RoutePlanner
hit 0.3 today; in about a week of real hacking it has now
surpassed what seemed to take years in C on AmigaOS. Rapid
prototyping r00lz
:p Those of you who don't want
everything in the universe installed on your systems should
check out this release; it'll work (albeit slower) without
the kitchen sink; hell, it'll even run on
JPython, if you
uncompress the database first (no zlib in JPy). (I tested it
and
nearly keeled over when all I had to do was bypass
import timing.) And nothing runs on JPython
:-). Maybe it'll even run on Win32 and MacOS. All
it needs for the tty version is barebones Python, and you
need that for
reportbug
anyway.
In the real world, I TiVo'd
Nuremberg
and thought it was interesting; then I watched the History
Channel documentary (which I think was probably a BBC
documentary at some point) and felt cheated by the
miniseries. IMHO the whole production glossed over the
USSR's complicity in WWII, and Goering gets sympathy from
one of the guards (some Southern lieutenant named "Tex") by
Commie-baiting (I guess since Goering was vehemenantly
anti-Communist, that means that all anti-Communists are bad
or something). OTOH Jackson was the only justice of the
time to have the balls to stand up for free speech (and was
IIRC a dissenter in the Japanese internment cases), and that
didn't get played up either. A lot of the time I felt like
I was getting lectured to (us Americans and our lack of
historical perspective, nach). Overall, maybe I'm
reading too much into the show ;-). And at least
Alec Baldwin's chest toupee didn't make an appearance.
Nothing much else of excitement to report. Being unemployed
(until August 21, when I get to teach Introduction to
American National Government to impressionable
undergrads) has its perks...