So all of the wedding stuff is done and by that I mean the running around, panicing, and other the-sky-is-falling type behavior commonly expected before a wedding. Yoon and I were actually home for most of yesterday but we needed rest more than almost anything. I needed a little detox as well given the amount of cheap beer that I’ve drank over the past week or two. The ceremony itself was really wonderful and went really smoothly for being both bilingual (English and Korean) and the pastor’s first marriage in English ever. The rehearsal was a different matter and I ended up getting pretty cranky during it much to the dismay of many observing. It’s funny how something can often be that much smoother when performed in front of 200+ people than it was with 15 or so in attendance at the rehearsal. I can’t think of a succinct way to express how well it went but it seemed like magic. It’s probably best left at that. The reception was also at the church and, because it’s the rule, it rained so the whole thing had to be moved back inside at top speed which I didn’t catch much of because we had to pose for a few thousand pictures while that was going on. Things become a little blurry in retrospect. The post reception reception was also amazing and was a much needed respite after so many very quick conversations with people I haven’t seen in ages before being hustled off for photos or whatever. If you’re easily driven crazy by stuff like that I highly recommend a less formal party after the main reception. It gave me the chance to actually talk to people and to stop hyper ventilating. There is so much more to this but I’d rather leave it short and vague here for the obvious reasons.

Answering a stack of email that needed some attention is how I’m dealing with the fact that I’m the groom in a handful of hours. Needless to say, posting will probably be non existent for the next couple of days because I’ll be busy being happy. If I don’t have a nervous breakdown before then…

A couple of minutes ago I did something that I do not frequently do and deleted a post outright. I reread something I wrote while I was at work without the mental space or uninterrupted time to write coherently and released that something I’d posted earlier wasn’t very clear and could be misinterpreted. I guess I need to let things settle in the draft bin a little longer. I’m not apologizing because I don’t think I meant anything harmful but I will withdraw. I’m getting married in a couple of days and the stunned haggardness is beginning to catch up with me in not so subtle ways. Flamed or no, I probably need to step back a little.

It took me a minute to realize that there is indeed an anonymous login for the Enlightenment Bug Tracker (there’s a text link for the anonymous one) but I have to say that Mantis seems a whole lot more responsive than Bugzilla.

By the way, it looks like the crap flooders have finally figured out what the WordPress comment script is called. I really do like the comment moderation feature much more than I initially thought I would. It’s funny how tinkering in the innards of an unfamiliar piece of software will make you realize that the little features like that are really much more useful than the release features that most folks are clamoring for.

5 hours sleep over a week or two… Maybe making another pot of coffee isn’t the answer.

Andrew Tanenbaum made me feel all vindicated today by posting a follow up to his earlier statement about the Ken Brown book that refutes Linus Torvalds’ authorship of Linux. Tanenbaum says that he thinks Ken Brown’s research seems to have started and ended with the email flame war between Tanenbaum and Linus back in the pre-1.0 kernel days. You’ve almost gotta feel sorry for Ken Brown for trying to write a controversial book on things that were semi-serious ten years ago and were largely forgotten shorly after. This isn’t exactly the Kennedy assassination, you know?

Well after a semi-disaster caused by my habit of doing 90% of my command line stuff using a fast and sloppy sequence of quick edits of my shell history Team Murder rises steaming from the heap again. I just realized while I was working on making the calendar legible that today is the two year anniversary for this site. Time allegedly flies.

One of the best side effects of the MT licensing change is that it really got people to consider what they were using to run their sites and, along with that, that there were other options some of them actually easier and more featureful. I visited Python Owns Us for the first time in many moons and discovered that he’s also switched management systems albeit from homebrewed to a BSD licensed system coded in (what else) Python.

Because I have absolutely no ability to sanely manage my time I grabbed a copy of Newsbruiser and installed it on a local machine and, my god, it is simple to use.You can also precompile the sources to boost performance. In the readme file it says that it makes a big difference but I didn’t notice a whole lot of performance increase. This is nothing to get all pouty about because Newsbruiser is pretty quick even on this pathetically underpowered machine. I set up a very basic weblog in fifteen minutes. Pretty good for a start from scratch.

I was thinking about messing around with PearPC and didn’t partially because I didn’t have the time and partially because I knew that at least a few webloggers that I read regularly would give it a whirl. Phillip Pearson was the first on my list and it didn’t look like the install stuck. It sounds like exactly the sort of experimenting that I absolutely hate — the kind where everything seems to be working perfectly if slowly and you go to bed. The next morning you’re greeted with an xterm full of error messages and give the whole wretched thing up. Looking around a little further, it seems many had the same sort of trouble that Phillip had which seems pretty randomly distributed. Kevin Rose managed to get it working and Paul Donovan did it a quicker way by making a bootable OS X cd instead of installing the whole thing onto a virtual drive.

There’s also a configuration file generator for PearPC that some kind soul hacked up to try to ease the installation nightmare and also labeled the options you might not want to mess with as “Evil.” The Slashdot mentioned successful install is, of course, Slashdotted. Typical.

A note to propagandists: When one of your primary sources for an attack on someone writes an article that basically calls you clueless and likely completely dishonest you’re losing the battle and the war. I really think Brown had heard of the rift between Andrew Tanenbaum and Linus Torvalds that was probably a minor issue between the two of them ten years ago and tried to capitalize on it. It didn’t really work out and the money spent on trying to call Linux into question and cause further hesitation on the part of PHB everywhere was an utter failure. Thanks for playing.

I’ve been reading a little of the unfolding JBoss tragicomedy and, despite the fact that it is incredibly annoying, it just seems like the next logical extension of the comment spamming that plagues most weblogging software. IP addresses aren’t the best way to deal with this sort of crap flooding but it is much easier to employ when you’re dealing with real live people instead of scripts. Better yet is the ease in tying real names to fake identities and making sure that the spambots are fed real information.

I imagine that for legitimate companies (ie. ones that append corporate TLAs to their names and have actual bank accounts) this sort of crap flooding is pretty easy to pull off. Hell, JBoss even has a weblog of sorts which is notable mainly for it’s incredible overuse of the new “Professional Open Source” slogan. This new revelation can’t help the “campaign” much now can it?

Probably should’ve included this damning and more detailed account as the primary link instead of the Slashdot mediocrity…

I really think that the WordPress templating system is a lot easier to understand than the Movable Type system of splitting all of the templates into components and generally making the whole process a lot more difficult than the simplification that CSS was at least partially intended to spur. It’s basically one big file attached to an index with a little bit of what is admittedly still pretty alien looking PHP wedged in there. Most of it is pretty self-explanatory or easy to figure out by the hunt and peck method of making changes since dynamically created pages are a hell of a lot faster in this respect than the static HTML pages will ever be. Nonetheless, we’re busy folks so this kind soul annotated the entire default stylesheet so much of the pain of messing around pointlessly trying to get one little detail working is eliminated. Solid work.

For all of those about to agggregate: I finally set up a redirect for my non existent index.rdf so a portion of the 404s that have been filling up my logs will finally subside. I blew out the Movable Type archives completely which contributes to the general confusion more but save me an incredible amount of disk space. With any luck Google will catch up eventually.

Another unintentionally brilliant bit of spam dadaist poetry:

A few mirrors, and behind bubble bath) to arrive at a state of cup Where we can slyly borrow money from our vacuum cleaner. Unlike so many swamps who have made their radioactive bonbon to us.