Day: June 6, 2004

Special thanks to the mobitopians who sent along a bottle of chapagne.  You guys rock!  Yes, Erik, my parents are ecstatic.

All the little details have been filled in and everything is set for tomorrow.  Until then, here are some links for you.  Hopefully I’ll have a chance to read them in depth during the week.

• Today is Python Bug Day.
• It’s good to have Russ back online again.  Go read now.
• Chris Sells is gearing up for another DevCon.  I know that it’s going to rock.
• I’ve been catching up Lessig, and it’s all worth reading.
• I’ve lost the via, but this Whidbey VB pseudoscreenshot makes me chuckle.
• Apache Practico is the Apache Cookbook en espanol.  I really need to learn how to type the proper letters in Spanish on a US keyboard.  Maybe then I’d look like less of a gringo.  Doubtful.
• OSNews: IRIX 6.5.24 Released
• Danny Ayers points to a free Python book.
• Appropriately found on the Duke Speaks! weblog, you can make Ant talk to you.
• Libopendaap is an open source C library for accessing iTunes shares.
• Phil Wainewright covers the three Ps of SOA.  SOA is the new black.
• Brood X (the current crop of Cicadas in the Eastern US) has been quiet for the past few days.  It’s been cooler and wet.  Hopefully they’ll shush tomorrow afternoon too.
• Joi Ito on NoteTaker, Ecto and TypePad
• BBC News: Former US President Ronald Reagan has died, aged 93, after reports in recent days that his health had taken a turn for the worse.
• Distrowatch covers a new Lycoris release, Feather Linux, LAMPPIX, and an intriguing debian-based firewall distro called Gibraltar.
• Via Lamda the Ultimate, Axiom is a computer Algebra system with its own programming language and other fun stuff.
• If Netcraft is right, we’re going to need spam filtering for our wikis.  Ugh.
• Hey, Knoppix 64 (for AMD), baby!
• Happy birthday, BeOS.
• RootPrompt: Sun confirms decision to open source Solaris
• RootPrompt: Behind four Linux community sites
• K5 on social engineering
• OSDir points to an Internet News article about Source Forge Enterprise Edition.  It’s a complete break from previous versions, and it runs atop a J2EE stack.
• Scott Hanselman notes that you can get XML Spy Home Edition for free.
• Newsforge carries the announcement of PHP 4.3.7.
• Alan Coopersmith talks about the XOrg release plans, seeing how the whole world is watching and all…
• Freshmeat has the announcement of Webmin 1.150.
• PyPI has the news of Mysql for Python 1.0.0.  Cool!
• Gizmodo has an interesting article on the the technical side of playing Ogg files on an iPod.