It turns out that I can think of good subjects for postings when
I am driving around in my car. Then, I forget what I was thinking about
not long after. Anyway, I wanted to make up for not writing anything
last week, and writing a paltry little the week before by creating
something good today. I tend not to plan the content of my posts out,
so I have no idea how much I will be writing next.
First off, my "link of the week" is pretty interesting. Henry Hazlitt's
Economics in One Lesson which can be read entirely online. I've
read up to Part 2-16, and am constantly amazed at how relevant the
essay is, especially in regards to the Wall Street bailout, the talk of
a "Big-3" auto-makers bailout, and the general economic reporting on the
news. Which is, by the way, generally awful.
I am amused that I didn't find the link on a site like reason.com, which
I read pretty regularly, but on a post in a blog linked off of Planet Python.
It should be a handy link to pass to people when I'm asked, occasionally,
to explain my opinion on the current econ. talk going around.
At work, yet another animated movie is coming out from a company that
is a customer. I usually feel funny about posting about work related
things, because I don't want to accidentally give out any secret info. :-)
But since the some of the customers are right there on the front of the
company webpage, I don't mind linking to that.
And it is kind of funny looking at the website, as someone on the inside,
the marketing oriented material is like a fun-house mirror view of what
were talking about all the time.
Lastly, for fun, I've started fooling around with some python code that
would be used to organize and label my music collection (mostly mp3/ogg)
outside of Amarok. I love that program, but the new version lacks some
of the file management features that the KDE 3 version had. It is also
a bit of a pain to fire up a GUI application on the headless box just
to pull files from an outside directory into the collection and have them
end up in the tree structure I like. It's also a bit of a playground for
doing things like trying to copy the way mercurial does it's test scripts.
