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I posted on the jPodder user forum some notes about my progress trying to port jPodder to Linux. Well, not yet really porting it; what I’m currently tackling is the ability to just recompile all the Java files so that I can then look at making changes to the code, recompile, and test the result. I want to find a way to make it use the interface for KDE to use juk, for example, to do the listing and playing of shows like happens with iTunes and the Windows Media Player. Via KDE’s kicker?

I’ve had a lot of luck with Alien Package Converter recently. I have Debian liboost-* packages installed on Fedora and Fedora libaio* packages installed on Debian. All seem to work well.

So I tried converting one of Sun’s Java RPM package to a .deb, it don’t work. The resulting .deb file installs fine, but none of the commands work. At least Sun put out an alternative install method, and all is working well.

In Dublin on a wall we saw the words: “Eat A Dead Gay Baby For Jesus”. After a second of shock, I couldn’t stop laughing. Just about every word is made to want to offend someone. Awesome.

A quick Google search pointed me at one description where someone had seen a similar slogan on a bumper sticker. Their page, in turn, passed me to T-Shirt Hell. Oh. My. God. I want them all.

Tee hee. Ethics, I reject thee!

NPR had a piece on Slow Food this morning. It should show up in there audio archives some time. If you are the sort of hippy eat to save the world weirdo like I am, it’s worth a listen.

I only discovered Slow Food about a month ago. It seems I was “®” crazy at the time too.

After looking at the RSS 2.0 Spec, I was able to fix wp-rss2.php so it’ll properly give attribution to the author of each post when someone gets them via a RSS aggregator like Liferea. Ahhhhhh, much better. I’ve got it doing ‘mailto’ because apparently some aggregators use that properly; Liferea actually shows it and doesn’t create a link for it. At least, not the version I’m using.

I don’t think we’ll ever see the Oscar Terror Alert Level.