Archive 30. December 2005

LGT: Lightweight Game Toolkit for Python - particularly interesting are the NanoThreads (coroutines for Python), the EventNet (enhanced event programming) and Gherkin (an alternative to Pickle/Marshal). There is now an enhanced successor to NanoThreads and EventNet called FibraNet (which is independent of LGT).

newsRiver - Aggregator for the OPML Editor

Dave Winer released newsRiver.root - his aggregator for the OPML Editor. And what happened again - as so often with him? The character set support is complete garbage. The thing can only correctly read feeds with iso-8859-1, utf-8 feeds get broken special characters. I would really be interested to know if he will ever understand the purpose of character sets like utf-8, or if he will ever give his software a proper basis to support more than just the system character set.

Apart from that, his OPML Editor still forces me to start MSIE - sorry, but that is really ridiculous. And of course there is no easy place to change that - presumably I can change it if I change a setting somewhere in the depths of the Frontier database, which will then possibly be overwritten by the next update ...

And after some searching I found it: in opml.root you have to look for system.verbs.builtins.webBrowser and change the two scripts getDefaultBrowser and launch. In getDefaultBrowser the default is set to MSIE for Carbon, which must be changed to sfri. And in launch you have to add sfri as a valid selection. And yes, the next update in the region will flatten that again ...

SIXTUS.NET - Blog | Dad, where do all these spam comments actually come from? Well, my child, they come from Lindlar, from Sebastian Foss - cute, when a supplier for spam software is then found to be based in Germany. However, this does not surprise me - we also have the dialer scammers.

TP: Not yet tapped to the fullest - 38% of those surveyed agree with the ideas of Intelligent Design. In Germany. On to the Middle Ages ...

Webstemmer - HTML-Grabber that extracts the actual core text from websites based on the layout.