September 30, 2003
Mary Kate and Ashley
The Observer has a nice editorial about Mary Kate and Ashley Olsen. It reminds me of Lauren’s entry (mentioned, below) about the increasing commercialization of our lives.
Clark may win
Clark wants to fund light speed research, and once he’s got that all bets are off.
But does it look pretty?
Rob mentions that MusicMatch has a comparable service to iTunes’ download service. I’d like to see Mac’s iTunes offering for Windows, which should come out by the end of the year.
(This entry also serves as an example of a trackback ping on Rob’s blog.)
Fedora and Red Hat to Merge
There will be no Red Hat 10. (I might need this article for work!)
September 29, 2003
Go get ‘em, Lauren!
Check out Lauren’s link to the possible future of advertising: people getting paid by the hour to advertise on their bodies, artists and writers being paid to incorporate products into sitcoms and movies.
More emacs cruft…
If you want antialiased fonts under emacs in linux, you have to compile the CVS tree with these patches from Chris Gray (thanks, Chris), which you will probably (definitely) have to do by hand, at least partially. If you want png support, too, then you will probably notice this patch breaks png support currently. The solution here is to edit your /etc/include/libpng/pngconf.h file, look for the lines:
__png.h__ already includes setjmp.h;
__dont__ include it again;
and comment those suckers out. Emacs seems to compile, then. It’s probably going to crash, but the fonts are pretty!
-edit- You have to uncomment a couple of lines in this patch, BTW — in xfaces.c, uncomment “// BLOCK_INPUT” and “// UNBLOCK_INPUT”. Otherwise X freaks out.
wikis
I would also like to mention that I’ve seen like 5 wikis in the past 24 hours, on all kinds of projects (like Parrot development and FOAF, below). I even saw twiki (the one I’ve set up at work) being used.
TWiki is particularly good because it’s backed by RCS, allows file attachments, has a lot of optional stuff, and uses flatfiles (so it would theoretically be easy to move the data elsewhere). The bad side is that it does use flatfiles, so stuff gets slow and it has to dynamically create every page, often via CGI (i.e. starting a program for every page hit.
update: just found another link, to the Wikipedia’s current events
FOAF
Check out Snowdeal’s FOAF icon, middle on the right. I’d like to get into FOAF (Friend Of A Friend, an XML schema) sometime.