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Blogger strips out the newlines in a message posting by email. This makes trying to mark things up with a <pre> tag pretty useless. Observe:

 There should be a newline right here: <- The "<" character should be the first character in this line. This should be a new line as well. 

See? I've reported this twice, and nothing has changed.

# posted by Jason Creighton @ 12/13/2005 01:13:00 PM 0 comments

While debugging a version of Conway's game of life that I was writing, my program became unresponsive, so I opened another terminal and typed:

 ~$ killall life 

# posted by Jason Creighton @ 12/12/2005 11:09:00 AM 0 comments

I've recently begun using rss2email to read RSS feeds in mutt. Of course, to do this, having mutt set up to read HTML emails in a must. In my .mailcap:

 text/html; lynx -assume-charset=%{charset} -dump -stdin; copiousoutput 

My my .muttrc:

alternative_order text/plain text/enriched
auto_view text/html

The "alternative_order" is to ensure that in a message that has both text/plain and text/html as alternatives, mutt will select the text/plain. (see the section 5.5 of the mutt manual for more on this.)

Also, I've hacked my local copy of RedCloth to not produce "smart" quotes or other tricky HTML entities, so the produced HTML should be more friendly now.

# posted by Jason Creighton @ 12/02/2005 10:21:00 AM 0 comments

Scott Adams has an interesting take on cloning.

# posted by Jason Creighton @ 12/02/2005 09:44:00 AM 0 comments