Big news: [Cadet] is switching to mutt! Well, he’s at least giving it the old college try, in an effort to dump all non-free software from his system. A laudable example for us all. Incidental to this momentous change I’ve learned a thing or two about my beloved MUA. So, you see, this kind of social responsibility helps us all. It turns out Nugget has a very nice .muttrc posted if you want to see how to use a lot of hooks.
Project for today (inspired by the aforementioned): Learn to use abook.
Mike got engaged today! Very nice. His lovely fiance and he are off for a couple days or I’d post his phone number so you could all give him a congratulatory call. Great guy, great girl. I expect a lifetime of happiness for these two.
I have a hero submission form almost ready for service, I know you’re all chomping at the proverbial bit to get your hero-worship on and post some really interesting people. Just a little vetting/tweaking and it’s all yours.
Happy St. Patrick’s Day. Got a little form on your right (It’s my left <g>)there so you can pick some number of micro-bios to see. That’s new for today. It’ll be cooler when I have hundreds of cool people there but hacking seemed like more fun than writing today. Heh, I did get a chance to look at this site with Internet Exploiter last night. Blech! I really think CSS is cool, but it turns out browsers suxx0r. Oh well, I guess my next project should be to clean up the appearance a bit; who knows, maybe someone will show up. Oh, I need to rip off a favicon somewhere. …Okay, it’s a penguin for now.
Also I think I have man2ztxt fixed up a bit. It formats perldoc pages a lot better now.
Okay, even I’m starting to get tired of the floating, transparent x-term window thingy. Maybe I’ll think of some way to salvage it. While I’m on the subject; It’s day three with the brobdignagian candy-logo, Things could get drastic.
Today I added the “J. Random Hero” feature. I only have two random heros so far, so if you get the hankering to repetitively reload this page you will be treated to one of either ESR or Larry Wall. I thought this would be an interesting way for me to learn a little bit about a bunch of people and provide a little psuedo-random shrine to people I think are cool. You wanna help? Send me some info on yourself or someone else interesting. The info needs to end up in a form like this, so if you want to use it as a template that’d be really (really) cool. A picture about 100pixels wide x 125pixels high to go with the info would help as well.
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Greetings. (Monumental first entry btw) I think I have this journaling, blogging feature mostly working so I’m going to start using it. Especially since I have names to drop! Hanging out (Okay, I was really “working” an overtime gig) at the SxSW Interactive party last night I bumped into my buddies Tex and doppler who introduced me to Larry Ewing; the artist responsible for Tux, and Don Marti; the new Editor in King of Embedded Linux Journal. How cool is that? Wait, don’t answer yet; there was free food and coffee too!
Okay, on to the apologies: I have this lovely floating xterm window thing that should apear to be hovering over the upper right hand corner of the page, of course it only works in very standards compliant browsers. In fact it has to be totally hidden from some browsers. Bah. Anyhow, it looks so cool in mozilla I’m keeping it no matter how it looks in your browser. Speaking of which the logo is a PNG, it probably looks like hell in your browser too. Sorry, but GIF’s are the tool of the devil. Also it’s too large, but that’s my fault. It’s like the old “kernel-jacker” scam wherein one submits a truly egregious and halfhearted patch to fix his pet bug, immediately drawing out a sleeping army of wizards that will fix the long ignored problem before they will eat or sleep again. Anyway, I’m hoping this candy-colored, too-big, alpha-rended logo will draw some of my more artistic friends out of the woodwork.
The only real “content” I have up today is the GutenPalm page, and it turns out they changed the name to “Weasel Reader” while I wasn’t looking. I don’t feel like breaking out sed right now, so if you check it out just ‘s/GutenPalm/Weasel Reader/g’ in your head for me, okay. Thanks.