Test of org-googlecl

I heard about this great project called Org-GoogleCL, which allows for publishing of blog posts to Google's Blogger from within Emacs' Org-Mode. This is a test of that library.

Hmm, there seem to be some issues with it not posting the full thing. I'll have to dive into the code at some point…

Edit: Oh, looks like it is working now. Still are some problems with filling paragraphs, though.

On the value of knowing the lower levels

While digging around some of the Python documentation (read: procrastinating), I stumbled across this section comparing Python performance to C in some very simple and contrived "benchmarks." The point of the section was that Python is not C, and you should be careful when trying to apply knowledge of C to Python. On a simple test of adding i to itself 10 million times, Python was about 50 times slower than C (which isn't really surprising, given that the C code just executes a series of single assembly addl instructions).

On cluelessness and racial self-identification

This was a response to Eric Raymond's recent blog post about "the perils of ethnic identification" and why his racial identity isn't a big deal to him. It is an interesting article in its own right, but my response was prompted by a comment made by a "William O. B'Livion", in which he said:

FroYo on the Droid, a Browser Benchmark Update

Yesterday I rooted my Droid to install the "FRG01" leaked version of Android 2.2 (FroYo) for my Droid. I figured I'd run the SunSpider browser benchmark again to see what (if anything) had changed as far as the browser went. I knew that there were supposed to be speed improvements in FroYo, both to the underlying Android system and also with the browser specifically, so I figured I'd put the fancy new JIT to the test.

The great smartphone/pad shootout!

While waiting for my Droid to be serviced at the Verizon store, I went down to the Apple store in the mall to check out the much-ballyhooed iPad. I'll save my full reactions for later (though it's not anything you haven't heard before) to bring you a comparison of browser speed between the iPad and Droid.

A Response to "Victimology bites"

This started out as a comment on Eric Raymond's "Victimology bites" blog post, but got long enough that I figured I'd turn it into its own blog post.

yt-bulk-py: A good program with a bad name

So I just finished another exhausting Ballroom competition, and once again, there are a ton of videos to upload (133, to be exact). Since I found myself doing this more and more, I decided to make my life easier by some code to help the process out.

Comparing Emacs Version-parsing Libraries

Recently, I've become interested in advancing the (currently sad) state of Emacs package management. It is a well-documented problem (see here for more detail), so I won't discuss it generally.

Letter to the US Trade Representative

From this Ars Technica article, the US Trade Representative, the body in charge of negotiating the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), has a section open for comments about the treaty. Let them know that you favor an open Internet and balanced copyright laws. I've copied my comment to them (which was too long to fit in the form, blah) here.

Copyright: You know the drill

This is a reply to a reply to my earlier post about copyright. Here, for your viewing pleasure, is my full response.

Copyright in Context

This is my response to this Ars Technica article.

Just to make your lives difficult...

I finally bit the bullet and renamed my GitHubaccount from "dhax" to "haxney". I did
this to increase the consistency of my online names, so hopefully things will be less confusing overall.

News Flows

Just like old times, I'm turning an email reply into a full-fledged blog post.

This is in response to an email sent to me, which I have quoted inline.

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/01/25/100125fa_fact_auletta

Wearing SOCKS with Emacs

So apparently I have way too much time on my hands, so I went ahead and taught myself the amazingly cool bindat package of Emacs. It is basically a way of writing specifications for translating binary to alists (attribute lists) and back again. Once you have a specification written (and it is pretty easy once you get the hang of it), converting data back and forth is incredibly easy. I did run into a slight hitch with a couple things, though: