More Bats

This time in the bedroom while I was asleep. Two rounds of one each:    (NJU)

chris: zzzz    (NJV)

[noises]    (NJW)

chris: shut up kitty    (NJX)

[flapping]    (NJY)

chris: mmmrph?    (NJZ)

[lights on to reveal a strangely slow moving bat and an excited kitty]    (NK0)

I trundle off down the hall to fetch that which the garage provides, swoop it up in one attempt, and deliver it outside.    (NK1)

chris: zzzz    (NK2)

[noises, noises that might be coming from the wall air conditioner]    (NK3)

chris: thoughts of ignoring it followed by resignation    (NK4)

I trundle off down the hall to fetch that which the garage provides, swoop it up in one attempt, and deliver it outside.    (NK5)

[spotlight on air conditioner as it receives an inconclusive inspection]    (NK6)

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Hurley's Endurance

The headline at The Guardian: Shackleton expedition pictures were 'faked' made me whimper.    (NIM)

The story of the crew of the Endurance is one of my favorites. The thought of having it revealed many years later, on a BBC documentary, as a scare-quotes reality show threatened to break my little heart.    (NIN)

Turns out, thankfully, that while Hurley did manipulate and sometimes stage images, it was a case of giving his artistic side a lead but not a complete win over his journalistic side. I find this appropriate: where the medium in its base form cannot transmit the meaning, a little help that colors is okay because no medium can transmit the truth.    (NIO)

The title of the BBC documentary is a nice double entendre: Frank Hurley - The Man Who Made History.    (NIP)

   (NIQ)

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Going To Seattle

Just to make it official, as apparently I've not made an official announcement: I'm moving to Seattle. On or about labor day my lovely participant and I will hop in the car with Thomasina the cat and head into the sunset on a grand adventure.    (NGQ)

I have a small car. I'm not taking much with, so I'm attempting to unload just about everything I own. If you're in the vicinity of Bloomington, my loss can be your gain. See StuffForSaleOrFree for all sorts of stuff from around the house that is going cheap or free. Some of it is an absolute steal. If you know folk that need stuff, feel free to point them to that wiki page.    (NGR)

I've been told a party of some sort is in order. Okay, let's have a party where you have to take something I'm trying to get rid of with you when you go home. When's good?    (NGS)

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Figures

You are water. You're not really organic; you're
neither acidic nor basic, yet you're an acid
and a base at the same time. You're strong
willed and opinionated, but relaxed and ready
to flow. So while you often seem worthless,
without you, everything would just not work.
People should definitely drink more of you
every day.

Via Bill de hÓra (enzyme) and Danny Ayers (glucose).

I don't know whether to feel good or bad about this. Which sounds right on.

This quiz has an ineffable quality that appeals beyond the usual quizilla dreck. What is it?

(I note that it's a huge pain in the ass writing a blog entry in HTML rather than wiki text.)

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PurpleWiki 0.94

I've just announced PurpleWiki version 0.94 with the announcement included below. This new version is way fancy and flexible. I've been playing on my PersonalWiki.    (ND2)

We're proud to announce not one, but two new releases of PurpleWiki.    (NCH)

The newest release, 0.94, is a quick bug fix to 0.93 which provides a large number of new and useful features that vastly improve the appearance and usability of PurpleWiki:    (NCI)

We're proud to announce not one, but two new releases of PurpleWiki.    (NCJ)

The newest release, 0.94, is a quick bug fix to 0.93 which provides a large number of new and useful features that vastly improve the appearance and usability of PurpleWiki:    (NCK)

• Support for a customized look and feel using: ** Templates and TemplateToolkit? ** XHTML 1.1 strict compliance with better CSS handling ** An improved default stylesheet ** CreateLinkBefore? and CreateLinkText? configuration settings that allow customized link styles for undefined wiki words    (NCL)

• Refactored user and session management that provides support for: ** Visited links breadcrumbs for easier navigation ** Basic access control, including a LoginToEdit? configuration item    (NCM)

• Support for Identity Commons i-names.    (NCN)

• Support for MoinMoin? style triple braces markup for sections of preformatted text.    (NCO)

• Support for converting MoinMoin? page databases to PurpleWiki.    (NCP)

• Support for built-in RSS syndication (action=rss), removing the need for external cron scripts.    (NCQ)

• Major bug fixes with the handling of old revisions and saving new versions. Viewing and reusing old versions of pages now works.    (NCR)

Please read the UPGRADE file included in the distribution for detailed instructions on the steps required to upgrade an existing wiki.    (NCS)

The latest version can be retrieved from the PurpleWiki distribution page    (NCT)

  http://www.blueoxen.org/tools/purplewiki/    (NCU)

and will be available via CPAN sometime today (August 11th). There is also a Freshmeat entry at    (NCV)

  http://freshmeat.net/projects/purplewiki/    (NCW)

To see the new version in action, visit the PurpleWiki Wiki:    (NCX)

  http://purplewiki.blueoxen.net/    (NCY)

If you have questions or comments about PurpleWiki, please subscribe to one of the mailing lists described at    (NCZ)

  http://purplewiki.blueoxen.net/cgi-bin/wiki.pl?MailingLists    (ND0)

and post there or comment on the PurpleWiki Wiki.    (ND1)

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The Garage Provides

I've just had the pleasure of a visit from not one, nor two, but three bats. Nor were these like the cute dude who spent some time with me a while back. That bat was little, and very tired, and happy to be caught in a cup.    (ABO)

Catching these bats required the assistance of an implement of science from the garage. Perhaps a butterfly net? Or miscellaneous bug net. Or even a bat net. I fetched it. The garage provides.    (ABP)

I took my stance in the corner the room. Swing! One bat snagged and delivered to the outdoors.    (ABQ)

I made ready for bat number two, but this one was wise to my ways. At the last minute it did what bats do and took a wild curve. The rim of my net encountered bat. Bat encountered bookshelf and lay, stunned.    (ABR)

I was crippled by guilt. But the bat stirred and wiggled, and I scooped it into the net. Once outside, the bat flew away.    (ABS)

Relief.    (ABT)

Back inside the remaining bat was tired and large. I swung. I missed. I swung again. Missed again. Again I swung and the bat was retired, noisily, to the out of doors.    (ABU)

Where did the bats come from? I don't know.    (ABV)

But the garage provides.    (ABW)

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PurpleWiki 0.93

PurpleWiki version 0.93 is nearly ready to go. This is a test post to make sure it still works with the MovableType plugin.    (AAK)

New features include:    (AAL)

• Templating support so the look of the wiki can be dramatically altered.    (AAM)
• Sessions for users, allowing fun things like:    (AAN)
  • A LoginToEdit? config item    (AAO)
  • Visited links (a sort of breadcrumb)    (AAP)
• Better XHTML and CSS support    (AAQ)

etc etc. It's a rather dramatic set of changes. The full list will be published here and a few other places when the release happens (tonight or tomorrow). This is just a test post. So here's some tests:    (AAR)

I am a header    (AAS)

• And a mixed    (AAU)
  1. List    (AAV)
     • where things    (AAW)
  2. are weird    (AAX)
• and such.    (AAY)

Update: My primary wiki is now running the new code with some diddling done to the default css and templates. The purplewiki wiki is running the same code, with the default templates.    (ABH)

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