Swapping CapsLock with Escape, at least in Linux, is a requirement for me, starting today. This guy shows you how. No more moving away from home row in VIm.
Compiz Fusion is a great improvement over Beryl, largely because C-F doesn’t crash my Xserver twice a day the way Beryl did. I’ve had maybe 2 X crashes total since my upgrade 1-2 months ago.
At what point did we (the USA) move from the way the Constitution says President and Vice President should be selected (Guy with the most votes is President, guy with the second most votes is Vice President) to having running mates, so you vote for a pair of candidates, instead of individuals?
I’ve been reading through Head First Design Patterns. Very interesting stuff – finding out how much I don’t know about programming. At least that’ll change from the reading. 
Abandoned open-source projects – especially those sponsored by a commercial company (such as XIFF, sponsored by Jive Software) greatly irk me.
On abandoned open source projects… I think it’s OK and to be expected. Think of it this way. When a commercial software package is abandoned, what are your options? At least with an open source package you have options. If XIFF is something some developers feel is worth continuing, I’m sure it’ll happen. Otherwise, it dies and that’s OK too.
Actually, XIFF isn’t abandoned at all. A small bit of history around the project might help though. It was originally authored by Sean Voisen. When he no longer had time to maintain the library full-time, we volunteered to host the project at Ignite. Several other community members than did work on the library as a new version. It’s actually only very recently that we (Jive Software) have begun working on XIFF. For more details about why, see a blog entry I did about our client strategy.
In any case, I’m not sure when the next XIFF release will be out, but it’s definitely not dead.
At the time I was actively using XIFF, there was a complete lack of activity in the forums (most posts went unanswered), a lack of responses to email requests for support, and no references (except for 1 or 2 forum posts) to the AS3-compatible version of XIFF. I had to guess at a Subversion url to use to get it.
In any case, the idea that you will be producing an Air-based client gives me new hope that I spoke prematurely
I’ll keep my eye out…