Finally installed biber in TeX Live, that is, the precompiled binaries made by the authors (with Par::Packer, which I hadn't known about before; very cool). We'll see how many other TL builders want to try ...
In order to do the equivalent of "git pull --dry-run" (which doesn't exist as such) --
git fetch git diff master origin/master
(From Jim Meyering, thanks Jim. He admits "There's probably a much easier way".)
Belatedly learned that Randy Kobes passed away last September. Apparently the university is keeping his machine up, since the CTAN and GNU redirectors have been cruising happily along. Started reimplementing them elsewhere now, though ...
Discovered that the Texinfo command summary and reference card had been missing about a half-dozen commands for years. Amazing what automated checks against the actual implementation can turn up. Now if only we could get it together to do the same for the xetex, pdftex, latex manuals ...
Edited an article by Andrew Hwang (thanks Andy!) for the next TUGboat about use of LaTeX at Distributed Proofreaders (for Project Gutenberg). Neat. I tried to get involved with this a few years ago; happily, looks like the infrastructure has developed considerably since then.
Made TUGboat 30:3, the EuroTeX'09 proceedings, publicly available online, the year having duly passed. Printed copies are available through the TUG store.
Rebuilt and updated the online glibc manual for the latest release (2.13). Hope it still works.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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