twitter and google wave

After I use twitter and google wave, I am getting lazier on my blog. I may not post often enough, but somehow I should prepare something worth to read on my blog. I feel guilty.

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!