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.

First of all I'd like to thank Jim Dutton from Illinois for sending me Steve Pate's "UNIX Filesystems", from my Amazon wishlist. Thanks a bunch Jim! You know, it's not that I write these programs expecting anything in return, but it's very nice to see people appreciate your work, be it an e-mail saying thanks or, in this case, making a developer happy by providing tools that in the end will result in more free software developed. So thanks again, Jim.

In other news it seems like Drupal is here to stay. The more I play with the system the more I like it. It's powerful, extremely customizable but still very easy to use. I still have to find a proper solution to migrate the old MT content to this new site. Most of the proposals I've seen assume a MySQL backend, which is not the case.

I was eating some Rice Krispies® and have discovered that Athene finds them fascinating. She just couldn't help herself from trying to pick some. Of course, in classic cat behaviour, once she's been offered one all interest has vanished.

I'd say it's been a very nice day altogether, save for the fact that I'm still waiting for Buffy Boy's recovery. It's interesting when one sees that only people who live with cats can truly understand how strong an attachment you develop to those little rascals.

Oh, thanks to Drupal's URL aliasing you can keeping getting the RSS feed from index.rdf, no need to change any settings.