Emacs for Dummies Mortals
Some people want to learn about every last capability of emacs. Others just want to edit and then save the damn file. This is for you ...

[Listening to: Karsten Koch - leaving all behind ]

Dashboard update
After much messing about with dependencies and paths, I managed to finally get Dashboard to compile and run. Now I need to figure out how to populate that nice blank little box I have on my screen :-)

[Listening to: Necton - My Mud is Bubbling]

You wouldn't want to break something now, would you?
Trying out a newer version of Evolution, in order to get something else working (CVS version of Nat Friedman's Dashboard) that has a whole bunch of dependencies on things that are so new, they're not even in the unstable branch of Gentoo's packages.
That's why I've bitten the bullet and got ebuilds from BreakMyGentoo, whose mascot, Barry the Cow, you can see as the icon for this blog entry.

[Listening to: the mad style - enough for everybody ]

Keeping cool
My laptop is a bit flaky these days. I think it has a loose connection on the graphics card somewhere, but its still stable enough to be usable, except when it gets hot. So after installing the toshiba_acpi kernel module, I knocked up the following little script (which needs running as root or at least under sudo

#!/bin/bash
echo "force_on:1" > /proc/acpi/toshiba/fan
cat /proc/acpi/toshiba/fan

and now I've forced the fan to be permanently on which means my machine runs a good 10 degrees centigrade cooler.

[Listening to: Astral Projection - Nilaya]

Mono Release Candidate 1
The first Release Candidate of Mono 1.0 is available

[Listening to: Chi A.D. - Black Light ]

iPod Linux
My iPod now dual boots between Linux and Apple's original firmware. Still very early stages, but its looking promising....

[Listening to: Astral Projection - Trance Dance ]

Princess Madeline of Sweden
We like Princess Madeline of Sweden. The King of Sweden, however, doesn't like us to like her quite so much, and so he's banned Swedish newspapers from showing this picture of her...

[Listening to: Space Buddha - Point Break]

Sports presenters
We get Gary Lineker. The Italians get more interesing sports presenters

Win a part in Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Movie
For all you sci-fi fans out there, the BBC is offering you a chance to win a part in the forthcoming Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy movie. Enter here, and remember.... DON'T PANIC!

Wot no geek?
This is a non-geeky blog posting, especially for the benefit of Dan, who compained.

MonoDevelop for VS.Net users
Nice little intro to MonoDevelop for VS.Net users. Also covers a little about using Glade

[Listening to: paniq - last night (wtf remix) ]

Infected Mushroom animation
Cool little flash movie with an Infected Mushroom soundtrack.

New kernel
Nothing too exciting - just upgraded my Linux laptop to kernel 2.6.7

[Listening to: Infected Mushroom - Live At Dinamo Dvash 05-09-03 ]

Invisible programming languages
There exists a programming language whose syntax consists solely of the whitespace characters (CR, LF, Tab, Space). It will run small applications written in code that, due to its whitespace nature, is to all and intents and purposes, invisible. Appropriately, the language is called Whitespace

[Listening to: Morlack - It's a Great Sound ]

Bookmarklets for Firefox
Was talking to my friend Joël on the train this morning about these handy bookmarklets for Firefox. You can just drag them to your bookmark toolbar to use them to zoom images in and out on a page.

>zoom images in

>zoom images out

Mono Beta 3 Released
Mono Beta 3 has been released. No fancy logo or Release Notes this time, but the download page has what you need.

[Listening to: Underfoot - Elemental : Earth]

That's me that is

Brickin' it
Cool looking game involving brick stacking - screenshots look nice, might investigate further

[Listening to: Astrix - Visions ]

Firefox 0.9 released
New release of the superior browser, Firefox is out - try and use the mirrors for downloading to spread the network load if you can! Remember to uninstall the old version first!

A giFT to myself
Finally figured out how to get giFT working on my machine. Now I can get sued by the record industry like everyone else :-P

[Listening to: Infected Mushroom - Over Mode ]

Pixel people
Make fun little portraits of yourself for MSN or email signatures or whatever here. Also good for avatars in online forums.

[Listening to: Goralation Corporation - You Are It ]

Linux CD Writing
Managed to get CD burning working under Linux on my laptop. That's one less thing to keep me on Windows. If only I can get that SmartMedia card reader to work.....

Malcolm the Penguin
Woohoo! I got the first photos of my Magellan Penguin. You can see his burrow, him taking care of some eggs, and a picture of him with the kids

[Listening to: Nookie - Blue aura ]

Behold the bananaphone!
Much banana related goodness here - just make sure you have your sound enabled!

Archery for dummies
Practise your archery skills here

[Listening to: Nomix - The birth ]

Cool XP Themes
There's some nice XP theme related stuff here, but be warned that it modifies some Windows system files - use at your own risk (although I've not seen any problems yet.

Mono Beta 2

Mono Beta 2 - go get it here

Nethack for Yopy
Having a few problems compiling NetHack for my Yopy. I did manage to find a precompiled binary, but they hadn't compiled it with the options I wanted, so I'm rebuilding it from source, and its proving problematic. The GNU make on the Yopy doesn't seem to default to using Makefile like on my main machines, so thats one of the reasons the build is failing. Once I get a working executable, I'll try and make an RPM of it for others to use, and post it somewhere.

[Listening to: Lagerfeldt - Robocop III (Progressive Uplift]