Author Archives: bradfonseca
Google shutting down XMPP interoperability is a sad sign of the age of communication silos
Too many walled gardens and not enough choice as to who can access your data.
Why Government Is Not A Business
There’s more than enough information on the Internet right now about the havoc being inflicted on the United States by President Donald Trump and his associates. However, there are two perspectives… Source: Why Government Is Not A Business
Setting Mastery
Back when D&D 3 came out, the designers talked about “system mastery.” Knowing the system better always helped you play a more powerful, effective character, but 3e made this an exp… Source: Setting Mastery
Time to Repartition the Hard Drive? (Maybe not…)
Figure 1: Attribution: Mageia 5 Installer Documentation – Partitioning with DrakX (http://doc.mageia.org/installer/5/en/content/doPartitionDisks.html) It’s been a hairy few weeks. Looking at my WordPress folder on my laptop I see my last post was back in the middle of March! I could enumerate a nice long list for you of why I’ve been away but I’m sure […]
Quick Post About Uploading Images Via Org-mode and Org2Blog
Figure 1: Attribution: By ~~helix84 (2007), Philverney (9 November 2005), David Vignoni (December 6, 2005) LGPL: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl.html or Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (search for “Icon – upload photo 2.svg”) Today I’m experimenting with image uploads on org-mode and org2blog. I don’t expect to write a lot but hopefully I’ll learn a bit. 😀 I […]
TILiE (Today I’m Learning in Emacs): PDF Publishing, Text Formatting in Org-Mode, and (Maybe) My Next Big Project!
Figure 1: By Another Believer (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0) ], via Wikimedia Commons Link to original image | Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0) The last week or so has actually been pretty busy in my personal life and at work. Professionally, I gained a new part-time consulting client which is only going […]
Useful? – 29 Common Beginner Python Errors
29 common beginner Python errors on one page. Via Imgur #Python #Programming #Sysadmin View post on imgur.com
Today’s Quote from The Economist Espresso
I wish Douglas Adams was still with us. 😦
TILiE (Today I’m Learning in Emacs): Printing & Exporting and Publishing in Org-mode
Figure 1: Attribution: en:User:Petteri (via CC Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported) Link to original image | Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) I’m still feeling quite sluggish, really since yesterday, hence my earlier post. Still, I want to write something today because I learned a couple neat things in Emacs around printing. I’m also trying to […]
