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Articles for 2003

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January

• New year, new blog Wednesday 1 at 23:38
  Back from Folkstone, with a new year's resolution and some new blog entries.
• MakeMaker not manifying Saturday 4 at 06:46
  ExtUtils::MakeMaker doesn't bother making man pages for Perl modules whose names start with ‘Config’. You have to list explicitly which ones to make man pages for.
• Poems Online goes live Saturday 4 at 22:16
  I've published some free out-of-copyright poetry on a website.
• To keepe my name vngorg'd Friday 24 at 22:28
  I'm losing the Rosie's Dumplings domain name, breaking all my links. Now ungwe.org will be my (this time) permanent home.

March

• The Dreaded Command Line Thursday 13 at 21:52
  I gave a talk to WYLUG. The slides are available.
• Turning off automatic indentation in Vim Saturday 15 at 22:10
  An attempt at getting rid of the bane of my text editing life. Not as easy as you'd think, or hope.

April

• Linux Babble, Apache training, RSS feeds Thursday 3 at 20:00
  I've published all of two news articles on a little Linux website. Some ideas about RSS aggregation.
• More thoughts on RSS Saturday 5 at 19:12
  My RSS feed is now version 1.0, the RDF one. Some other random notes about aggregators and prune juice.
• Unicode, freaky puzzle Tuesday 8 at 12:02
  Some funny Unicode characters from Tamil, and a Perl empirical proof of a puzzle.
• An evening at the ballet Sunday 13 at 02:30
  Review by a ballet outsider of a show by the kids of the Kate Simmons dance school, and of course Royce.
• Mplayer, the real-time clock, and scaling Wednesday 16 at 23:27
  The Linux kernel won't let non-root users use the RTC, except for at really low frequencies.
• The Poltergeist in the Loo Saturday 19 at 18:03
  We got locked out of our own bathroom. It was a bit weird. We had to kick a hole in the door.
• Poltergeist may have been a burglar Sunday 20 at 00:45
  Looks like we were locked out of our bathroom on purpose, by some hapless burgler.

May

• XML catalogs with RXP Saturday 10 at 23:54
  By setting an environment variable it's possible to get RXP to use an XML catalog, rather than downloading all DTDs.
• I've written some more blurb Tuesday 20 at 00:05
  There are a couple more articles on Linux Babble.
• Search indexing and zombies Tuesday 20 at 20:24
  Some notes on writing a search engine in Perl. IO::Pipe doesn't automatically close on destruction, so you get zombies left behind.

June

• New toy: digital camera Thursday 5 at 23:51
  Bought a cheap digital camera. Doesn't work on Linux yet.
• Pigeons at the bus stop Sunday 22 at 19:43
  Getting reflective, for some reason.
• Half-certified Linux professional Friday 27 at 16:57
  I've passed the LPI 101 exam, which wasn't hard.
• Failed attempts at converting XHTML to PDF with FOP Monday 30 at 21:23
  XSL-FO is interesting, but FOP doesn't work. At all.

July

• Serendipitous Washing Machine Monday 14 at 23:18
  I found a washing machine. On the way to the launderette.
• Perl test-suite for validating POD Monday 14 at 23:24
  Automatically finds Perl modules and validates them with Pod::Checker.

August

• Moved house, John & Ali's wedding Monday 25 at 10:35
  I'm living all on my own. John and Ali got married.

September

• Silly GUI theme obsessions Tuesday 23 at 22:29
  The path to a usable Linux desktop is littered with the corpses of theme engines for media players.

October

• Hot noodle Saturday 4 at 13:53
  Hot pot noodles are quite hot.
• Interesting films again Tuesday 7 at 10:50
  Some notes about Interstella 5555 (anime to Daft Punk) and Pandora's Box (silent film to live organ music).
• Giving up Saturday 11 at 15:30
  My last cigarette, or not.
• Interesting revision control interface idea Saturday 25 at 08:40
  I had a dream, about revision control. Kill me now.

November

• File::stat has a serious bug in Perl 5.6.1 Saturday 1 at 11:14
  Don't bother with File::stat. Just use the builtin stat function.
• Glühwein and Rauchzipferl Saturday 29 at 15:13
  Leeds German market offers spicy sausages and hot wine.
• Bloody iTunes Saturday 29 at 15:25
  iTunes doesn't work on Linux, or in this country. Forget it.
• Text::VimColor on CPAN Saturday 29 at 16:21
  My first CPAN module is now published.
• Generating PNG images using Perl and SNG Saturday 29 at 16:42
  Some ideas about how ESR's SNG utility might be useful.

December

• New improved Text::VimColor (again) Tuesday 9 at 22:41
  Version 0.07 offers massive performance boost.
• Article about Text::VimColor Sunday 14 at 13:58
  A guy liked my Perl module enough to write an article about it.
• Spiffy picture from sine and cosine Sunday 21 at 21:28
  I've rendered someone else's equation and it looks very nice.

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