raph: i am writing a metro parser! but you already knew that ;) if anybody has the new longhorn beta or some other means of acquiring metro test files, please contact me.

the mupdf firefox plugin is actually quite nice. get it here. now i just need some time and invest some effort into the linux port. my main problem is where to find a good scrollbar. i can draw my own (ick!), i can swallow gtk+ (double ick!), but i can not access firefox's own (infinite ick!).

more ickiness: i cannot send keyboard events that are uninteresting back to firefox. so all the standard menu and keyboard shortcuts are dead. stone dead. so stupid!

this is what happens when you stay at raph's.

woohoo! a tired drunken solar eclipse on the roof at dawn.

Just saw that some of the most interesting bits of plan9 have been ported to Unix under a BSD license. Most notably, sane printf and regexp functions that work with utf8. Happy happy joy joy!

http://www.pdos.lcs.mit.edu/~rsc/software/

Now all that's needed is a bullet through the POSIX header mess. I don't want to need to use autoconf/automake just to know what headers I need to get the basic libc functions. I just want to write...

#include <libc.h>

...and everything should just work. One header per library. No headers including other headers. No stupid inclusion guards. Okay?

28 days later. watch it.