Even though I’ve been posting to baty.net via Org2Blog I’m still interested in other blogging options available from within Org Mode. There’s a long list of options here. I started with Org-page for no particular reason other than it looked fairly simple. I’m new to the whole Emacs and Org Mode world so starting simple is better. Here are some quick notes on what I’ve learned so far. In my .

Today I discovered Org2Blog, which is “a tool to publish directly from Emacs’ org-mode to WordPress blogs”. I’ve been learning Org Mode for the past few weeks so this seemed useful. If all goes well, this will be my first post using Org2Blog. My plan is to use a single file and write each post as a subtree. It happens something like this… M-x org2blog/wp-login M-x org2blog/wp-post-subtree That’s it! I’ll eventually need to figure out how to put my password in .

Meet Apple Music + Subtraction.com: The playlists include a whole bunch of stuff I can’t stand, along with a smattering of albums from acts that I’m okay with but not particularly passionate about That’s odd, because I’ve found the “For You” section to be almost eerily accurate. I can pretty much close my eyes, click anywhere, and hear a song I like. I too am curious how much Apple Music uses my thousands of iTunes Match songs and purchase history to guide the recommendations.

Dave Pell Apple’s Beats 1 radio station will be the most popular part of its music service. And it will spawn additional stations. And we’ll realize that while it sometimes pays to follow the technology, it can be just as fulfilling to follow the beaten path. And along that path, if you happen to see a few other heads moving to the same beat, all the better. Rock on.

I mostly sit in front of a beautiful 27″ Retina monitor. I’d rather not do anything on my phone.

How many times have you heard someone say that they need a new phone or laptop because their current one was full? Source: I hate iTunes. And I think Apple does, too – Quartz Zero, is how many times. I’m not a fan of iTunes, but I tire of hearing that “planned obsolescence” is the primary factor driving every manufacturer.

Tried using Emacs/Gnus for email. Hooked up BBDB and everything. Not gonna happen. Mutt still wins by a mile for me.

Bet there’s a lot of really interesting stuff buried in podcasts I’m never going to listen to because I hate listening to podcasts.

I’m a little sad that I had to stop using the wonderful Extended Keyboard II due to my recent foray into Emacs and Org Mode. The Caps Lock key on Apple’s keyboard physically locks when pressed so it’s not possible to remap the Caps Lock to Control key. Well, it’s possible, but useless. S’okay, I pulled the Das Keyboard out of the closet and that’s a pretty great keyboard also.

I’ve had my Amazon Echo for a couple of months now and it’s pretty great. Alexa (her name, because the Echo responds to calling it (her?) “Alexa”) sits in my kitchen and waits for me to ask her things. I ask her things constantly. She tells me the weather, plays whatever music I want to hear, looks things up on Wikipedia, plays the news, reads me my Audible books, and sets cooking timers.

It’s been a wild week of significant Supreme Court rulings. As a heterosexual white male with company-provided healthcare I don’t have much skin in the game, as it were, but it feels like we’ve moved things in the right direction for the many who do. Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage.

Back in October, 2014 Paul Ford did something amazing and wrote about it: I had a couple drinks and woke up with 1,000 nerds It was the story of tilde.club. I love the idea of tilde.club-type sites everywhere. I even ran one for a spell. Mr. Ford was kind enough to provide me with an account on the original server. You can find it at tilde.club/~jbaty. I still update it occasionally.