Well, off to play Scrabble by myself. Or something.

On #emacs today:

solaries: is it still advantageous to learn elisp? I tried to do it, but if you always compare it to Python you don’t find much incentive…
sachac: solaries: Incentive: you can’t program Emacs in Python. ;)
resolve: , pymacs
fsbot: resolve, PyMacs is at http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?PyMacs
resolve: but yeah, learn lisp, it’s fun :-)

I should stop making statements like that. “You can’t program Emacs in Python.” is like “You can’t play Tetris in Emacs.” Chances are, someone’s implemented the most obscure or outlandish of features… ;)

What can I give back to an institution that has supported me,
formed me, taught me, and challenged me to realize my potential?

Thanks to Ateneo, I learned:

• That it’s about people, not programs.
• That what I learn and do outside the classroom can matter more than what I learn and do inside it.
• That it’s not enough to know just _how_ to do something, but I also need to consider _why_.
• That I’ll start college wondering why the heck I take up philosophy and theology, and graduate realizing I wouldn’t be the same without them.
• That I should never stop learning,
• That I should never stop doing,
• That I should never stop teaching, and
• That I can make a difference.

I give you my gratitude and my thanks. But most of all, I would like to be able to give you, at the end of the day, a life well-lived.

Ateneo Scholarship Foundation
Escaler Hall, 3:30 Mass, followed by the program. Semi-formal. Bring a small gift.

“Jello’s the jock, Jove’s the lawyer. Joyce does architecture, Jaclyn does psych. And I’m Jay-jay.”

Fascinating. 479 hits for ~sachac/ ! Cool. I shall try my best to be somewhat interesting, then… ;)

Aadisht, you are for some inexplicable reason the top search query that leads to my site, according to http://richip.dhs.org/usage/usage_200303.html . Most strange.

Hmm. I got fairly distracted back there. Started reading up on
QuickBooks and trying to figure out how I can work with the cost
estimates. I think, however, that I _don’t_ have to worry about that
right now. The problem that needs to be solved is this: it’s hard to
keep track of schedules. So that’s what I need to solve first, before
I start thinking about funky integrated intranet systems.

Must find out how to debug…

Diane mentions the Nintendo Generation. Should be interesting – teaching tips?

Note: Do not edit /etc/lilo.conf, make the Linux image something else (/boot/bzImage instead of /vmlinuz) and still expect a kernel-image installation to do the right thing.

I should also think about trackbacks or some other way to let people who link to me let me know that they’re linking to me…

“If you wait long enough, someone will write/build/design what you were thinking about.” http://iawiki.net/LazyWeb

How did I get there?
Google:RSS+blog+etiquette (such a strange query!) led me to http://www.openp2p.com/pub/a/p2p/2003/01/07/lazyweb.html, which links to http://www.blackbeltjones.com/work/mt/archives/000190.html, which wasn’t very useful. Google:lazyweb got me http://www.lazyweb.org, though, which seemed to be the definitive resource, except it’s somewhat broken and it looks like a not-quite-popular version of http://www.halfbakery.com. However, it did link to http://iawiki.net/LazyWeb, which is good enough to link to.

- I need to have a “template”, because I’m just going to insert text.
- I need to update the timestamp of the RSS feed.
- I need to compose the RSS item.
- I need to insert it somewhere.

I wonder what RSS feed etiquette is. Should I make one huge RSS feed? Should I split it up by year?

chrisb wrote in with a tip about Hugo’s
http://larve.net/people/hugo/2003/scratchpad/RssForEmacsWiki.html .
emacs-wiki-rss.el makes very nice lists of the wiki pages I have, but
I was thinking more of publishing each journal entry (like this one!)
as an RSS item.

One way to do it is to parse all the day planner pages. I’d need to
extract the timestamp, but that shouldn’t be too hard because I’ve
already been keeping track of that. I can call this after
emacs-wiki-publish, or make it part of a wikipage without header or
footer. Hmmm. I’ll probably want to force absolute links, then. How
do I do that? And I’ll want to find out how RSS feeds deal with edits.

Another way to do it is to modify remember.el so that it remembers to
an RSS file as well. This seems to make a lot of sense, too, and has
the benefit of being able to publish in chronological order. However,
if you edit the planner page, your changes won’t show up in the RSS
feed – which may or may not be a bad thing, after all.

I think hooking into remember.el might be fun.