The blog is working. Thanks, Sco++.
I'm finally getting around to publishing my updated website. I've got grand plans for content, and we'll just have to wait and see how much of it materializes. I'm also trying to get things updated for the pending Django 1.0 release.
Overall, living in Utah is not as bad as I had originally thought. The mountains are pretty, neighbors are friendly, and the Linux/OSS community (one of my big interests) is strong.
However, one thing I can't stand is driving here. I'm reminded of it every day when I drive to or home from work. Some of my major beefs are excessive speed, tailgating, waste of gas, and poor lane usage.
The speed limit on most highways is 65 MPH, 75 when you get further away from towns. Lots of major streets in town are 45. These are quite a bit faster than what I'm used to in Illinois, where most streets are 30 or 35, and highways get up to 65. I always go at least the speed limit, but can't figure out why people are compelled to consistently drive 15+ MPH over the speed ...
Restructured text (ReST) is a plaintext markup format. I find it great for documentation and note-taking, and it plays nice with revision control, such as git.
One thing that gets a little tedious is underlining for sections. When you create a section title, the number of (nonalphanumeric 7-bit ASCII) characters underlining the title must match the number of characters in the title. For example, a section called "My Section" would need 10 "-" on the next line, assuming you're using dashes.
Using vim as an editor, you have three options for inserting the dashes. You could:
<esc>10i-<esc> (insert ten dashes).
(Naturally, it should be defined in your vimrc file)
function ReST_Extend_Line()
let cur = getline(".")
let prev = getline( line(".") - 1 )
return repeat ...There's a little bit of buzz going on about Ubiquity, a UI enhancement for Firefox. Firefox already has hundreds of UI enhancements, but this one is a little different. If you've used Quicksilver on Mac OS X, you may notice Ubiquity feels somewhat similar to it. Basically, you can take something (a piece of a web page) and quickly perform an command with/on it.
The commands are nothing more than javascript snippets. But, because usable web APIs are growing in number and usefulness, Ubiquity has the opportunity to create and fill a need we never knew we had. There are already Firefox extensions that do a lot of what Ubiquity can do now, but Ubiquity is a framework, like greasemonkey, that allows developers to quickly build usability tools for users.
For a 0.1 release, Ubiquity comes with lots of commands. Working with search engines, social web ...