[Written on Monday, Oct 22nd, and never posted.]

Beautiful fall day today... only issue is that I am getting over a cold that hit me all weekend... hardly slept at all last night.

makefaq for Windows - In an interesting development, a person named Morgan Feldon sent me a note saying that he had converted my makefaq app to run on Windows. You can download it from his site. Now, my version, being a python app, works perfectly fine on Windows, providing you have python installed. Which, of course, many Windows sites do not. This gentleman created a .EXE file, not sure in what language.

In a quick look, it loosely follows what feldspar and I did with makefaq. It uses a similar format for the data file, although with square brackets around the tags instead of angle brackets. In a rather cool way, he puts some of the overall config info into the data file itself, rather than into separate header/footer files like makefaq does.

All in all, it is cool to see someone taking the work we started and developing it in a different way. For Windows boxes without python, this should work very well.

Literate Programming - Found this link in the docbook-apps mailing list today for "XML-Lit". Interesting stuff as it potentially makes it easier to document code. Another user on docbook-apps also wrote up his approach to the same thing.

Ottawa Python Authors Group - OPAG has an updated web site all generated dynamically using a python CGI script (of course). Kudos to Mike Soulier, OttawaDave and others for putting the site together... it looks cool!

Rebooting into Windows - I finally had to suck it up last Friday and reboot my laptop into Windows 98 in order to participate in a "virtual classroom" training session. The plugins for the browser only work on Windows. Now, I tried to participate using a browser inside of a VMWare session of Windows2K, running on top of Win2K. It was, however, a completely horrid experience. So I had to actually reboot into Windows for the first time in months. Someone here at the office suggested that I could have reniced the vmware process... yes, I could have... but the results could have been interesting... something to try sometime, I suppose.

LPI Level 2 exam - Tomorrow night, I will be proctoring the LPI Level 2 exam for 7 members of OCLUG who will be taking it here at the Mitel office. Alan Mead has made it incredibly easy to administer paper-based versions of the LPI exams. It is very cool!

Curling - Feeling too sick to go tonight... bummer...