Monthly Archive for November, 2008

The Achocolypse

This is the cake to end all cakes.

This is the most ridiculous cake ever.

It has a Malteaser cake as the base (!!), three chocolate sponges flavoured with vanilla and honey, and filled and iced with chocolate fudge icing.

Choctastic

Nano Tweaks

Right now, I’m writing a novel. Before I started this I wondered about how I was going to write all this down, and I decided to do so using LaTeX and nano.

My nano configuration

My nano configuration

A lot of people think that nano is an editor only for newbies. Not so! Whilst it is minimal, it has a good set of features that allow you to be productive without having to remember syntax for commands, worry about buffers or having to switch modes all the time. Not only that, it’s damn small:


fish@jackson:~$ ls /bin/nano
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 143K Apr 8 2008 /bin/nano

Compared to:

fish@jackson:~$ ls /usr/bin/vim.basic
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1.5M Jan 31 2008 /usr/bin/vim.basic

So now that I’ve tempted the non-believers, here we go!
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