Wiki-like version history
Documents stored in a subversion repository
Integrated GUI subversion browser
Subversion can be pointed to a local drive, a remote server, or a host offered by the manufacturer
GUI history browser with diff highlighting and history search
Documents are saved in markdown.
Documents editing in both markdown and a rich text environment
Typing a markdown syntax (e.g. ###) in [...]
Category Archives: Miscellaneous
My dream word processor
October 17, 2007 – 10:09 pm
Uninhibited conversation
October 15, 2007 – 5:13 pm
People say that our behavior on the Web is reflective of our true selves, with anonymity removing the constraints of social norms and sensitivity to the demands of sustainable relationships.
After playing Half Life this weekend, I’ve come to believe that this is how people would converse if they could be themselves.
It has become clear that I will never get around to writing the following blog post
September 16, 2007 – 11:40 pm
For every post on this blog, there are eight unpublished posts that I hastily scribbled, with the idea that I would later polish them to the blinding sheen for which my regular readers have purchased special glasses. Predictably, those posts never end up seeing the light of day. I will release [...]
An amazing story about my most recent music purchase
September 5, 2007 – 6:59 pm
This weekend I bought the Kronos Quartet’s celebrity playlist from the iTunes Store. I’m not especially familiar with the work or tastes of the Kronos Quartet, so why did I buy their celebrity playlist? After engaging in a session of retrospective introspection, I realized that I must have been impressed by the fact [...]
Gary Shandling Eats Bananas Weird
August 9, 2007 – 8:49 pm
Here are a few stills of Gary Shandling eating a banana from the Larry Sanders Show DVD Extras.
He puts his upper lip on the bitten-off part of the banana.
America’s Pretzel Bakery
August 8, 2007 – 11:25 pm
I spent the evening puttering around in my old photos, and I found this one of a Snyder’s pretzel bag from August 10, 2002:
“Why,” I asked myself (Andrew), “Andrew, did you take that picture?” Then I remembered: I thought the idea of America having a pretzel bakery was kind of dumb. I [...]
Link to a turtle fighting a cat
June 6, 2007 – 12:20 am
BREAKING:
For a brief moment in this video of a turtle fighting a cat, the cat knocks the turtle on its shell. Upsidedownedness seems like a freakishly unnatural state for a turtle — a sort of biological exploit — the putting in of which I always liked to think as a privilege reserved for mankind.
First Post
June 5, 2007 – 11:00 pm
Hello, I’m Andrew Mason, this is my blog. In December of 2006, I dropped out of the Masters in Public Policy program at the University of Chicago after receiving an funding offer for a website idea I had. This website idea has since been incorporated as The Point, LLC.
The question I most often [...]