I finally have changed the layout! I also changed the way to access the Gallery. It is now embedded. Thanks to the guys at ozgreg for writing the Wordpress plugin and helping me out with some question.

Hope you enjoy it.

Boingboing has a lively discussion about the creationists against evolutionists debat in the USA. I think we here in Europe are not so aware of this whole topic, but it makes for an interesting read. In case you have no clue what I’m talking about:

The creationists say that there are a lot of holes in the evolution theory (missing links if you will). The next step in their argument goes something like this: since not everything has been completely proven for 100%, the theory of evolution must be false. They then go to argue that since the evolution theory is false in their eyes, the theory of intelligent design (god created the world) should have its place next to evolution in science classes. They even achieved this goal in some states in the US.

One of the funnier reactions to this situation is the new church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. This church demands to be the third theory to be taught in science classes.

And since one of the creationists is willing to pay $250.000 for proof of the evolution theory, boingboing and some othere blogs put up the same amount for the following:

We are willing to pay any individual *$250,000 if they can produce empirical evidence which proves that Jesus is not the son of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

For more information about the Flying Spaghetti Monster, evolution and creation, check out this link. The church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster can be found here.

It seems that I have become the maintainer of the amarok-svn.ebuild. Might as well take the responsibility for the moment, since I need the ebuild for my own good use anyways

Well a lot has changed with KDE, everyone and everything seems to prepare for KDE 4.0, which means that the 3.5 branch has become its own branch and 4.0 seems to be developed in the main branch.

Result was that the default admin directory, checked out in the ebuild, suddenly depended on unsermake and QT4.0. Not directly what you would want. I did a little bit of rewriting of the ebuild, so it will use the 3.5 branch for the admin files (with automake and autoconf).

Works for me.

Update 08/09/2005: had a small error in the ebuild. Fixed that.

Here it is.

Paul Graham has a nice article describing what companies can learn from open source technology:

Lately companies have been paying more attention to open source. Ten years ago there seemed a real danger Microsoft would extend its monopoly to servers. It seems safe to say now that open source has prevented that. A recent survey found 52% of companies are replacing Windows servers with Linux servers. [1]

More significant, I think, is which 52% they are. At this point, anyone proposing to run Windows on servers should be prepared to explain what they know about servers that Google, Yahoo, and Amazon don’t.

Link.