Timmy: Digest Edition

The big news is that I’m leaving tomorrow, and will be gone until July 18th. Thanks to the wonders of Akismet, blog maintenance hasn’t been a problem recedntly: hopefully it won’t become one.

In other news, I’ve been having an epic struggle with the Thinkpad. Ubuntu and CrunchBang are way too slow. SliTaz and USE won’t recognize my wired network card. Arch flatly refused to make X cooperate, although I’m wondering if that wasn’t a human-based error…I might try that again once I get back. And currently it has Ubuntu GTK 1.2 Remix, which does recognize the network card, and let me very easily install Wine–let there be much LANing.

I’ve also been plugging away at Twirminal, a terminal-based Twitter client written in Python with curses. It’s looking kind of promising–if it enters Alpha, I’ll either make a Subversion branch here, or else just host it on Launchpad. And even if it doesn’t work, it’s very nice to be writing in Python, not Java. My brain is smiling.