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Been checking out Amphetadesk again lately. Amphetadesk is a desktop RSS reader, currently in alpha for version 0.93. Its creator, Morbus (aka Kevin), has been doing a great job - Amphetadesk has a new architecture that makes for easy hackability, a virtue for any perl-based software, which Amphetadesk is.

I also appreciate that Amp (as it is affectionately known by some) is faceless and completely background - it’s just there, taking up precious few resources while doing it’s work.

Find the winblows alpha download here.

For future reference: Setting up an OS X client as a NetInfo Master.

While the rest of the world hunts terrorists or monopolists, India and Pakistan have had it up to their earlobes with each other and are amassing, well, masses of soldiers on the 2000 mile border between the two nations.

Then there’s this:

Both armies are modernizing fast: … their compulsive rivalry is buying them new combat aircraft, new airborne warning and control systems and missiles, new tanks, new artillery.

And this doesn’t include the nuclear option, if it can be called that.

I have to admit that this situation has me worried. A nuclear conflict anywhere in the world is going to have a global effect, and some are predicting that a nuclear event on the Indian subcontinent would result in 9-12 million people dead. I cannot comprehend that level of destruction. To compare: in 1945, the last time nuclear weapons were used in wartime, the death toll from Nagasaki and Hiroshima was 240,000.

Heh. Megnut says goodbye to Windows and ASP, and “Hellooooooooooo, Aqua!“. Muahahahaha…

AKMA blogs Forgiveness, in a deep and touching way:

Forgiving wrongs requires us to take them utterly seriously as injuries to one another and to the relationships of which we form a part.

And:

I tell myself, “It doesn’t matter”–but I am not the one who may make that discernment. I’m not in a position to know how badly Margaret wanted pepper on her eggs, nor even of whether she ought to have wanted pepper that much.

David Weinberger follows up with:

My religion, Judaism, … puts particular stress on making whole what one has ruptured through one’s bad behavior. Yes, you resolve not to do it again, and yes, you don’t let that behavior rend the fabric of the relationship. But you also run out to the store immediately and buy Margaret some more damn pepper.

As a married man (going on 4 years now) I find that these lessons are the most valuable, and the hardest to face, and the hardest to learn. Part of marriage to me is letting go of “I want”; every day, every hour, loving the other person more than yourself. You can do this (theoretically) because the other person is doing the same. Of course, we are none of us perfect, which brings us to the essential necessity of forgiveness.

The Xopus project (I have no idea how to pronounce it) has released some code that lets you do WYSISYG editing in Mozilla. It’s still pre-release quality, but the samples on their page are impressive.

Well, Nate’s gone and done it again. This time it’s wall art - a 486 laptop wrapped up as a Gameboy. Nate is amazing - this thing changes pictures every few minutes.