Someone pointed me to this site as "like Slashdot, only with
people who can actually think". Sort of like the Scary Devil
Monastery on a web site, I guess, though the "Certification"
process seems a mite complex and also, well, kind of
limited. Also, what the hell is wrong with calling a
Journeyman a "Journeyman"? Ah well, I guess I'll write up
something about myself, troll for votes, see who bites...
and maybe use the opportunity to get some exposure for my
free software tools.
Anyway, I've been writing free software since 1981.
I've
written a lot of small programs, and worked on a few big
ones (a lot of the semantics of Tcl are my fault, for
example... Karl Lehenbauer and I contributed a lot of stuff
to it early on, though for some reason they scrubbed most of
the early contributors names from the sources around the Tcl
6-7 timeframe). I also did Patch Kit 24 to 386BSD and I've
been working on FreeBSD since the beginning.
What else? Oh, I'm the demented person who kicked
off Usenet II and The Internet namespace
Cooperative.
You can see some of the free tools I've written at
my software page.
And I can't believe that nobody caught on to the
Slashdot lawsuit hoax. Cordwainer Bird? Doesn't anyone read
*paper* books any more?
Whoops the diary code needs a little tuning.
Somewhere in there it's got a chunk of code that looks
something like...
If the last line was blank,
insert a <p> at the beginning of this line.
That really borks editing. It really needs to be...
If the last line was blank,
and this line doesn't start with a <p>
insert a <p> at the beginning of this line.
Does anyone else try to use "vi" commands when editing
something in a browser?