Monthly Archives October 2006

Get Things Done

Well I’ve used Emacs planner for more than 2 years everyday, and really happy about it.
However, as I got more and more rely on it, I can still find some room for improvement, but not easy to do:

It is all text based. This is good in some way, but bad in some other way. Say […]

zsh is powerful

Well I’ve been using bash since I first met the Unix world. I did some research at that time, maybe 7 years ago. And I know zsh is powerful at that time. However, zsh doesn’t support unicode, thus I can’t use Chinese, at that time. So I choosed bash.
However, things are changing recently. The newest […]

google reader losing post

Well I said google_reader is nice yesterday, I found some problem with it: Its interval between grab the feed is too high. And it lost some of the posts on high traffic sites.
For example, the feed for verycd is first updated at 3:19 AM today. This means the update interval is more than 3 hours. […]

quixote is not ready for python 2.5

I tried to upgrade to Python 2.5 today, however, some of the packages I use daily is not ready, including quixote.
At least on change in compile.ast.From makes quixote 2.4 not working in Python 2.5.
I think I’ll stick with Python 2.4 till more packages come to work with 2.5.

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google reader

Google has updated their RSS reader recently. Many reviewers on the net said this makes it “more like a traditional reader”. I agree.
However, Google provides some unique featers. The one I like most is the keyboard shortcut. This makes the reading much convience. I can even pick with channel to read by keyboard!
Thinking about moving […]

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