Firebug 1.0 beta is out. If you’re a web developer you need Firebug. It makes a lot of things easy that used to be a pain. It is marv.

Coding Horror has an excellent summary of software project postmortem resources.

In response to my comments on the CER EVD article there’s a new post on the CER IT blog and a corresponding one on Gareth’s personal site in which he defends the original post. Good for him. He also misinterprets what I wrote. In the spirit of a blogging conversation I respond below.

The IT News blog from the China Economic Review has an entry about EVD. The entry is (at best) poorly researched. I’d expect a little more quality control from CER.

One of the first things I purchased when starting university was a Casio fx-580 calculator. At the time this was an amazing machine because it did complex numbers - something engineers spend a lot of time pondering. I still have it on my desk and use it every day. Over the years, though, the screen had started to fade. That is, at least, until five minutes ago when it was cleaned for the first time in twenty years. And underneath? A shiny - non-faded - screen. Here’s to another twenty years of muck. They don’t make ‘em…

A voyage from idea to realisation across an ocean of compromise.

Q: What’s the answer to life the universe and everything?
A: 42

From Mac Geekery

So I’ve just done my regular emerge sync etc. It seems that everytime something new is installed printing stops working. The current issue was fixed by adding a line in cups.conf which explicitly tells it which network address:port to listen on. Why this worked before we’ll never know.  So here is the saving line: