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 == May 2007 ==
 
+=== Thu, 31th ===
+
+==== News Feed ====
+
+Today Rasky suggested that we could use an RSS feed to notify
+about new articles in the blog.
+
+I wanted to fulfill the same purpose, but with a totally
+different approach: use git-send-email to notify a mailing-list
+and tell people: "hey, just subscribe to the list!".
+
+My version is surely too complicated because it employs
+a chain of 4 different programs (pikiwiki -> git -> git-mail -> mailman).
+But I like that it can be done without even touching the wiki
+engine.
+
+A middle-ground solution could be using gitweb's own
+RSS feed:
+
+ http://bender.codewiz.org/wikigit/wiki.git?a=rss
+
+But as Rasky notes, this would send notifications
+also for minor edits: real blog apps would only
+bother you for new articles.
+
+So, maybe we should filter only changesets that
+contain a new level 3 header... Hmmm... This
+can't be done with gitweb, I'm afraid.
+
+We live in an era where we can make very cool
+things with very little effort.  I could hack
+this versioned wiki engine in just 2-3 days
+because I could pick the existing PikiPiki and
+combine it with the existing Git versioning
+system.
+
+This brings me to the point: the really hard thing
+in software design is choosing the right ingredients
+for your sausage.  Because there are many ways to
+bake a pizza, but only a few of them have the
+quality of being tasty, healty, dietetic, cheap
+or whatever.  And usually, even a good design...
+err... receipe requires you to choose a few of
+these qualities you care more.
+
+'''Q''': What do you think is the most elegant way to
+obtain useful notification from this blog?
+
+You can choose whatever technology to deliver some
+kind of "notification".  You can also use any
+sensible definition of the words "useful" and "elegant".
+
+
+==== Hop hop! ====
+
+Today I typed ##cvs up -dP## to update Gnash from CVS.
+And I got the prompt back in less than 1s.
+
+"Something must be broken!", I thought!   In fact, it's
+blazingly fast because we're just 2ms away from Savannah:
+
+{{{
+PING cvs.savannah.gnu.org (199.232.41.69) 56(84) bytes of data.
+64 bytes from cvs.savannah.gnu.org (199.232.41.69): icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=2.31 ms
+64 bytes from cvs.savannah.gnu.org (199.232.41.69): icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=2.21 ms
+64 bytes from cvs.savannah.gnu.org (199.232.41.69): icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=2.00 ms
+}}}
+
+And it's not even in MIT:
+
+{{{
+traceroute to cvs.savannah.gnu.org (199.232.41.69), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
+ 1  passport-9-16.media.mit.edu (18.85.46.1)  1.756 ms  1.695 ms  1.845 ms
+ 2  amtgw.media.mit.edu (18.85.0.1)  2.230 ms  1.248 ms  1.150 ms
+ 3  EXTERNAL-RTR-1-BACKBONE.MIT.EDU (18.168.0.18)  1.409 ms  1.435 ms  1.374 ms
+ 4  EXTERNAL-RTR-2-BACKBONE.MIT.EDU (18.168.0.27)  1.391 ms  1.389 ms  1.426 ms
+ 5  207.210.143.109 (207.210.143.109)  1.428 ms  1.505 ms  1.414 ms
+ 6  207.210.143.138 (207.210.143.138)  12.756 ms  2.162 ms  1.998 ms
+ 7  ge-2-1-0-000.ar1.qcy1.ma.gnaps.NET (199.232.44.142)  4.879 ms  2.592 ms  2.485 ms
+ 8  cvs.savannah.gnu.org (199.232.41.69)  2.713 ms  7.476 ms  13.328 ms
+}}}
+
+Boston sure has a very fast WAN backbone!
+
+
+=== Wed, 30th ===
+
+ Ciao Berni!!! Te tu sei un grande, qui dalla OTE ti si saluta con affetto!!!
+
+Grazie ragazzi!  Il sentimento e' reciproco!  Uno di questi giorni
+dovete proprio venire a bere una birra qua a Boston!
+
+==== More Graphics Headaches ====
+
+Hehe, more graphics problems keep sprinkling: XorgGraphicsCorruption.
+CosmicPenguin was kind enough to offload me of the graphics related bugs.
+
+
 === Tue, 29th ===
 
 ==== Tracking ====
@@ -420,7 +518,7 @@ $12 ''EACH'', I mean.
 
 Walking home alone in the night, I may encounter some ''bad'' guys:
 
-http://bender.codewiz.org/wikidata/text/FunWithWeapons.jpg
+http://bender.codewiz.org/FunWithWeapons.jpg
 
 Better be careful :-)
 
@@ -670,4 +768,4 @@ is your friend.
 
 As always, I'd very much appreciate being told about any mistake I make.
 
-''Massimo: ok, let's start with those horrible contractions my poor eyes had to read: '''Won't''' and '''I'd'''. Hey Bernie! You already went back home from NYC. Ain't gonna play with ya 'nymore!''
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+''Massimo: ok, let's start with those horrible contractions my poor eyes had to read: '''Won't''' and '''I'd'''. Hey Bernie! You already went back home from NYC. Ain't gonna play with ya 'nymore!''