Sleep
I remember being a young child and my bedtime rolling around every night and me having to go to sleep otherwise I won't wake up for school. Now I'm an *ahem* older child, and I still have to go to bed at 10:30 every night else I won't wake up for work. However right now I'm on holidays, and like a kid with the parents away, I don't really want to go to sleep. I want to stay up and hack code and play loud music and mud.

Rockclimbing
Didn't go rock-climbing today. Benni was in Bendigo looking at guitar porn with his girlfriend.

If the reports from Princeton Engineering Anomalies Research (PEAR) are actually real and reproducable, then this is all pretty amazing stuff. Humans with psionic powers (natural or engineered) is the sort of stuff I remember reading in old SciFi and Fantasy novels during high-school.

I don't think that the youth of today truly understand how important it is to become friends with your editor. I still see people who want to do their work in pico.

I suppose I had an easy transition to vi. Whereas other students were used to point-and-drool editors, I'd spent many years on local BBSs using line editors, and my favourite game at the time was Hack, which used vi keys for movement. All that made the move to vi quite natural.

Writing code on Advogato
To answer alisdair's question about displaying code on Advogato, I'd personally make use of the <pre> tags, like this:

<PRE>

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use lib '../lib';
use Finance::Quote;
use Data::Dumper;


            
        

Finance::Quote 0.18 is almost ready for release, although the documentation could do with some re-working. It'll be good to get a more stable and reliable copy of the library out there.

I now have access to more than $11.90 in cash, and the coffee is still very good.

That's not a weed, it's a feature
I'm still surprised at the large untapped and tasty food supplies we have growing around us. A large number of tasty and nutritious plants are hardy and quick-growing. So hardy and quick-growing that our society regularly sprays them with herbicides, roots them up from the ground, or otherwise tries to eliminate their existance.

It's hard to go far in Melbourne without encountering blackberry nightshade, a small plant related to tomatoes with clusters of small, black, sweet berries and edible (when cooked) leaves. The trainline near my house regularly grows clumps of salsify (aka `oyster plant') which has tasty young leaves, and a delicious and thick root similar in size to a large carrot. I'm drinking a tea made form it now, but I've also had it in stir-fried with noodles, and it is positively delicious. Unfortuanately, the train lines seem to be sprayed regularly, making them unsuitable for foraging. :( This is a shame, as I've spotted a relative of the bush banana growing along the tracks as well.

The fat-hen in my backyard is going to seed, and has attracted large numbers of small, seed-eating birds. This marvelous plant grew by itself, received no care, watering or attention, regularly had large chunks pulled off to be eaten in soups or omlettes, and eventually managed to grow taller than the house with never a single pest. The neighbours chopped the top off it from over the fence because they found it ugly. I wouldn't have minded that too much if they had eaten their harvest rather than left it.

On reflection I'm very happy with my garden. It gets either ignored or eaten, and yet it continues to grow more yummies without any input from myself. I don't even need to plant seedlings, as most of the plants are self-seeded.

For those interested in further reading on happy gardens and yummy weeds, I'd recommend Permaculture One by Bill Mollison et al, and Edible Plants of Australia and New Zealand by Tim Low.