because sometimes there are things wine can’t handle, and sometimes I need more performance than VirtualBox can handle.

So recently I’ve been getting all my games to run under linux. As part of this process, I’m learning all about my ATI drivers, because graphics drivers are universally terrible. However, under linux, you can tinker more freely to make them (slightly) less terrible.

I like minecraft, a lot, on occassion. But it needs a few tweaks for me to really get into it. I’m going to document them now:

So I use Vim as my primary editor. Unfortunately, some applications I require (e.g. Proof General) run only on the Emacs operation system, which comes with a terrible editor. Thankfully, I’ve found a pretty decent port of Vim to Emacs, called (appropriately) Evil.

A while back, I got really sick of sometimes accidentally rm-ing a file. I thought “Woe is me, if only I had a command that, instead, hid the file away from me, in a place I knew of but didn’t really thing about, so I could recover it if I wanted it.”.

Disclaimer: I typed this is a hurry and haven’t proof-read it, or tried running any of the code (except the script at the end).

So a while ago I decided to use git to track all my dot-files and other assorted configuration stuff that each of my linux systems need. I’m going to try to outline how I did this:

A friend posted a link to a NY Times article the other day, and I stumbled upon a way to get behind their pay-wall. I thought I’d share:

1. Install NoScript.

2. Go to NY Times and leave everything blocked.

3. Click Today’s Paper

4. Open a arbitrary article.

Now it seems you can click through any NY Times link, as I was able to click through the posted link.

I’ve been doing a lot of Haskell programming lately. At first, I really liked it.

Modern society is baffling.