If you’re not a Socialist, you’re antisocial!

My goodness maglev PRT is an astoundingly stupid idea.

javascript thing

I can’t find the bookmark to the original source for this on my home computer, and anyway the bookmark that I thought worked on my work computer seems to be out of date.  So, here is the shell of how I start javascript programs.  Your mileage may vary.

Salasaga frustration

Super frustrating day trying to build Salasaga, with the kicker coming at about 3:30 when ./configure finally complained that it needs libgnome.  I don’t run gnome.  Most of the time that isn’t a problem.  How annoying that they don’t list Gnome as one of their project prerequisites.  I guess that is one of the evils of having Ubuntu become so popular—perhaps developers don’t even realize that running Linux on a desktop doesn’t “require” a gnome environment.

I think I’ll wait for the ebuild to come out.

concrete 5 looks like a winner

I’ve been looking for something for Brooke to use for a while now to bang out websites. I tried rolling my own, tried a wiki, tried setting up a blog (not in that order) but nothing worked. Concrete5 looks like “the bomb” as my old friend Bob used to say.  I used their demo (until it reset) and it looked like it could do what I think Brooke wants to do with a site (format, arrange, write content, get automatic listings/directories, etc).  The FAQ says it has community tools too.  Finally, I did a control-u and saw jquery, etc etc, so I’m downloading it and going to fire it up.  I just emerged drupal yesterday, but I got all bogged down in plugins and add ons and so on. If I can’t set it up fast, it isn’t going to get done.

We’ll see how C5 works out.