Camino latest is blazingly fast, doesn't sit & spin, has no focus issues, and is very pwetty. Highly recommended.

Switching between three browsers is a bitch. Most of my bookmarks are on private 'links' page, but I didn't realize how much I depended on saved user/pass info. Ever since I settled on my iBook as my portal to, well, everything -- an 80x40 terminal window running screen, Web browser, and X server satisfy roughly 99% of my needs -- I've been letting my browser remember my login info. Now I need to have sites send the passwords to me, and in some cases they randomize 'em. Argh. In one extreme case -- my local library -- I'm going to have to go visit the library to get a new password.

C++ sweetness

Proper use of C++ sure is nice & clean. I'd still prefer the cleanliness of try/finally, but yesterday's global interpreter lock class is useful enough that it should be put somewhere for other people to find. I wonder if I could convince GvR etc. to put it in the (currently very short) writing extensions in C++ docs? I couldn't find a place in the Python cookbook for what is, technically, a C++ recipe...

Thanks to Chris Frey, Peter Hart, and Max Caceres for their help on this!

My C++ code is beginning to resembly my Python code. (It's still uglier, of course ;). By and large I can do lots of stuff in small amounts of code, and any real ugliness can be hidden in short, easily-tested functions in the implementation file.

Anyway, I'm at a 1.0rc1 release for paircomp, now that I've got error reporting working. I've also made khmer 0.2 available. It's a simple, fast k-mer counting program for whole-genome k-mer statistics. I'm always surprised at how fast you can do the simple stuff: khmer can count all 12 bp words in a 5mb genome in less than a second. Now to try it out on human (600 times larger)... ;)

--titus