A carnival of technology

You may notice some new links along the side of the page, the galleries. I found a nanoblogger gallery plugin, so I took another step towards moving the entire site into the blog. Coincidentally, I also stumbled across the first few photos I took with my camera that I thought I had lost, my favorites being the Port City Java set and the pictures of the Jesus Van I saw in Cullman. I modified the plugin to create the subdirectories and individual pages for images, so maybe at some point I’ll try to clean up the changes I made and give them back to the author to see what he thinks. I’ll keep the old photos browser the way it is for a while, mainly because I’m too lazy to do anything about it yet, but eventually it will point to the new galleries.

I guess the next blog thing I should do is fix the broke-ass comments system. That sounds harder, so that’s still at the bottom of the to-do list.

Since I haven’t posted anything of substance in the past week or so, here’s a quick summary of what’s been going on.

• I fell off my bike. I took a turn too fast and got in a fight with the
  ground. I went to the emergency room since I couldn’t move my right arm
  very well, but my shoulder wasn’t broken. I got a tetanus shot and some
  pills (which I think were just Aleve) out of it, though, so I won’t regret
  the visit until I get the bill. I’ll probably have a red spot on my elbow
  for a few years where I slid across the pavement.
• I bought a new bicycle helmet, replacing that one that looks like half
  of a giant ping-pong ball. I got a blue one. My big fat head is apparently
  at the upper limits of “large.”
• Sandy Springs apparently has concerts at the historic site on the first
  Sunday of the month, and I attended one played by
  Keltic Kudzu. The pipes were
  neat, but I think I would have liked the rest of the show better if it had
  happened in a bar.
• Speaking of bars, I’ll have to remember to bring my own open container
  violations if I go to another of those concerts. It seemed to be a pretty
  popular thing to do.
• This week was really freaking hot.

I think that’s about it.

I found a bug in svnacl caused by some weird behavior in svn. It turns out that if if you modify the properies on a subdirectoy and merge it in from a branch, the action for the subdirectory will be “replace” even if its parent directory had an action of “add.” I think that’s kind of unintuitive, so the new version treats these directories (and possibly files, I guess) as adds both for the sake of making my property comparisons work and for the access check.