Blog - /Personal

I love picking strange-sounding titles for my entries. I suppose I should explain myself. Very well. I'm back at Bethel College, which is like a secluded wonderland, hence the reference to Alice in Wonderland. I have October break through Tuesday, so I will be hacking on a project for my old boss that I was unable to complete in August. I also hope to catch up with a few friends.

I talked with my CS prof on Wednesday, which was a good experience. I prepared a listing of issues that I had with the test, and was able to get one of my answers counted as correct. We were unable to come to an agreement about a binary to hexadecimal conversion question (the question implicitly assumed that the "negative" number should be transformed to positive first, and I said that wasn't obvious enough since no appropriate action verbs were used). I managed to brag on Projects: Emacs Wiki Mode a bit since I saw that he was using XEmacs.

I really really should try to find an easier way to publish blog entries. Having to manually copy entries to different pages (and having to open a page manually instead of with a single key sequence) is driving me crazy. It also limits the number of blog entries I can produce, much to the concern of one of my ardent readers ;^) . The problem is that I would have to make substantial changes to emacs-wiki-journal.el or learn to use Projects: Emacs Muse (which I should do anyway), but I'm waiting on the author to improve his Journal support for it. Sigh. I guess there's always MoinMoin.

Now that I am setting up PLUG's new look, I am really getting into MoinMoin. I want a local blog setup, and perhaps this would be a good tool to use. It would allow for user comments, which would be nice. I can even insert entries by use of a tag instead of hand-copying them. But I would hate to turn away from using emacs-wiki / Muse.

BTW: In all fairness, it is only the screwy acting of the publisher that caused my outrage in my last CategoryPersonal blog entry. Lawrence Lessig allows the book to be downloaded for free on the Free Content part of his site.