Reality Distortion

From the WSJ (1/17/2011):

Helped by the fact it only faced competition from the iPhone on the AT&T network, Android accounted for 34% of North American smartphone sales last year, compared with Apple's 23%, Strategy Analytics estimates.

In the rest of the world, where Nokia is dominant and Apple is available more widely, Android's 16% market share was only slightly bigger than Apple's 14%.

Fruitcake

Fruitcake, originally uploaded by nikconwell.

Being apparently the only person who actually likes fruitcake, and being in posession of a bunch of near expired bananas and some chopped up fruit bits, I decided to make some banana bread fruitcake.

Turned out quite well. Was of about the same consistency of regular fruitcake. The only issue (minor) was that the bits of fruit got a little dried out and hard. I'd made some banana bread with some Maraschino cherries and they had stayed soft. (There were cherries in the fruit bit mix.)

All in all, not bad. I think I liked the Maraschino cherry version a bit better.

set-buffer-file-coding-system

Thanks very much to this guy: http://mike.kruckenberg.com/archives/2004/08/replace_m_in_em.html for how to get rid of the pesky ^M and put unix newlines at the end of MS-DOS and MAC encoded files, while in emacs.

ESC-X set-buffer-file-coding-system RET unix

Works like a charm. Thanks very much indeed.