Well, OpenBeOS have finally gone live wiht their new name and website. http://www.haiku-os.org/ I wish I could say I was impressed. They have a few people making good progress, but the name really doesn’t conjure up the right image for me.
Haiku is after all one of the most rigid forms of poetry I’ve ever come [...]

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So, the cameras turned up today (right when they said it would - always nice to see). Now I just need to get a CF card so I can take some pics

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I’ve just spent the morning spending money!
Those nice people at Digital First just phoned to say that their order of Nikon D-70 kits haad arrived! Hopefully it should be here tomorrow and hopefully I’ll be here to get it The Sony P-9 will continue to be used,
but I’m looking forward to the extra abilities [...]

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Well, RC1 of APR has been tagged & rolled
The idea is just to fix our api, so bug fixes are still welcomed Got about 12 days until the final tarballs will be rolled!
Tarballs at http://www.apache.org/~dreid/

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That banks exist to make money, and therefore rip off their customers isn’t news or even surprising. That they fail to provide a service that could be described as adequate is!
I’ve banked with barclays ever since I was at college, but I’ve finally had enough. Their service has gotten worse and worse, with several small [...]

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Over the last few days I’ve started looking at BONE in more detail and trying to figure out how it all fits together. I’ve had an interest in writing/working on a modular stack for a while now, and BONE is what we have on BeOS so it’s a good place to start. It’s modular nature [...]

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Well, another fun few days in Chicago. Met up with Fitz again this afternoon and went to a book fair, did lunch and generally hung out. Sun was out for a change and it felt very summery. Great day!
Should be home tomorrow and then I’m making the trek up to London to atten NotCon 2004. [...]

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After spending a bit of time working on soemthing it’s easy to start feeling a little too attached it to be really subjective. I think everyone tries but we are all human and it’s inevitable. So, after some discussions (mostly negative) I found myself at a place whereby I couldn’t find the energy to continue [...]

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Well, after a false starts and a small amount of sweat, I’ve now got the contents of the BeBook into xml. The actual conversion was always going to leave some rough edges so now those need to be found and smoothed. The actual conversion to html also needs to be worked on as it’s not [...]

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