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I just discoved DesignBay. It works like this: I want a some graphic design work done. I submit a "Design Contest", paying USD30 and providing a design brief and a budget. Designers respond to this, submitting proposals. If I find something I like, I choose one hand over the cash. Or not... and all I lose is USD30.

The following is part of my home-grown compilation environment in emacs.

Looks like there is a new marketing campaign for Django. I wonder what the target demographic is...

Recent versions Emacs has built in xml support, and there are libraries available that give you DOM and even XPath capabilities. I've started experimenting with it as I want to process Eclipse Workspaces. Ideally, I should be using XPath, but that has too many dependencies for now (it depends on parts of Semantic). So, using the xml-parse examples on EmacsWiki.org, here is some simple code to get a the "userid" attibutes from all the "to" elements of the following xml data:

I only heard about Opera Software's scheduled visit to Durban on Monday. While I couldn't attend the lectures at DUT or UKZN I made damn sure that I could attend Thursday's "informal gathering" at the Suncoast News Café. You see, I started using Opera when it was still ad-supported (and I honestly don't remember the first version number that I used). Before Firefox even existed I was using a tabbed browser with mouse gestures, cool keyboard short-cuts, colour themes, customizable everything and built-in mail client. But I digress...

If you ever accidentally pour a mug of tea on your keyboard and surrounding desk, hope that it is a Microsoft Basic keyboard. Because I did that yesterday and was very impressed with the keyboard design.

So, I'm back to trying to compile emacs-nt again, having discovered that the required W32 headers are in fact conveniently supplied by Mingw (albeit in a different package). Now I'm getting an "Unknown Processor" error. gcc -dumpmachine tells me I have an arm processor on my PC... perhaps this is the problem o_0

UPDATE: It turns out the Symbian SDK also provides a gcc, and this was in my path before the Mingw one. Hence the strange architecture.

I discovered two interesting sites listening to the latest Lullabot podcast (http://www.lullabot.com/podcast)

The first is Top Notch Themes (http://www.topnotchthemes.com/browse), which provides paid-for Drupal themes.

Themes are one area of Drupal that are not immediately obvious - more of an art than an exact science. If you have enough $$$$ you can even "buy out" a theme to get it removed from the site.

I recently started seeing a bizarre problem in Opera. I believe it only happened in Opera 9.5 but I may be wrong. I suspect it may also be linked to Irfanview. Basically, when ever I opened an image via the context menu, or clicked on a image link, a gazillion (ok, 10 - 20) tabs would open, trying to load something from the cache directory - yet still no image.

I found the solution to the problem yesterday, in the Opera Forums:

Seems like something got mixed up in your file type associations. Probably the best thing is to reset them all.