Catching Up On Blogging

By Gaz under Announcements, Writing

I am still alive! Thanks for sticking around through the quiet period.

Even though my posts here have been, ahem a little thin on the ground since our Tennessee road trips a few months ago, I’ve been active on twitter and I’m now blogging professionally for the Haxor Network since the beginning of this month. Please, do have a [...]

Texinfo Bundle

By Gaz under Programming, Technology, Writing

Over the last few days I’ve been reading the wonderful TextMate documentation in parallel with James Edward Gray II’s excellent TextMate: Power Editing for the Mac. One of the (very few) shortcomings of TextMate is a distinct lack of many of the Emacs modes I’ve grown to rely on when working on GNU Software.

Unquestionably, [...]

Phomnemonal: Abbreviating Common Words to One Letter

By Gaz under Technology, Writing

This is the third part of a short series of articles about implementing Phomnemonal, my experimental typing shorthand. The other parts are listed at the end of the article. If you’re not interested in the theory, please jump right to the abbreviations.

An English Spelling Reform Called What?

Last time I wrote an article in this [...]

Industrial Strength Linux Lockdown 2

By Gaz under Technology, Writing

The second part of my Linux security article is the top featured artice at IBM developerWorks Linux Zone today. If you’re at all interested on how to push machine lockdown to its absolute limits, then please do check the article out (registration required, sorry).

Where the first part laid the ground work by explaining physical [...]

Phomnemonal: Analysis of Sounds in English Speech

By Gaz under Technology, Writing

This is the second part of a short series of articles about implementing Phomnemonal, my experimental typing shorthand. The other parts are listed at the end of the article.

What’s in a Name?

Already, I’m tired of calling this thing my experimental typing shorthand, but luckily I had a flash of inspiration yesterday and decided to [...]

Typing at the Speed of Thought

By Gaz under Technology, Writing

This is the first part of a short series of articles about implementing Phomnemonal, my experimental typing shorthand. The other parts are listed at the end of the article.

Over the last few weeks, a number of seemingly disparate events have lead me towards the idea of creating my own short hand system:

My latest [...]