K2 0.9
Update 23 August 2006: I’m back to K2 Beta Two, since 0.9 was messing up the formatting of static pages by putting
tags around them. Here’s hoping the next version won’t include problems I don’t know how to fix.
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Tonight I updated this site’s theme to the latest beta of the wonderful K2 blogging platform. I’ve managed to keep the page layout mostly the same, but the body text style isn’t quite the same. I hope to get it back to the way it was in the next few days, but without EditCSS working in the Firefox 2.0 Beta I use, what am I to do? Though I don’t know that much about CSS, I’ll just have to dive into the stylesheets with an editor and switch things around until I get it right.
MacOS 10.5 (Leopard) Preview
I had a brief look at the Leopard preview material on Apple’s website this morning before work (Jobs’ WWDC 2006 keynote started around 3am Australian time), and was disappointed. Time Machine looks gimmicky (and, as someone who already has an automatic back-up mechanism, is not the sort of thing I need), though Apple’s long-overdue multiple-desktop feature, Spaces looks intuitive and useful, a good replacement for Desktop Manager and Virtue, which I expect it to kill off. Otherwise, the major updates were updates to apps like Mail, and iChat, which I don’t and won’t use because there are open-source alternatives.
In the keynote video, which I got to watch tonight, Jobs promises that there’s “top secret” stuff in Leopard which they don’t want to reveal too soon. When we’ll start to see these, I don’t know. Leopard is due in May 2007, and if Vista appears before then, I expect Apple will show its trumps to the media soon after. But they’d better be good. Improvements to Spotlight are in the works, and with Google Desktop and Beagle around, they need to be. Nautilus on GNOME is already a far more capable file-manager than the anemic Finder, and it’ll be more so by May. If we don’t see serious improvements in MacOS’s usability in Leopard, top-flight Linux distributions like Ubuntu will probably eclipse MacOS as the most useable desktop OS by the time 10.6 comes around. That’s a healthy thing: free and open-source is the future of software, and a usability victory over OSX would be a great achievement. I’m thinking of switching. Apple, you’d better make Leopard a revolution, because it could be your last chance to keep me on the platform, and I won’t be the only one to go if you don’t…
eCensus
In Australia, tonight is census night. I’m filling out my form online using eCensus. Unlike the appalling eTax package Australians can use for their tax returns, eCensus is browser-based (and thus multiplatform), and intuitive. Do the census, everyone! It’s important to be represented in the statistics, and privacy is so last century. Really.
Where, you say?
Whereis thinks Melbourne’s Chinatown is on Little Collins Street. It’s not.
As anyone who lives here, or has a copy of a half-decent map of the city, will know, Chinatown is in fact on Little Bourke Street.
Big Deck
Thanks to Tim for this one. I don’t usually post such random stuff, but this had me laughing hard…