chris's random thoughts

There’s many annoyances with WinXP.

For instance, a couple of years ago, I plugged in a wireless network card on my laptop, and my task bar just disappeared never to return.

I used to use GeoShell, mainly due to its ability to map hotkeys. As that functionality has been relegated to AutoHotKey for portability reasons, I decided to look into other shells.

Enter sharpe. Similar functionality to GeoShell, but much more ascetically pleasing. Coupled with adding stuff to the desktop (something you couldn’t really do with GeoShell), one word sums it up: Wow.

Check it out.

Patterns of Software by Richard P. Gabriel is available at his site.

As an aside, this is the second book I’ve seen from New Riders that is “open sourced” with the first being The VIM Book by Steve Oualline. Self: Look up links to this.

If I ever get around to writing a book, I’ll have New Riders publish it.

This is another decent VIM quick reference cheat-sheet.

Cryptarithms (a.k.a. Alphametics) are a geeky way to pass the time.

Google used at least one of ‘em on their employment examination.

You’ll need a jeweler’s loupe to read the PDF version, but this is a decent vi reference.

Includes HTML, plaintext, and PDF versions.

I’m about to show off the “post to blog” feature of WordPress to my
spousal unit. She probably won’t appreciate just how cool this is.