Well, we have a new president.

Well, we have a new president. To quote Emperor Gregor, "Let's see what happens."

Followup to don’t live with a broken IDE: Not the smallest broken thing.

On top of the fundamentals of actually having indent-mode working correctly, I also changed one minuscule detail.  On Emacs, just about every damn thing is configurable, including the typefaces used for each and every mode visible.  One of the things that’s been bothering me forever is that, on a huge monitor, the cursor frequently got lost.  It was a dull orange color on the traditional light-grey Emacs background, which made it hard to find.

I changed it to a bright yellow, and that has also made a huge difference.  When changing panels (CTRL-x o) or just searching (CTRL-s), just moving the cursor a little bit can make it stand out now.

Since I use a keyboard-driven IDE with very little mousing, I recommend unclutter, a nice little program that also hides the mouse pointer after a brief timeout.  If you move the mouse, the pointer comes back.  Sometimes, the pointer is right above that tiny fragment of text you want to read.  Having it go away to leave your reading uninterrupted is quite nice.

And finally, under the Enlightenment window manager, Ctrl-Enter nails the current window to the top of the screen and blacks out everything underneath.  Useful if you need to manage your distractions.

This entry was automatically cross-posted from Elf's technical journal, ElfSternberg.com

Just a small reminder: You are still being lied to

You may have heard the following: "The Bush Administration's 2005 Inauguration Day only cost $42 million dollars; the Obama Administation's 2009 Inauguration Day cost $160 million."

When you hear that, remember this: you are being lied to.

The Bush Administration's 2005 celebration actually cost closer to $157 million dollars. The above figures were floated on the FOX morning show Fox and Friends, but they're a meaningless comparison because they're comparing the wrong tallies: the $42 million dollars is what the Bush Inaugural Committee said it spent; the $160 million dollars is an estimate based on what the Obama Inaugural Committee has said it raised from private donations, plus civil and security expenses FOX somehow "forgot" to add to the Bush Inauguration total.

The media, so long the lapdog of the White House, has already started to peddle the meme of "overspending Democrats," even before the new president has been sworn in, when what we really have is a better accounting, rather than a hiding of the receipts.

Eric Boehlert dismantles the nonsense.