After a slow start yesterday, I had a pretty good day. Frustrating, but good. I’m currently fighting with my compiler, which is never a great sign, but at least I made some progress in the battle, and have some hope I’ll work out the rest of the problems today. I also made some progress on a design for a client, fixing up some web-stuff for another client, and invoiced all the clients and paid the mid-month bills. Not a stellar day, but a lot more productive than I’ve been most of the rest of the month.
If you didn’t notice the mid-day updates yesterday, scroll down. There’s a bear you might want to look at if you grew up in the upper midwest anytime before the 80s.
- A Ruling clears path for Expos to move to D.C., saying MLB was not guilty of violating RICO statutes. And Christian Guzman becomes one of the ex-Expos first signed players. [colby cosh]
- In both Minneapolis and St. Paul, Streetcars [are] an idea that’s coming back. I’d like to see them, but I think the city needs to be careful not to oversell them. Sure there will be development along streetcar lines, but that will mean less development somewhere else in town. And I bet we don’t get cowboys this time around. [strib]
- The OpenBSD Users Documentations projects have kicked off and folks are attempting to document things like getting PHP and MySQL working in a chrooted apache. Handy stuff for a geek like me. [openbsd]
- There’s a discussion on Slashdot asking Is The Lone Coder Dead? It’s sure a lot more complicated, since as a solo programmer, it’s tough to be able to spend the time to make sure you’re clear of infringing any patents. Then again, a lot of the same problems are faced by programmers in larger organizations, since very few large organizations have anything in place to help do due diligence. Finally, due to vagaries in patent law, you’re actually better off knowing less if you’re planning to patent anything you do, and being a lone coder, you’re seldom worth suing. [slashdot]
- Remember the boyfriend’s arm pillow? Well, now there’s a Girlfriend’s lap pillow, too. These pink monkeys. What strange creatures. [boing boing]