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Some recently-released indie comix & anthologies: MEKA,
Flight vol. 1, agent44 digest,
exitmusic.

(really, I’m just taking notes on this for later)

The minimal MoinMoin theme (installs in <wikidir>/data/plugin/theme):

import urllib
from MoinMoin import config, i18n, wikiutil, version
from MoinMoin.Page import Page
from MoinMoin.theme.classic import Theme as ThemeBase

class Theme(ThemeBase):
    name = "my-fancy-new-theme"

    def __init__(self, request):
        ThemeBase.__init__(self, request)

def execute(request):
    return Theme(request)

It’s not quite minimal, of course; I could do without most of those
imports. But I’ll probably need them later anyway.

Fig. 1. Spy photos of the forthcoming
Power Mac G5′s new “Kool-Aid Flow Induction Unit”. [Snagged from Gizmodo]

I’ve been thinking about the rise of the web as an application platform
for a while. But what hadn’t occurred to me until I read Spolsky’s essay
last week is this, which I think is quite remarkable: Microsoft totally
fucked up when they took aim at Netscape. It wasn’t Netscape that was a
threat to Windows as an application platform, it was the web itself.

—from Daring Fireball’s The Location
Field Is the New Command Line.

Well, I did quite a bit better than last year, when I completely freaked out; in fact, when the
BEEP-BEEP-BEEP went off this morning, I had to explain to a very
disoriented and confused Erin what the sound was.

This time it seemed to have been cut off in the middle of the last beep,
so that there were five or five and a half shrill tones. I was alert
enough by the end of it to get the distinct impression that the sound
was coming from the smoke detector, so maybe it just feels a need to
stretch its legs every year or so.