Finance::Quote
A bit of hacking the last few days, mostly some well-needed
tweaks. Volkers and Keith have recently written new modules
to do lookups at Deutsche Bank and UK funds, and these
should make it into the next release. I'm very pleased.
The ASX seem to be doing some weird things with their
website. I thought maybe they were intentionally objecting
to robot-type things, so I checked their robots.txt
file. Nope, nothing parsable there, just a really
misleading error message. (Sorry guys, "Not Found" and
"High load, try again later" have different meanings in most
people's books.)
The Perl Journal
My draft almost has all the sections filled in, and the
example program is finished and working well. Hope to have
something reasonable to submit this weekend or early next
week. Still needs polish, of course.
Work
Friday already? The week seems to have started just the
other day.
Dan and Tiff seem to be sick. :( I hope they're feeling
better soon.
Games
X-COM III is great. Loving it still.
House
Been drooling over some of the land available in Earth
Garden magazine. 49 acres in the middle of Queensland
for less than $AU 10K.... Mmmm, very tempting. May have to
use a couple of tin-cans on a string for a network
connection, though. Satellite downlink is also an idea.
Advogato
Good to see that Gossamer has
started a diary. Hi Bek! Long time no see.
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Work
My opinion of Dan has increased muchly. He's helped me keep
my sanity during a time when I would otherwise be losing
chunks of it. I'm very glad he's around.
Finance::Quote
ASX have indeed rejiggered their website, some things for
better and some for worse. Writing a patch that should fix
things and also provide a good speed boost.
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TPJ
Jon seems quite happy with my draft, and has given me a
green-light to go ahead with a second article. I'm most
pleased.
In true perl hacker's fashion, my journal article is also
its own formatting program. Running perl over it turns it
into editor-in-chief friendly format, whereas leaving it
as-is turns it into author-preferred format. :)
Advogato
Alan Cox on a chip? Alumni of some weird organisation? Are
we being hijacked here?
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Dogs and Sleep
Our neighbour has just got himself a dog, and its favourite
hobby seems to be barking from 4am to 7am outside Gwen's
window. Gwen's been in Ballarat the last few days, but
she's going to get a bit of a surprise when she comes back.
The dog itself seems to be quite friendly and nice, albeit
probably quite bored. Normally I don't mind barking dogs
too much, as I assume they give their owners more grief than
they give me. However, when it's my immediate neighbour, I
do take exception. I may have to invest in either a
chew-toy for the dog, some sound-killing earmuffs for me, or
some chocolates for Ian (so he won't mind when I ask to
sleep at his house where it's quiet).
Of course, my first line of attack is to have some quiet
words with our neighbour -- if I can stay awake that long.
The Perl Journal
Wrote much of my draft last night, in preparation for first
submission this weekend. Quite pleased. It won't contain
how to roll your own F::Q module, as that looks like it will
be well beyond the scope of the article.
Work
The restructuring looks like it may be a good thing.
Shirley, who's helping to organise things, certainly seems
to be more than willing to listen to people. This is a good
thing.
I'm going to have to call a bunch of places looking into
having the Schoolsnet Xmas party on a boat, train, or other
vehicle. I suspect I'm going to have to shift my spot on
the party committee to another Dev team member -- I want my
coding time, damnit. :)
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X-COM III under Linux -- denied
Playing with vmware. Got Win98 running using it, with
sound. Installed X-COM Apocalypse. X-COM will start and
show the intro video and sound. Wow, thinks me, this is
cool. I can play X-COM and use Linux at the same time.
Nope. I get a message that the SVGA card isn't responding
or is not there, and the game halts. This sucks. So close
yet so far.
If vmware can get both X-COM apocalypse and Transport Tycoon
Deluxe to run in its virtual machine, I'll be most happy to
buy a copy. Alas, this is not currently the case. :(
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