My generation’s “Great Depression?”

Nicest of the Damned

Frank noted this story: it’s about the last thing I wanted to read today. After almost two years feeling much the same as the folks interviewed for this article, I’m trying to figure out what my next career will be. Or will it just be a job with no measurable trajectory? Not that it makes much difference to me. Career-type opportunities might pay more, but the uncertainty, especially as the whole economic infrastructure seems to be re-inventing itself, isn’t worth it.

The most promising leads I have now are far removed from my days of bit-wrangling and cat-herding: on the upside, a Commercial Drivers License can be useful.

if you’re buying, I’m selling

Amazon.com:

In the general belt-tightening around here, I am selling some well cared for technical books. I have this title, plus a second edition, a Perl Cookbook, Mastering Algorithms with perl, and a couple of others.

I may even turn my bike into cash: I’m not riding it now and I’m not sure if I’ll do much before springtime. $100 or so (what I would hope to get for it) would help more than having it hanging in my garage.

when hackers have a sense of humor

libpr0n FAQ


Why the name “libpr0n”?
The main goal of the library is to render pornographic images in an efficient way. Plus, the name “imglib2” is boring.

Saw the libprOn tree go by as I was wrestling with Mozilla . . . . what the . . . ? A quick Google search later, I found this site. Evidently, these guys know what most browsers are used for.

mozilla -calendar bug

Bug 183667 – iCal and mozilla -calendar disagree on how to display the same calendar file.

iCal and mozilla -calendar disagree on how to display the same calendar file.

I found another bug in mozilla’s calendar module and it seems like a showstopper to me. Given the same .ics file (the source data used in iCal, calendar, et al) mozilla displays it completely differently than iCal or phpiCalendar (the two of them agree).

So another visit to bugzilla . . . .

searchling

Searchling v1.0

Searchling is a free, quick and unobtrusive way to access your favorite search sites in MacOS X. Once running, Searchling appears as a small icon (the ‘G’, for Google) in your menu bar alongside your other menulings. Click the icon and a small text field and two pop-up buttons will appear. Enter your search and hit return…poof, you’ve got results in your favorite web browser.

Thanks, Wade.

request for calendar

rfc2445 – Internet Calendaring and Scheduling Core Object Speci

There is a clear need to provide and deploy interoperable calendaring and scheduling services for the Internet. Current group scheduling and Personal Information Management (PIM) products are being extended for use across the Internet, today, in proprietary ways. This memo has been defined to provide the definition of a common format for openly exchanging calendaring and scheduling information across the Internet.

This RFC is 4 years old now, and as far as I know, only Apple’s iCal and the Mozilla calendar module support it. Ironically, the two authors are from Lotus and Microsoft, neither of which produces an RFC2445-compliant calendar application.

Interesting reading: it will be good when more of this is included in other applications.

munged design

well, for some reason, the bottom of the right column (below the “powered by” tag) wants to shift to the left. That looks awful, and I don’t know why it’s doing it. So I have commented it out.