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- Plans for 2009January 4
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General stuff
- Spend less time in front of the computer
- Exercise more
- Learn to cook, to work with the washing machine and other house-keeping tasks1
Computer geek stuff
- Learn emacs (or vim, but I want to learn Lisp) so I can go use Textmate without any regrets.
- Try OpenBSD with xmonad, awesome or other tiling window manager.
- Start my own programming language (just for the sake of it)
- Forget IE6
Geek stuff
- Get into photography OR
- Learn how to draw (yeah, I failed at drawing, painting and all those arts while I was a kid).
1 I am planning on studying abroad for one year. If all goes well, Poland it is.
- UK Police is full of hackersJanuary 4
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Police set to step up hacking of home PCs
THE Home Office has quietly adopted a new plan to allow police across Britain routinely to hack into people’s personal computers without a warrant.
1. Wow, it was not only Sherlock Holmes, they now have big bad h4×0rs that can hack into any computer :O
2. Without a warrant? Are these guys nuts? What about the concept of privacy? Isn’t that a human right? At least tell the people when you are looking at their computer, just like with a regular warrant approved by court.
The hacking is known as “remote searching”. It allows police or MI5 officers who may be hundreds of miles away to examine covertly the hard drive of someone’s PC at his home, office or hotel room. Material gathered in this way includes the content of all e-mails, web-browsing habits and instant messaging.
3. Okay Google, you are forgiven.
A remote search can be granted if a senior officer says he “believes” that it is “proportionate” and necessary to prevent or detect serious crime — defined as any offence attracting a jail sentence of more than three years.
However, opposition MPs and civil liberties groups say that the broadening of
- I know you are listeningJanuary 2
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Today’s xkcd really made me smile. This is something I usually do, but in a different version. When I’m walking – my thinking time, even if it’s walking in circles in my basement – I usually think louder “i know you are listening” and one-way conversations to myself, since it is possible that in the future our memories will be stored in The Archives and anyone could browse them, and see whatever is inside your head.
Yeah, I lack faith in those privacy laws…
- EspressoDecember 30 2008
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Espresso is the new Code Editor from MacRabbit, the guys behind CSSEdit.
The public beta was announced as a “textmate’s competition”. I have tried the beta since 0.2 and I don’t really agree with that statement.
Espresso is a really beautiful editor. But that doesn’t matter to programmers, that nowadays seem to be migrating to old school editors. It matters for those designer/programmer hybrid stereotype. Guys that do Web-Development, but don’t have a CS background.
But even for those, I don’t believe Espresso would be the best choice. This kind of editor is as good as the languages/frameworks/etc supported. Textmate has a lot of Bundles, and that’s where I see the power of TM, not in the editor itself.
Today I spent a while installing Sugars, the Espresso-branded bundles. There are a few right now, but still very poor compared to tmbundles. And I believe even with time, they are not getting any near textmate’s when it comes down to productivity.
If you take a look at the SDK wiki, you’ll see that all the components of a script are very editor oriented. Although I li
- 9December 29 2008
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What I believe it’s going to be a great movie!
Make yourself a favour and watch the trailer.