Breakfast
August 29, 2005
Today’s breakfast (just consumed) consisted of Devon scones, cut in halves and covered with a thick layer of clotted cream and with a fine helping of a lovely Apricot & Amaretto jam which we bought at Kew Gardens in April. It was fantastic.
Sashimi & Zoo
August 29, 2005
Nadia and I found ourselves in Swiss Cottage yesterday, as she was doing a house-call fixing and upgrading computers for friends of her family. When we finished, about twenty past two, and decided to go for lunch, we ended up at a japanese sushi-place.
I’ve never had sushi before (I’m not really a big fan of seafood) but I was in the mood for trying something new. We had for 3 sashimi dishes for starters: salmon, tuna and seabass. Nadia really enjoyed the salmon, but didn’t like the tuna. I liked the seabass best, but didn’t like the salmon (I don’t know why, but salmon just doesn’t agree with my tastebuds–I’ve tried it smoked, steamed, baked, boiled, fried and now raw). I had a lovely battered and fried seabass with teri-yaki sauce as the main course.
After eating we went to the London Zoo and saw monkeys and other animals.
2 MBit
August 20, 2005
Apparently I now have been upgraded to 512 to 2 MBit ADSL. Nadia’s brother tells me this. I have no use for the extra bandwith, so I was about to raise my voice, but then he told me that it was part of plus.net’s standard service, and that there was no extra charge. So I guess it’s okay then.
Meh.
Auto-generated project docs
August 19, 2005
I used to have to go through the process of rendering XHTML versions of the manpages for my projects (most notably sl and ggtl) every time I made any change to them.
Not so anymore! I now use SVK modules to pull the source directly from the subversion archive and Pod::Xhtml to render the documentation into XHTML. The only downside is that if I move files in the subversion repository, I’ll have to update the site to make sure we’re pulling in the files from the right place.
As a side effect, this allowed me to strip a lot of text from my site, as shown by this diffstat:
css/site.css | 9
software/ggtl/doc/autohandler | 5
software/ggtl/doc/ggtl-nim.html | 110 -------
software/ggtl/doc/ggtl-reversi.html | 201 -------------
software/ggtl/doc/ggtl.html | 542 ------------------------------------
software/ggtl/doc/reversi-demo.html | 88 -----
software/pod.mas | 22 +
software/sl/doc/index.html | 138 ---------
8 files changed, 41 insertions(+), 1074 deletions(-)
The CSS additions were necessary to keep the same look as before (Pod::Html does slightly different markup, but won’t accept string input or give string output, so I saw it necessary to change).
Long live CPAN!
HTML::TagCloud
August 19, 2005
If you scroll to the bottom of this page you might notice that the tag list has had a facelift. This is curtesy of Léon Brocard’s HTML::TagCloud module. Long live CPAN!
