I guess it's time for one of those "In a nutshell" posts.

Buffy Boy's loss affected me way more than I could have expected. After all, we were never formally introduced, but it was always nice to see Buffy Boy's new pics and learn about his latest adventures. My guess is that it reminded me of Iris and how we had to put her to sleep too and was it the most painful moment in my life. It took me a solid 4 months before I could even consider owning a cat again, but I have to say I'm very glad I did and have been very happy with Athene since then. And I suspect certain furball that goes by the name of a famous musketeer will enjoy a very happy life from now on.

BSDCan is now over, and some very interesting stuff came out of it, including yet another flame between FreeBSD developer Poul-Henning Kamp and the OpenBSD guys. The questions: Who leaked the post? (It was sent to a closed mailing list, my guess is that it was Hsu, but you never know) and, more important: Why the heck is this behaviour tolerated? This has been going on for years now and, according to Greg Lehey: "phk is not speaking for freebsd". Well, good to know. That doesn't explain why he (and 2 or 3 other people) are allowed to do that.

I've been doing some work on my audio editor. I have some pretty good ideas that I want to test before moving into the interface code. Oh, and I've been listening almost non-stop to Metallica's Live Shit Binge and Purge live set. Awesome stuff. Which reminds me, I have to give my acoustic guitar another chance. It's been years since I last played it.

This week is pretty interesting because on the 19th two big events will take place: Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith opens world wide and OpenBSD 3.7 is officially out. I personally can't wait :)

Considering that the weather is getting hotter by the day and I'd rather not do a trip to the vet every 3 weeks to get food I ordered a 4Kg bag last week, in the hope that it will last until the end of the summer. I'm not going to plug any brand here, but let's say it has so far worked very well (the little girl lost 400 grams) and I'll stick to it as long as the vet is okay with it. As soon as I've arrived home Athene has started looking at the new bag with interest and given her approval. On the topic of cats, when I think about it Iris and Athene happen to be some of the nicest persons I've ever met. Honest, loyal, caring and knowing that the key to happiness lies in being able to enjoy those little things life offers. If only certain beings from other species could learn such a simple concept.

On a not so happy note, the BBC is reporting that IBM will cut 13,000 jobs worldwide. If this is what the new world economy is about, well, it plain sucks. We're not talking about a random bozo who fooled the suits into giving him VC for a crazy project, it's IBM fer Christ's sake. Anyway, good luck to those people. This incident just reminded me why I dislike corporate culture so much.

Ars Technica is running a pretty interesting article called A History of the GUI. I was already familiar with the work done by Xerox in the '70s, but it's amazing nonetheless. They created the first laserprinter in 1973. It's a shame so many people have been brainwashed into thinking Bill Gates & Co actually came up with anything original. It was also nice to see a screenshot of my beloved Amiga Workbench 1.3 after so many years :)

Plans for the weekend include getting a lot of sleep and trying to come up with a real solution to migrate the old blog. Some of the hacks I've seen out there are pretty awful, to be honest. I'll do some more research before I get my hands dirty on perl hacking. Yes, perl :)

I've been thinking about the Some Kind of Monster documentary I mentioned earlier, specially that scene when Hetfield says "I'm in a shit mood", and that's how I've felt for most of the day, mainly thanks for another headache. I know the weather is to blame this. It's already too hot to get anything done without the help of the air conditioning system. Man, do I hate the Summer-like time. I'm more of a Winter person.

Fortunately I'm managing to get some work done during this 4-day mini-holidays. And today I wanted to do some more drupalization, namely the BSD and GTK+ Send PR sections and, speaking of the devil, a new version of the latter with some small enhancements.

This time the release is dedicated to one of my favourite rascals, Buffy Boy, who has recently spent some time in a Hospital but is already home...

flynn@scienide% gtk-send-pr -v
gtk-send-pr 0.4.6 "Buffy Boy"
Copyright (c) 2003, 2004, 2005 Miguel Mendez . All rights reserved.

As for the rest of the day I'm going to listen to some music and then watch a movie which I'll write about tomorrow.

Well, not much to report from here. I was supposed to have written a little story about Windows users, but that will have to wait until tomorrow, as I've spent the better part of the evening updating the Adonthell port and setting up a -CURRENT box to test gcc 4.0 builds, as mentioned here. The nice weather is probably to blame for Athene's will to play. Not that she's not usually a very active cat, but she's been running and playing with her toys for most of the evening. Now it's time to take a nap, of course. Which reminds me: Welcome home Buffy Boy. A happy ending that it's surely welcomed and also means some friends will get some needed rest too. As I've said before, once you've spent some time with those little furballs you can't imagine life without them. I've also started drupalizing the whole site, the FAQ is done and the rest will follow very soon.