New Look. and Bloggin with Emacs

Right then. Got some time off and i have decided to put my affairs in
order. One of the first things on the list was to sort the blog out,
From now in i plan on putting real (ish) and useful posts here, as
well as update a little more often. Its all a bit like new years
resolution's really and time will tell if I get past the mid January
phase.

So here comes informative post No 1:. Bloggin with Emacs (or any
other text editor of choice even Vi).

I now use Emacs to write my Blog, Email and Wiki entry's, This means i
can spell cheque what i white, a major advantage for those of us who
are dyslexic. (see Harry's blog).

Those of you who use win Doh's probably wont be familiar with Emacs
and those into 'Nix have almost certainly experienced the Emacs / Vi
argument. But i digress and its not the editor but the web browser that's
important here.

Its really quite simple. Use the Excellent It's All Text plug-in for Firefox.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/4125 this allows any
text box on a web page to be opened in a external
editor. (Again Windows users may have to download this excellent
browser) Once installed and configured your off and wont look back.

For those of you who work with Wiki's the same plugin can be used to
edit Wiki text from within Emacs. I would also recommend getting a
wiki mode, then you can take advantage of font-lock highlighting.