I’m sure that, after writing this rant, I’ll be caught out next post. Still, I try my best.

Over the past month I’ve been revising for exams. Whilst reading, I’ve noticed a tendency to be liberal in applying the humble apostrophe to plurals.

The worst culprits are the subjects for which there are many acronyms and abbreviations. This seems to be a veritable minefield. There are innumerable CA’s, GP’s, GA’s, TSS’s and many other examples.

Reading about plans to create private email by various companies to combat so-called phishing scams has piqued my interest: surely there must be a better way to do this than to have an email account for each service that you use? Especially if you have to visit a website to read this email; it’s as if we had to go to the local bank to collect our mail from it!

I have a feeling that the girl who lives in the room below me uses her music as an alarm clock; it seems to come on at nine o’clock each morning. I may have to go downstairs to request that she turns it down a little — so it stops also being my alarm clock.

I knocked out a quick Bluefunk webpage: http://bluefunk.sf.net. It’s quite nice, though the background blue colour is a little funky.

The main problem that is preventing a 0.1 release is that the Gst-sharp bindings as of current SVN appear to be broken and not compiling. This is rather a major problem for a music player. It might be something to do with gtk-sharp 1.9.1 as the compilation dies with a GLib bindings error. The bindings appear not to have been updated for a while, at least on the tree I’m pulling from.

I’ve been playing with GNU Autotools tonight; the stuff that makes it easy to compile software by allowing you to follow the./configure, make, make install routine.

Playing is perhaps not the right word. Struggling would be a better one. The tools are not exactly what one would call intuitive. They do some very clever stuff, however, so the difficulty in using them can be forgiven. I have a feeling that once you’ve done a couple of programs, whilst you won’t understand what is going on, you at least know how to get the thing working without too much trouble.