voyager.tzn

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.