Fedora Core 12 is good

I was late to post this, but I like Fedora Core. And not surprisingly, FC12 did not disappoint me. Again, well thought-through OS.

GIT

I am getting to love git.
I followed someone's post (using Subversion as a main repository in Dropbox). It was a wonderful idea. It was useful. But, svnroot on Dropbox makes nature a little awkward by svn design. And, peeking GIT rougly, it fits much better in Dropbox. So, I decided to learn, and it works out well.

The primary motivation is 'Lock vs. No Lock'. So, for VC using Dropbox, I recommend git.

People who likes Twitter down.

Obviously, if twitter is down, This website will be very hot. I did the same thing :)

Bash, [C-xC-e] command editor

I found this accidentally and luckily. With predefined EDITOR env variable, C-xC-e will bring current command line into EDITOR. Regular expression based change can be applied.

I set up my EDITOR variable to 'emacs -q'.

Emacs, - for navigating buffers

One of emacs pain is 'too many key-strokes for a certain thing'. This xkcd partly shows this problem. But, true. Laughing at 'C-x r j "register"' is legitimate, especially from vim users. Vim way of 'doing a certain thing' is wicked fast. The key stroke that I describe is Emacs way of switching to a buffer. (OMG, 4 key strokes for just switching buffer??). Vim way is ':e "filename"' or ":bp", simpler than emacs way.

So, borrowing CTRL-TAB idea from windows, I installed buffer-stack.el, and bound keys for CTRL-TAB and CTRL-SHIFT-TAB. Easier to navigate. Hurray~

Swim, not that bad

This week, I reduced my swim by 5 seconds. I was only training 50 meters, and I could do 60 seconds for 50 meters. If I swim at 65 seconds for 50 meters, my breath was much smoother and I could go further. But, today's train was focused just for 50 meters.

I realized that I need more muscle. I definitely felt the resistance of my forearm pushing, but couldn't push hard enough. I feel so good!

Improving my swim

My shoulder muscle needs to improve. These days, my swim speed got better and my endurance level got better. It takes 70 seconds for 50 meter swim, 155 seconds for 100 meter swim. Better but, way worse than excellent swimmers. Olympic swimmers are less than 50 seconds for 100 meter.

I saw one of master swim person making 45 seconds for 50 meters consistently forever. At this time, my goal is 120 seconds for 100 meter. Long way to go.