Interesting to see that Scheme is moving forward, though not everyone is totally happy with the direction.
Dissent in the Scheme community
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Monthly Archives: August 2007
Pre-order OS X Leopard
You can pre-order Leopard from Amazon.
What will Leopard have? See Apple’s Leopard page.
Bike ride
We just biked about 2.6 miles along the Coyote Creek Trail to Embedded Way. We discovered a small foot bridge that takes you to Shady Oaks Park, a park we had not known about before.
Yod.el
Yod.el (love the name!) is a Yahoo! Messenger client for Emacs.
http://marti.textdriven.com/yodel/
I tried it and it works well, but somehow doing IM in Emacs seems clunky. This may seem blasphemous to some, but perhaps some things are best not done in Emacs.
FLAC to MP3 conversion done
It took several days of crunching on my Pentium 4 box, but now all our FLAC files (recently ripped from our CD collection) have been transcoded to MP3.
$ ./flac2mp3.pl | tee flac2mp3.out ... 325 artists, 579 albums and 7806 tracks processed $ du -sh mp3/ 42G mp3/
Now I’m doing an rsync of all of the mp3 files to another hard drive so we have a backup and then I’m going to hook up Nicole’s laptop to one of the drives and get them into iTunes so we can sync all our music to our iPods.
links for 2007-08-16
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Stock soared 76 percent, eclipsing Google’s 18 percent first-day gain. VMware’s value at closing was $19.1 billion – ranking it as Silicon Valley’s third-largest home-grown software company after Oracle and Adobe Systems