Before I used an Apple machine with OSX, XEmacs was my editor of choice. Recently I saw Emacs 23 being released with native OSX support in the main repository (well, NextStep support formally, but with Cocoa bindings, which makes it OSX native I guess). That alone was enough to revisit the old friend. With caution, …

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As a side-effect of Migrating to Claws I lost my OSX addressbook usage, at least for mail. In my company we use OpenERP for CRM, invoicing and other business needs. This means that the majority, if not all the email-addresses I need are in our OpenERP database. So, it made sense to finish an effort I started earlier, …

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After installing Snow Leopard I was left with a page of programs and plugins that needed attention because of the upgrade. Most of these were little nuisances and just needed a little reconfiguration. There were a couple of things where Apple decided to rename an app or hide it otherwise from view (Kerberos Ticket …

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The number of accounts I have on useful networks, social or otherwise, has been on an increasing trend-line for a while. In the beginning, things were simple, but it gets messy pretty quick. One feature which these networks share in some form or another are status notices Starting with the 'chat status' in the Instant …

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Last Monday was my 40th birthday. I'm kind of used to having a quiet birthday; most of the people are always on holidays during this time of year. My girlfriend had organised a two day trip, she usually does something like that for my birthday, to an unknown destination to do something unknown. We were leaving on …

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