A Quiet Day...

...spent tinkering with my home machines in various ways (mostly upgrading and cleaning up stuff). I've been putting off a lot of coding

In the meantime:

  • There's an updated version of for the , including a tutorial.
  • I tried to get the XMLTV CVS HEAD to work, only to find that it still relies on the (ultimately utterly unreliable) method of parsing this page.
  • I've yet to use  Pro for anything serious (returning to work after vacation kind of took the shine off things), but I find it as good as this review puts it (via Gruber), and more. In the meantime, I've been going through all my Visio stuff and saving it in XML format - for the future.
  • Simon writes about the new Yahoo Maps APIs.
  • Stumbled across Jaws and spent quite a while hunting and pecking through the screenshots - it looks pretty good, but no idea if it's coded right.
  • Tim lists the ways to run emacs on (no, I'm not switching from vim, but I've been known to use emacs on occasion, and the quote from In The Beginning... is exquisite).
  • I've been poring over the Kinkless  movies and scripts, trying to figure out a way to do the same either in Windows (it's painful to think I could be using this to curb my amazing workload if I had a at the office) or in JavaScript. So far, reformatting the heck out of my  task view (using category grouping) looks doable, but it is a long way from being this neat...
  • If you still had any doubts that the appearance of TiddlyWiki was a watershed event in JavaScript development, check out this version that integrates jsMath. Fear.