I was listening with two of my boys last night to an early Five Iron Frenzy 'live' concert album. Boy, I'm sorry we didn't discover them until the year after the band broke up.

I love the brass sound they had, and I get a kick out of some of their lyrics (blue comb, for instance).

Tcler's Wiki

This web site is home for all sorts of information about the Tcl programming language. It is a groupware type wiki - that is to say, there's no person or person's mandating specific formatting, organization, etc.

Another day older and deeper in debt...

Anyone out there ever play Fluxx?
http://www.wunderland.com/LooneyLabs/Fluxx/Default.html
is the official web page. If you have a Palm Pilot, there's even a free version to play there - called MicroFluxx;
go to http://www.nosleep.net/ to find the latest version.

A Tcl note. I got word this week that a bug fix created by one of the contractors who work here is going to make it into Tk 8.4.7. This fix allows sparc solaris users to interact with japanese x input method software. This is something that has been sought for quite some time at my place of employment.

It is great to hear that is happening!

wow - how rainy it is today.

Spent an hour last night with my favorite (okay, and only) daughter as she practiced her driving skills. Do parents ever make it past the fearful stage and into a comfortable stage?

Then, later in the evening, a friend of one of the kids was reported to have expressed concern about me not liking her.
I was told it was because a friend of the family had told her this.
She's young, so she's not learned to just step up to the plate and ask someone directly what the deal is, I guess.

Watched Matchstick Men last nite on DVD. Wow - what twisted minds wrote the original, then screwed with the original ending because 'the audience will be unhappy' ...

One of the frustrations I am dealing with lately has to do with building my local tcl distribution. It involves finding the latest versions of the various extensions (modules, packages, whatever you wish to call them) and getting them to build and install appropriately.

For an example of the kind of frustrations encountered - one of the extensions requires linkage against libxml2 - a recent version. However, the OS itself only comes with an older version of the library. I've attempted to build a newer version of the library, but attempts to link statically against that new version have failed miserably.

There is a company who makes a build of many of the needed pieces available pre-built. Alas, the compilation license used makes the idea of pursuing the appropriate approvals from two companies daunting; and I still would be faced with building extensions after it was all said and done.

what a wet evening last night. On our way to a church service about an hr or so away, and for at least 20-30 minutes the rain was so bad it was tough to see out. My wife was driving at the time - I tried to swap with her, but she was determined to stick it out.

Finally got ahead of the storm and got to the location.
A tiny bit of the storm came along later, but nothing as bad as we was in while driving there.

Back from the 4th of July/Independence Day holiday.
Didn't do a lot - hung out with the kids and wife, went to church, then a parade and fireworks on Sunday. Watched television, played video game, read, did some dishes and laundry. Acted as taxi driver.