A brief demonstration of how to run Clojure programs like scripts with leiningen.

Using drip to run Clojure code like a script.

It's Valentine's Day 2013 and since January 2013 I've read the following books.

Getting the following error on Mac OS X? Read on.

I am a user of irssi over GNU Screen + ssh as well as locally, and I tend to use Emacs style text movements in bash, so need my ctrl and alt/option keys to work more or less as they do in Linux.

You close connections, you end requests.

When I was getting the Jekyll version of my site rolling, I ran into some problems with how RedCloth, liquid, and pygments were interacting. What follows is the error that was caused.

You need to install xmonad-extras from Hackage as the volume control functions are not included by default in any standard XMonad install. Below is the script for getting it installed.

I encountered some issues getting Emacs 23 working on Ubuntu 11.10 and I wanted to chronicle my travails in case someone else bumped into this. I tripped into this error after installing w3m-el-snapshot.

Analysts and economists like to fixate on two metrics for personal finance, income and net worth. They are in some sense a measurement of slope, and of the volume under the curve minus spending and debt. I don't think either are a meaningful gauge for really understanding why the poor are frequently stuck being poor.