ongoingongoing fragmented essay by Tim BrayWhat You Like- June 23, 2008 The benchmark were grinding away at over in Wide Finder land is computing popularity stats using this weblogs server logs from its birth through April 2008. The benchmark is more interesting than the results, but since I write this stuff, I find the results interesting too.http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/23/What-You-Like CL II: Water-Displacement Forty- June 23, 2008 Cottage Life, unless yours is a mansion with full-time staff, is mostly maintenance, with a few intervening breaks for nature or beer. Im neither deft nor mechanically gifted, but the right industrial chemicals can make up for that.http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/23/CL-Triumphs WF2: Midsummer Update- June 23, 2008 This is part of the Wide Finder 2 series. Were a few weeks in now, so I should provide an update. Those who are really interested might want to join the Wide Finder group.http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/23/WF2-Progress All Free Now- June 20, 2008 On November 12, 2006, I wrote Java Is Free, about the GPLing of the Sun Java source code. It was a good day. The job wasnt 100% finished then, because there was encumbered code we couldnt GPL. As of today, its pretty well done. With contributions from a bunch of people and organizations, especially Red Hats Fedora community and the Iced Tea project, the missing pieces are filled in and the TCK has been passed. Most people dont realize what a huge hurdle the TCK is; we are talking about a..http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/20/Free-Java Colonoscopy- June 19, 2008 I had one at 11:20 this morning, and Im sitting here typing this, and thinking about Wide Finder 2 and the data thats coming in, and that Id better donate to Aquamacs because release 1.4 is looking seriously cool, and I just went out and photographed a couple of flowers. If youre over fifty, you should get in line for one, because its just not that bad and it can save your life.http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/19/Colonoscopy In C- June 18, 2008 Im back to working on mod_atom and kind of gloomy because its C programming; so much more effort to do a unit of work compared, for example, to Ruby. In this context, Terry Jones Embracing Encapsulation got my attention and made me feel vaguely dinosaurian. While he may be on to something important, there are some consolations for us grizzled pointer-wranglers. For example, the list of things implemented in largely or wholly in C: Unix, Linux, Solaris, Windows, Java, .NET, Flash, Mozilla,...http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/18/In-C Car-Free- June 17, 2008 Its full name is Car-Free Vancouver Day and it happened last Sunday. We hadnt been planning to go but stumbled in more or less accidentally and it was good fun. It gave me an excuse to take pictures of people; something Im too shy to do except in a crowd.http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/17/Car-Free-Vancouver GNU Tool Moan- June 17, 2008 I mean autoconf, libtool, and friends, collectively the GNU build system. Man, theyre hard to understand.http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/17/GNU-Tool-Hate Deletionist Morons- June 15, 2008 For a nice safe NPOV (Neutral Point of View) discussion of the issues, see Deletionism and inclusionism in Wikipedia. My experience, which isnt NPOV at all, is that Deletionists are knuckle-dragging droolers, walking vacant spaces, and as a side-effect generally, well, whats the word Im looking for Wrong.http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/15/Deletionist-Morons Cottage Life I: Logs- June 15, 2008 I think that life in general and this space in particular would benefit from more of an outdoor flavor; words and pictures rooted in Nature. Our recent acquisition of a piece of Keats Island, should make this easier. Welcome to Cottage Life. Any piece of Pacific Northwest waterfront is going to include a lot of logs.http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2008/06/15/CL-Logs |