See Part One

I tried to run init.el from within my existing emacs, but got an error, so I launched it suppressing my config-files

emacs -q -l d:\home\emacs.js\init.el

Basically got the following error (although with a longer trace indicating where it had occured):

Debugger entered--Lisp error: (invalid-function (tool-bar-mode -1))
  ((tool-bar-mode -1) (menu-bar-mode -1) (scroll-bar-mode -1))
  (if window-system ((tool-bar-mode -1) (menu-bar-mode -1) (scroll-bar-mode -1)))
  eval((if window-system ((tool-bar-mode -1) (menu-bar-mode -1) (scroll-bar-mode -1))))
  eval-last-sexp-1(nil)
  eval-last-sexp(nil)
  call-interactively(eval-last-sexp nil nil)

The root seems to be THIS snippet that doesn’t like to work from appearance.el

(if window-system
    ((tool-bar-mode -1)
     (menu-bar-mode -1)
     (scroll-bar-mode -1)))

Now, each of those lines can execute individually, but none of them like to execute in that block.

Why is that?

Oh, my elisp-fu is woefully faded.

hrm. THIS seems to work:

(if window-system
    (progn (tool-bar-mode -1)
           (menu-bar-mode -1)
           (scroll-bar-mode -1)))

so. I update that.

Now,

set-default-font: Font Inconsolata-12′ is not defined

jeebus.

End Part Two

read Part One

I’m still trying to figure out how I should be using my wiki and my blog – what content goes where?

I’ve been putting a lot more this-is-what-I-did notes into the wiki, and cleaning them up as I redo it/find other/better ways.

I’m going to try putting them HERE in the blog first (in pmwiki-markup), and then clean them up a bit for the wiki.

That’s the idea, anyway….

This is Part One; read Part Two

So, I decided to test-install emacs.js

NOTE: the installation instructions presume Linux. Because: 1337. Because: Us windows users suck.

Or something like that.

NOTE: the notes below are pretty much unedited transcripts of my attempts to get this to work. They are more a reflection on my unfamiliarity with cygwin than they are of the lack of Windows installation docs. Although making this into an ELPA package would solve this problem in one fell swoop.

$ cd /usr/ssl/certs
$  curl http://curl.haxx.se/ca/cacert.pem | awk 'split_after==1{n++;split_after=0} /-----END CERTIFICATE-----/ {split_after=1} {print > "cert" n ".pem"}'
$ c_rehash

$ c_rehash
bash: c_rehash: command not found

$ c_rehash
bash: /usr/bin/c_rehash: /usr/local/bin/perl: bad interpreter: Permission denied

$ env GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true git clone https://github.com/azer/emacs.js
Cloning into 'emacs.js'...
remote: Counting objects: 360, done.
remote: Compressing objects: 100% (173/173), done.
remote: Total 360 (delta 186), reused 344 (delta 171)
Receiving objects: 100% (360/360), 109.09 KiB | 173 KiB/s, done.
Resolving deltas: 100% (186/186), done.

export GIT_SSL_NO_VERIFY=true
make

• Reworking my personal “vanity” site so it uses Boostrap and FlatUI (here’s an in-progress version)
• Working on docs (Javascript, others) at the EmacsWiki
• Working on the PmWikiBootrap theme and starter-kit
• Working on some Sketches
• Learning node.js
• Learning org-mode
• Working on documentation and momentum (???) for ScrewTurnWiki
• Scribbling notes on my thoughts about wiki(s)
• Playing around with Pinterest
• Playing around with Trello

This is a vague list of some of the things I’m planning on doing (outside of, you know, “work”)

• More integration between WordPress and PmWiki — ideally, the search in each should be able to search the other.
• Intermap works better for each.
• For WordPress, either add widgets to this theme, or get a new theme (gasp!) ???
• For PmWiki, keep working on the Bootstrap theme, along with alternate styling.
• Sketches – using LocalStorage, ability to “paint” with words, and store the results.
• Sketches – use node.js for some utility work, so code and utilities are using the same language (javascript)
• Sketches – move to public github repo, instead of private bitbucket repo
• Finish my personal “vanity” site

Local version, Newark Review version.

This was actually back in January. My blog-posting has been a bit…. slow.

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Looks like Threeplicate SRL, the company that produced ScrewTurnWiki has shut down completely. I hadn’t realized that.

This gives a better understanding as to why they stopped STW development in 2012, and to why they aren’t communicating so much right now.

What’s really surprising is that the shutdown appears to have happened in June/July, and communications regarding development hand-over to the community didn’t cease until September (or so).

UPDATE 2013.05.15: The STW community is coming together over @ https://stw.codeplex.com

There ain’t no cheap flying cars, but we are living in the future, it’s pretty well distributed [in my first world] — we’re just blinded by its ubiquity.

ShelterKit – not as fancy as the FabCabs, but cheaper.

I’m tired of opening a new tab for Netflix, waiting for it to load, then typing in whatever I’m searching for.

Netflix has so much JavaScript AJAXY-goodness on it’s page that it takes YEARS to load. Well, seconds. 5 seconds? 10 seconds? AN ETERNITY!

And I’m likely to forget what I was looking for in such an abnormal span of time (relative to my attention-spa… oooh, shiny!).

So I wrote a FireFox bookmarklet to easily do a search for me.

1. Create a new bookmark
2. add the code (below) to the location
3. enter a memorable keyword (like, say “nf”)

Now, open a new tab, enter your keyword, followed by your search words, like:

and you’ll get your results!

The code will accept single-quotes, but searches for titles by default, and will probably break if you want to start throwing crap in there.

If you don’t pass in any search-terms, it defaults to the Netflix home-page.

It’s simple, but if you have an idea for more functionality, let me know in the comments.