sacha chua living an awesome life

When I was on Lotus Notes, I used an internal script that someone else in IBM put together in order to convert appointments into iCal. That made it easier. I also sometimes created manual entries for important dates. Never quite got it fully integrated, though.

The Starter Kit automatically loads (username).org, so I have it saved as Sacha.org in my ~/.emacs.d. =)

(setq org-agenda-files ‘(“~/personal/organizer.org” “~/personal/business.org”))

You keep everything in two files? (Or at least only include TODOs in two .org files.) How big and how deeply nested are these? How do you archive?

(BTW, the yellow font in http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3968124/sacha-emacs.html is unreadable. I looked at this a couple of days ago and it was fine.)

Great post. It finally gave me the inspiration to publish my literate config instance also based on Eric Schulte’s literate starter kit at:

https://github.com/dhaley/ewax.

I’ve already taken some items from your recently published config. As you’ll see there are quite a few sacha prefixed functions in mine.

My literate config needs lots more annotation (as I get time) to actually explain the stuff I find most useful.

I also need to document how I’m using Howard’s Rheingold’s PLN idea of filtering RSS feeds inside Yahoo Pipes (from his book Net Smart) with Gnus virtual groups and Gwene.org. Combined with w3m using a tor privoxy proxy, I like the http://www.freedomboxfoundation.org/ idea of not being tracked by Facebook and other marketing companies while pulling the useful parts of the web into emacs.

I’m also fully incorporated Bernt Hansen’s GTD config, which is one of the most masterful I’ve seen.

It would eventually be nice to have a list of all the published starter kit instances, so we could borrow new Emacs 24 config items from each other.

Damon

Are you not using Gnus these days?

More interesting would be to have a virtual machine image or at least a self sustaining code package, without outside dependencies (like CDE [1]) so one can _practically_ reproduce the science.

[1] http://pgbovine.net/cde.html

Having a virtual machine image would be really cool, but impractical for me: We already struggle with disk-space for all the meteorological input data, so creating a virtual machine which needs another full copy of the input data would be a huge ordeal.

I try to keep close to published input data, though, and to document every step I do to process it for the models I use.

But CDE actually sounds pretty nice – though I prefer sharing sources. I want people to not just be able to redo what I did, but to be able to work on it. And for that they need the sources. But just being able to run the program is a nice first step. → went into my remember file.

Thanks!

The Emacs starter kit link in the post is broken; it seems to have moved here:

http://eschulte.github.io/emacs-starter-kit/