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More and more piano these nights. Days are filled by learning Zope's python API.. Close to get an official new job.

It's surprising (and nice) to see my so quickly written pop3 library giving some interests.. to be ported on win32. Maybe it is just because of the easy API. Howerver, this will force me to rewrite the internals because it is really a dirty lib since it was first intended to be used by myself at home, without any expectation of quality or robustness. Well.. libspopc-0.4b is in the oven..

ah, at last i have found an easy way to access remote files without bothering with RFCs : gnome-vfs may be eventually my friend. Actually i'm not a gnome user, but if gnome-vfs is not too much dependent to the other libraries, i may have happy coding. Eh, i don't know why gnome-compliant applications doesn't use it as heavily as one would like for ftp/http/ and virtual folders. ah... virtual folders.. well.. it would be good to integrate it to the desktop. Current desktops are simply too much basic (even the great *put-what-you-want* one).

Btw, merci jschurger for barque which will help me (just by looking at your code) to learn a little the use of gnome-vfs.

indians and land
Although excitation pushes me to put such a premature note, i would like to define reasonably the embryo on which i currently pay attention :
it is about a set of library and software to be used for data classification, representation and sloppy allocation (!). Well, the problem is vast and i may have to put some limits to my vision in order to be able to release someday, something simple and usable enough. My goal is not directed towards an Universal Generic Lashered Yngenious system because (1) i am actually a neophyte on this topic, and (2) UGLY things like that are not instantly usable. A simple piece of software to help a little in the management of subjective content data will be enough. I guess things like that already exists and i am actually at a learning stage. Unfortunately, my oficial background in the university was only focused on pure cs, but i am learning ways of subjective vision of different 'content types' and how 2 people can see it through 2 perpendicular ways.

Well, as a short tour, i plan to write a 3 layer library containing a flexible and simple data representation (graph or hyper-graph, gimme my 'Berge' man!), over which one will have pluggable more or less classical nodeset retrieval algorithms. The graphs would be build from a particular text file format, filled by taxonomial workers (which i call 'indians' because of the precious knowledge they carry). Due to my background, the most difficult part to me is the taxonomial part. So, i'm currently reading and reading. That't enough for now...
mmmh, i may have wrote to much.

now under a 8KB cheap cable connection. 99% online... (the computer, not me). I'm writting a lead voice for the last lily bagatelle..

Holidays...: a first lilypond try, an old "bagatelle" of mine... Lilypond is nice.. more easy than MusixTeX for me, but i like the two differrent ways of writing. Well, I have to make a nicer layout but it is already readable. It must not be played as it is written, it must be very Rubato. In fact, it is not the main part, but just an harmonic theme to help a lead oboe or clarinet to improvise on top of it. ( dvi). (french) ... arh.. if you really can't figure out how to sing in your head all those black and white drops , just take the AWFUL midi generated file... beurk.. and you will definitly throw the dvi in your trash.

Patched denemo to fix a "not so blank rest" bug in XML import/export and a slur problem in lilypond export.Well it works fine but i am not sure that the lilypond slurs export is now semantically correct. It would be good to discuss about it. Anyway, if you too are fed up with non blank rests in XML import/export when you use multiple voices in one staff, check the patch here. or at sourceforge patch-tracker of denemo.

Patched CVS's Sylpheed-claws to keep track of message references even on non-threaded view. Feel free to test it better before i put it on the sylpheed patch-tracker website..

came back from paragliding in the Alps. Hard to re-enter in the city life.
> I have to correct the 'over 64bytes reply' bug on libspopc. -- done Ok, libspopc is now 0.4, works with verbose Qpopper servers. Actually, i need more testers...

I think, goingware's post, and moreover, bytesplit's hopes reveals me that many enterprises have a disease. Young developpers, as me or bytesplit, are considered by commercial people as experts in developping what is "in-the-mood", with "in-the-mood" tool. Commercials brings some of us on the top of the wave, such that we lost the objective judgement of our technical value.

Two days ago, a commercial told me "Well, do you consider you as being expert in php ?" Unfortunately, i didn't have the intelligence to reply him "First, being expert is not bound to the programming language, and second, I met a real expert, he is 60 year old, and thinking about being an expert didn't made him an expert. His long and silent work made him an expert." I saw that this commercial man faced to me didn't want a real good developper, he wanted a "white teeth'n'persuasive" animal to help him to `charm` his clients. I'm sad. I'm really sad. All the difficulty for young developpers is to stay ourselves ( i.e apprentices, i guess) without to be considered through the "whiteness of our teeth". I's hard to be both fair and not discredited. It's easy to be authoritative and never doubt. However, to be scientific is to doubt.