Friday, June 26, 2009

Get out of town

Sometimes I want a quick getaway, but don't have a particular destination in mind. Wouldn't it be great to say: "find all flights leaving SFO (or nearby) for under $400". Kayak now has this, but it is hidden away in "Buzz"--who picked that name?!!!

http://www.kayak.com/buzz

Sunday, June 7, 2009

Craigslist Scammer!

I'd always read about scammers on craigslist, but today was the first time I actually got hit up by one. Here it is, for your viewing pleasure:

From: peterchris002 chris (peterchris002@gmail.com)
Date: Sat, Jun 6, 2009 at 10:30 PM

Thank you very much for your swift response and for telling me the Item is still available.I want to let you know that i'm a deaf man and i am satisfied with the conditions has you have stated in the craigslist.

I have a schedule already,for i need to attend an important seminar in Hawai so i wont be able to come to check it at your place.Since i am ok with the condition,i will be sending you a certified check that will cover the amount of the Item and the moving funds.You are to take your money for the item from the check after cleared in your bank within 2-3 days and have the rest sent to the mover via western union money transfer or money gram.For your inconvenience,i will add $50 with the payment to be your running around fee.I'm always a busy person and i will not like to miss this item.The information of the mover will be sent to you after the check is received and he will be at your location for the pick up with a signed note explaining that he will be assuming responsibility for the item on my behalf.

Kindly get back to me with the following information for issuing of
the payment........

NAME:
ADDRESS :
CITY:
ZIP CODE:
STATE:
PHONE NUMBER:

Thank you

Thursday, June 4, 2009

Fixing broken space completion on Emacs 22.x

Solution thanks to Karsten Lang:

Joseph Brenner writes:
> I see that space-bar completion on filename entry is essentially
> broken in gnu emacs 22, because they wanted to give you the
> capability to type spaces into a file name. I don't want that
> capability -- I'm glad that emacs can understand filenames with
> spaces, and sometimes I need to select them via dired, but I
> personally never create files named like this.

> So: what do I need to munge in order to get the old space-bar
> completion functionality back?

klang was good enough to email me his solution (which I'm passing on with his permission):
(if (boundp 'minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map)
(progn
(define-key minibuffer-local-filename-completion-map " "
'minibuffer-complete-word)
(define-key minibuffer-local-must-match-filename-map " "
'minibuffer-complete-word)
)
)