Hacktivity

I finished preparing a lecture about LM-Solve. Then I worked on Subversion, and formed an updated patch to Issue #1297. This took a really long time (almost an entire day), but I'm really happy that it's complete now. The fix had a small bug-let which was easy to fix by adding a few lines.

Reading

I sort of finished reading "Games, Diversions and Perl Culture", and reached to the middle of "The Art of Unix Programming"'s chapter about Mini-languages. TAOUP is a very interesting and entertaining book as is the usual tradition with esr's writings.

Perl Meetings

Gabor Szabo, who is the Israeli Perl Mongers leader is abroad, and as it turned out Shlomo Yona, who was appointed to organize the meeting instead is busy moving to a new apartment. Thus, I took the lead and decided on how to resolve the date, place, etc. issues for the next meeting.

Translucent Cursor

I wanted a Knoppix-like translucent cursor for my X-Windows. So, I asked around the IRC. Someone told me a similar effect exists in the cursor_themes package found in the Mandrake Cooker. Looking there, I found it. The cursor is darker than the Knoppix one, but still is nice in a way. The package has other interesting themes, which I may try out.