Wed 3rd Aug 2005
Posted late afternoon, filed under
Blogging.
I’m thinking about leaving Blogsome: I’ve been pretty happy with their hosting solution, and bugs tend to eventually get fixed, but there are two issues I can’t continue to live without:
- Posts posted via XMLRPC don’t have categories set.
- Posts posted via XMLRPC have quotes and double quotes escaped, breaking stuff.
I’ve got an account set up on http://schinckel.globbo.org. I’ll probably continue to post here until I get the template/theme set up how I want, and then move everything over.
Wed 3rd Aug 2005
Posted late afternoon, filed under
Humour.
Boing Boing: Bottled water is evil
You clearly haven’t tasted Adelaide water if you think you can’t tell the difference between bottled and tap water…
Wed 3rd Aug 2005
Posted early afternoon, filed under
Languages.
I have no burning desire to learn Java. I’m proficient in python, did a fair bit of Pascal about 12 years ago, followed by some C, a touch of C++, and recently a whole chunk of AppleScript. Daily, I possibly spend more time coding for bash than anything else, except hand-coding HTML. I’ve recently started playing around with PHP and MySQL, and ages ago did a bucn of JavaScript. I’m not saying learning another language is not a good idea. I just wouldn’t mind if the three tertiary institutions in my city didn’t only offer the same language as part of their Computer Science degrees.
Not that I’m seriously considering going back to University. It just might be nice to find a course that taught python, Obj-C, or C++, rather than Java.
Still, it might be fun to learn it…
Wed 3rd Aug 2005
Posted in the wee hours, filed under
iTunes.
In iTunes 4.9, the library file is no longer called iTunes 4 Music Library, but just plain old iTunes Library.
Broke my cron entry for backing it up…