Tuesday, September 19, 2000
Yesterday I met with John for lunch at Balducci’s (near Westport, very nice place) and we discussed finances in great detail. Very informative lunch. Afterwords I stopped by Software Plus to try and find a Lisp reference manual. I still haven’t figured out my Sawfish themes and thought a book might help. Well, there wasn’t a Lisp book to be had. However, on the bargain table was a copy of Sams “Teach Yourself EMACS” (If you don’t know about emacs, go here) Emacs is a lisp driven editor for unix. It is also almost everything else you need for unix. Or Windows. Or MacOS. Amazing. Really. So I re-installed emacs on my UltraSparc at work and lo and behold it all starts making sense! I could really get addicted to this Lisp stuff. Now my environment under X (Sawfish) and almost any tool I need (web-browser, telnet client, extremely powerful editor) are all controlled via Lisp. I will be updating my Sunfish page to reflect all these changes as well as post copies of my dotfiles.
It appears that this journalling thing is taking off! We now number six people! WooHoo! That makes an even dozen!!! In addition to Mark’s page, Charlie’s brother Aaron has joined the fray!
September 19, 2000 7:16 pm 
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