Not to keep people in too much suspense, the missing glyphs are J, U, W, and w. nomis came closest, and I tend to agree - the U could stand a little improvement.
In any case, it's deeply satisfying to hack on this font.
Singapore Math
Heather got the Singapore Math workbooks for Alan, on the recommendation of several other parents of gifted children. Well, for whatever reason, he loves them. This evening, he used wanting to do more Singapore Math as an excuse for pushing back his bedtime. I felt I was in one of those cheesy infomercials.
GPL viols
Now I've experienced firsthand the unpleasant, but all too common, practice of repackaging free software as Win32 shareware. This might even be legal if it were done with some care, but apparently the culture of scam artistry is too deeply ingrained for people to even try.
Yes, it pisses me off.
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The recent thread on "what makes a powerful programming language" was one of the dumbest ever. Characteristically, the dumber the article, the more response. This phenomenon isn't unique to Slashdot, of course, but they do seem to choose this path fairly often, or else be awfully sloppy. (and what's the difference, really?)
Of course, everybody still reads Slashdot. One of these days, I'm going to get around to tweaking Advogato to try to encourage many more people to post news articles. Maybe there is hope for a reasonable alternative.
CodeCon
It looks fun, but I'm not sure I'll have time to attend. It is disappointing that the Chord guys don't seem to be represented. That's without question one of the most interesting things happening in that space.