Yak Shaving.
August 6th, 2004
Yak Shaving: “Unfortunately, the new version of gnus didn’t work with emacs 18, so
I downloaded and built emacs 20. Of course, then I had to install
updated versions of a half-dozen other packages to keep other users
from hurting me. When I finally tried to use the new gnus, it kept
crapping out on my old configuration. And that’s why I’m deep in the
gnus info pages and my .emacs file – and yet it’s all part of working
on my thesis.”