The Home of Michael Osburn

Sometimes I find my self liking Cheyenne a bit more. Recently the motor in my car decided it wanted to suffer from a cracked block and the need of major repair. Considering the work needed for it would cost more then I paid for the car and other issues it was having I decided to start looking for a new vehicle. This is when I discovered that sometimes living in out in the country has it’s advantage.

I found an old (1986) Chevy pickup on a horse ranch for $300. It’s big, ugly and rather obscene. Needless to say, I wanted it when I first saw it. Deciding to play it safe we decided I would not buy it until I heard it run and that I would not spend much time to make that happen. Yesterday, we went back over with a can of carb cleaner and some starting fluid. After less then 5 mins, the old beast sprang to life. It needs a bit of work, but since it is as old as it is, I can do almost all the work myself. I have some plans for this truck and pics will be coming soon.

So I recently found out that I am going to have to write a large amount of HTML for an upcoming project. As this project requires HTML only I cannot even “cheat” and use PHP’s import functions to generate the header and footers for each page, I was planing on resurrecting my old HTML template to reduce the repetitive typing (for no good reason). As this is rather boring, I turned to the web thinking there was a better way. After a very short search Google provided the answer, html-healper-mode.el, (http://www.nongnu.org/baol-hth/). This nifty mode generates a template for every new HTML page that you create. All that is required after the mode is installed and added into your .emacs file is to open a new HTML file. Below is the template that it creates and I am sure that it is configurable some where but I have yet to dig deeper into it.

Enjoy the Emacs goodness.