Tuesday, March 21, 2006

Link Dump
Ok, I need to get all these links off my desktop. So here we go.


Why you should choose math in high school. Twelve reasons why you should take lots of math in high school.


Revision control and change tracking with OO Writer. Woh, OpenOffice Writer has document change tools. Cool.


Interview with Alan Moore, author of the V is for Vendetta comic book (the basis for the movie).


Anagram of DC Metro map. As a non-DC native, but a frequenter of that fine city, I got a few of the references.


box.net - free online backup/file storage (with high aspirations). Or you could keep everything in a subversion repository like me, but I'll admit there are disadvantages to this too.


Why youth <3 myspace.


AppleDouble Support for Subversion. Except one little thing:
However, due to the way subversion caches auto-properties, it cannot detect when you modify the type/creator or resource fork. The archive also contains a helper script that you can use to manually update the property after you modify a file's attributes, so that status and commit calls work as expected.
Sooo in other words: it's a hack. Hmmm... it would be nice to have a pre-commit client side script do this. Don't remember if that's actually possible or not.


appcasting: get the newest version of apps you use via RSS. The next killer feature for Versiontracker.

I really hope they are listening. (Have individual product feeds, or just one big feed with enclosures. This would fit the people using podcasting that just set and forget, and people like me who pick and choose things that come through there news reader.


Why Not Python: A C Hacker Looks at Python (4 article series). Cool.


And that's all she wrote, folks.