Month: July 2005

Headmap

these days i am enjoying headmap. i would give it a SL of 1.5

The space, the social network, thinking tools and the network interface in the same field of view. The boundaries between what is interior and what is exterior intersecting tangibly in front of your eyes.

there are notes in boxes that are empty

every room has an accessible history

every place has emotional attachments you can open and save

you can search for sadness in new york

people within 1 km of each other who have never met stop what they are doing and organise spontaneously to help with some task or other.

in a strange town you knock on the door of someone you don’t know and they give you sandwiches.

paths compete to offer themselves to you

life flows into inanimate objects

the trees hum advertising jingles

everything in the world, animate and inanimate, abstract and concrete, has thoughts attached

trac rocks

spurred on by dani, i gave trac a try for a project i am working on.

Trac is an enhanced wiki and issue tracking system for software development projects. Trac uses a minimalistic approach to web-based software project management. Our mission; to help developers write great software while staying out of the way. Trac should impose as little as possible on a team’s established development process and policies.
It provides an interface to Subversion, an integrated Wiki and convenient report facilities.
Trac allows wiki markup in issue descriptions and commit messages, creating links and seamless references between bugs, tasks, changesets, files and wiki pages. A timeline shows all project events in order, making getting an overview of the project and tracking progress very easy.

i’m in love. trac beats the crap out of bugzilla (no UI to speak of), RT (UI?), jira (likes to crash your servlet engine, not free), collabnet (slooow, not free), sourceforge (very poor integration, 1997-era UI), basecamp (useless for projects with both suits and coders) and a couple others i have tested (and forgotten about over the years). while some of the competition is stronger in certain areas, none are as well-rounded and tightly integrated between bug tracking, wiki and scm, or have such a pleasant UI. trac is the kind of application that makes me want to pick up python for real to play around with it (sorry, but plone never had the same effect for me). trac will go far.

BA Spam

first, i get this email to my british airways account:

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: test email on TCRM
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 11:34:46 +0100 (BST)
From: British Airways Executive Club 
Dear Mr Rothfuss,
It's warm in here but I'm having fun
test email
Yours Sincerely
Afzal

inevitably followed by:


-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Email sent in error by British Airways
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 17:17:50 +0100 (BST)
From: British Airways Executive Club 
Dear Mr Rothfuss,
You may have received an email titled "Test email on TCRM" this afternoon, please accept my sincere apologies as this email
was sent in error whilst we were undertaking routine testing.
I would like to reassure you that we have now rectified this error.
Yours sincerely
Sarah Keyes
Loyalty Programmes Manager Europe

you gotta be more careful, afzal, even when it’s hot.