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ShifD - Emacs (and vi) Key Commands

I was able to distract the guys working on shifd long enough to slide a couple of commits past them.

So for today, I'll just talk about one of the features I added when the rest of the staff wasn't looking. You can now edit and save shifd content using familiar key commands. ¹

First, because it was easy, I added vi shortcuts. So i will put you in insert mode. It opens up the text box, focuses it and waits patiently. When you've added your text, you can hit [escape] :wq and it'll save and close it.

Adding vi shortcuts made me feel dirty, so I quickly added emacs commands too. The emacs version is pretty much only useful on a Mac, because control-s means something very different on windows/linux. To start a new shifd note, you can press [control]-x [control]-f². To save the note, press [control]-x [control]-s. Not bad, eh?

There are a couple other shortcuts as well. For example, t will show/hide the input box, but those aren't quite on the same level of nerdiness, so I won't mention them all here. Go try it out for yourself.

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1. This stuff, like most of the internet, is disabled in Internet Explorer.

2. I know that this would generally prompt you in emacs, but you get the gist of it.

I've got something to say

Let it be known. I will no longer purchase DRMed music. I haven’t been buying it for some time, but I wanted to make it official.

Also, regarding the DRM secured music files that I have already purchased, I will be illegally downloading copies of those. Whatever the legality of that, that seems like a reasonable action.

As always, in the future, I will continue to try to buy music instead of downloading it illegally. This assumes that the responsible parties don’t make it too difficult for me to do this. I’ll happily buy music from the website of a band or record label, but I don’t want to have to register, confirm my email address before purchasing or use Paypal. I am happy to buy a compact disc or other physical format, but I’d appreciate a copy in mp3 form while I wait for it to arrive.

Thank you for your time.

Necking

McCain vs. Dungeons & Dragons II

jeffrubinjeffrubin:

John McCain spokesman Michael Goldfarb seems to have a weird problem with Dungeons & Dragons.

Regular JeffRubinJeffRubin readers already know that Goldfarb compared the New York Times editors to a blogger, “sitting at home in his mother’s basement and ranting into the ether between games of Dungeons & Dragons.” It was an unusual quote for sure, but if you want to paint bloggers as antisocial it at least sorta makes sense to invoke one of the nerdiest things of all-time.

Actually, it’s true, there is a lot of D&D played here. But they’re totally out of touch and still playing with the v.3.5 ruleset.

Child Pornography

Remember when Pete Townshend was briefly arrested because he had been looking at all kinds of child porn and get was released after saying he was researching a book? Whatever happened to that book?

I looked it up… it’s been abandoned, but it’s good to know the “I’m writing a book” excuse is a valid defense.

If you’ll excuse me, I have some things to do, I’m writing a book on downloading movies.

At the Times Center