Sat, 31 Jan 2004

Simple html mode for .txt file in blosxom tree?

So I made a blunder omitting a closing " earlier, and the post got an foobar'ed. Working in the one and only editor, I am wondering if someone had some elisp magic to turn html mode on for a file ending in .txt provided it sits below a configurable top-level directory, i.e. my blosxom directory?

Right now, and for kicks, I manually turned html mode on and off again as we don't formal document header for a blosxom input file. Better than nothing, but far from ideal.

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About PolicitalCompass.org

Jordi's post on planet debian lead me to politicalcompass.org, which is good fun for a few minutes.

And silly at the same time -- as it is about quantifying the arguably rather multidimensional aspects of, gasp, several social sciences discplines onto a two-dimensional plane (spanned by the, as far as the site goes, outdated 'left / right' metric, applied to an Economics axis, as well as polital liberalism vs authoritarian axis). Given that I was nerdy enough to endure schooling all the way to a doctoral degree in quantitative methods in social sciences (Econometrics, if you cared to ask), I have quite some empathy for the undertaking (as I also care a lot about empirical work if and when it is done well), as well as countless objections. But then again, we just did that mostly for the fun of it, didn't we?

And no, I'm not going to say how I scored on these two dimensions of 'economic left/right' and 'authoritarian / libertarian'. But if I told you that I've read the Economist for close to two decades, you'd get an idea.

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