GMailTeX composition works better for that, since it has an automatically updating WYSIWYG version of what you’re writing below the edit window; but given gmail changed it’s CSS enough to break it within 24 hours of my trying to use it, I’m left a bit unimpressed…

That said, it is rather fascinating watching them render in the browser when viewed on your blog.

$$e^{i \pi} + 1 = 0$$

YQL: http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/
“an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services”

Yubnub: http://www.yubnub.org/
“a command line for the web”

I agree somewhere between “search shortcuts on steroids” and “AI-complete assistant” there is a do-able and useful command-line-like service for the web that would be invaluable.

If you are interested see:
http://monkeyiq.blogspot.com/2010/05/plasma-libferris-dataengine.html
And if you can get Linux Format:
http://monkeyiq.blogspot.com/2010/05/libferris-and-flickr-vimeo-facebook-etc.html

If we had a regulatory system that could force the mining companies to clean up their mess (maybe take a few billion dollars in escrow against the cleanup costs and make them get a Lloyds insurance policy against any cleanup expenses greater than that) then I would be happy to let them keep doing it.

But with the current situation it’s probably best to just tax the mining companies until they shut down.

My main complaint is not really something the review could fix, since it’s embedded in the constitution – the commonwealth government is getting all the tax income that’s then transferred to the states for their constitutional responsibilities.

I think you might like the Stubborn Mule:

http://www.stubbornmule.net/

Cheers,
Erik

happy coding ;)

sudo obexftp -u 1 -c e:/directory/name/ -p filename …

The command above is for cable. A slight variation will go over bluetooth, but don’t I recommend that. The Symbian Bluetooth stack is rock solid, but the kernel’s bluetooth stack will die after a few transfers, and the only fix is a reboot.

The next useful thing is python script shell, which gives you a python prompt. It is included in the pys60 package. It allows you to run the debugger and do just about everything else you can do from within python on a normal linux box. In particular, you can send new versions of your .py files using the command above, and run then without exiting the interpreter, and you can print trace to sys.stdout. Speeds up development no end.

Cool though that may be, it is rather painful if you have to interact with the script shell using the phones keyboard. But you don’t have to. Instead you can redirect the phones python command prompt to go over a Bluetooth tty. Just pair the phone with your debian computer (something you only need do one), run this shell script:

rfcomm=/dev/rfcomm2
temp=”/tmp/${0##*/}-$$.tmp”

hciconfig reset
sdptool add –channel=”${rfcomm##*m}” SP
sudo rfcomm listen “${rfcomm#/dev/}” “${rfcomm##*m}” &
trap ‘rm -f “${temp}”; [ -z "${rfcomm_pid}" ] || sudo kill ${rfcomm_pid} 2>/dev/null’ 0 1 2 15
rfcomm_pid=$!
while [ ! -c "${rfcomm}" ]
do
sleep 1 || exit $?
done
cu -l “${rfcomm}”
rfcomm_pid=

Then ask the python script shell to open a command prompt over bluetooth. You end up with a development environment on the phone that isn’t too different to the one on Linux. The bugs in the Linux bluetooth stack don’t get a chance top bite because you don’t start and stop bluetooth connections that often.

You can do some cool things from Python, as it has total access to the phone. For example, I managed buy a Bluetooth to USB printer adaptor, and then print stuff using a python prog on my phone. You can send and receive SMS’s, make phone calls, find the current location using GPS, make network connections over wireless, take pictures, send them, record sounds. Modern phones actually have more useful IO peripherals in them than a modern PC.

If you want to use time.mktime() avoid the latest version of Ps60 (1.9.7). Calling mktime() in the crashes the interpreter. 1.9.6 works fine though.

Finally, although Nokia’s future road map is a mess, it is a well planned mess. It goes like this. (a) Port QT to Symbian and Maemo. (b) Rewrite every app to use the API provided by QT. (c) Symbian and Maemo then converge because they run the same apps. (d) World domination. (e) Profit. I am hoping they get to (e) before being wiped out by Google and Apple.

I’d agree on the importance of contacting the liberal members. I think they have internal forces for and against a filter.