Engineer’s Attempt at Writing

I have been brainwashed through my years at Berkeley and I believe emacs is the best editor for writing codes. When I started working, my co-worker tried to convert me to slickedit. However, I find slickedit to be slow and quite limited.

By no means am I a emacs expert. Recently, I find myself using the esc-p command quite a bit to get the previous commands I typed. But this repetitive motion of hitting esc-p is really starting to bother my fingers. I want to ask if anyone knows a way to create a separate window in emacs that contain all the last 40 unique commands I entered. Then this way, when I want to repeat a command, all I have to do is to click the command in the window.

Something along the line of this:

Since the inception of the IPhone, everyone has been talking about the exciting and cool applications that developers can create for it. There are talks of location based applications. For example, suppose you were searching for food, then Google can send ads from restaurants near where you are. At first I thought this is a great idea, but after some consideration, I realized that this will just mean more spam, and I hate spam. I already hate the occasional text messages I get from T-mobile about some random promotion they have.

Then there is also this social networking aspect using the mobile device. How lazy are we that we are not willing to just call our friends to find out what they are doing? I suppose that these types of applications will be similar to twitter, but I still don’t know what the heck twitter is all about.

Now this is an application I want. I want to be able to store receipts on my IPhone. I always keep my credit card receipts, but it has become a ritual that after 3 months, I just dump my receipts into a trash bin. It would be even nicer to be able to synchronize my IPhone with GNUCash or Quickens so that at the end of each month I know where my money went. Maybe I am drinking too much beer, and should cut down on beer consumption if I want to have enough money for my trip to Spain.

On a second thought that will be great. If I can put into Quicken that I need this much money by x time period, and then Quicken can analyze my spending history to tell me what I need to cut back on to have this much money. Come on all you super geniuses out there, make something like this. Hopefully, this will be open source and so I can use it for free .