December, 14, 2002 archives

firefly was cancelled by fox and the unfortunately named queens supreme (about new york judges) will be replacing robbery homicide division on cbs. i enjoyed firefly, but then i'm a sucker for westerns and women named jewel. oh yeah, mds is gone, too.

reading macworld (i got a free one year subscription somewhere along the way), i found mention that the new version of watson will have an upgraded stocks module that will track portfolio value. nice. i was thinking of writing my own tool to do this. (and still might, if the new stocks module isn't up to snuff. i've been itching to write a cocoa application, anyway.)

this how-to on creating a debian package. this describes the totally manual process of building a package, which is probably good background to have so you can deal with any leak abstractions that you end up using. (it also does much to deflate the myth i had built up in my head that building rpms was much easier than debian packages.)