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Since I'm at work tonight to shutdown and startup servers (but not much else), I thought I'd work on blogger.el. The next thing I want to do is make it possible to edit previously posted items and scroll through a list of posts.

Now, for a elisp pro, this might be simple. But I don't know elisp. I struggled with this the other night and didn't get very far using arrays or lists. What I really wanted was a ring like emacs has for buffers. But I didn't know how that was implemented. I thought I might have to go poke around and do quite a bit of reading. Not good for hobby hacking.

But, my first step, M-x locate RET ring.el RET, produced ring.el. Awesome!

Before I go home, some quick links:

• Powers of Ten — from outside our galaxy, to inside an atom.
• How to tell if your Ass is too small — not what you think.

Today, I saw A Terrible Thunder at a friend's house and he is letting me borrow it. It is about the New Orleans Sniper from January 1973. How one midwesterner became bitter during his Naval service and decided to kill cops. Or something like that.