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Actually, philosophers call that the Oenophile's Quandary ! Presented with something that, over time, increases in quality (like wine) ...

I find this article very useful. It walks you through setting up Emacs to download ELPA/MELPA packages over TLS, and also verifying the ce...

I might as well put them in one place. Emacs (from trunk): ./configure --without-pop --with-x-toolkit=lucid \ --prefix=/usr/local/src ...

Pakistan's FBR , the tax collectors, recently published a PDF file with a list of all tax payers, both corporate and individual. (There...

The other day I was helping a co-worker set up Ubuntu in VirtualBox, to simulate the production servers.  At one point, I told him to search...

Oil prices have fallen worldwide.  I wanted to see how much of that drop is reflected in the price I pay for gasoline at the pump.  Is the c...

One of my brothers went to Saudi Arabia with his family for umrah a couple of weeks ago.  He was able to spend a few days visiting places ...

Getting chibi-scheme to work with Native Client was easier than I expected.  I used chibi-scheme 0.7 pepper-37 Chrome 40 on OS X 10.9...

I've tried tiling window managers before, and I haven't been happy with them (especially with how they fail to deal with transient m...

For a while now, I've wanted a desktop background like xearth, but with updated (near-live) imagery. I've found a bunch of services...

My grandmother turned 95 on Monday. She has trouble walking without help, and her short-term memory's not as good as it used to be, but...

I liked how the story built up slowly, and I enjoyed the "crime fiction" angle of the Event that led to the narrator leaving the t...

I bought the game a while ago (some Steam sale of LucasArts games), but I never got around to finishing it. The book was enjoyable.