http://radio.weblogs.com/0100438/ will leshner's cave wall scratchings en-us Copyright 2002 Will Leshner Tue, 21 May 2002 05:22:31 GMT http://backend.userland.com/rss092 will@amianduri.com will@amianduri.com a test I'm trying to install Bundle::XML on my Mac OS X machine. That's a <a href="http://cpan.org">Perl</a> module, by the way. Turns out there's some tricky stuff to it. First, Mac OS X doesn't have <a href="http://www.jclark.com/xml/expat.html">expat</a> installed. That is, the expat libraries in /usr/local/include (or wherever they may go) that stuff links to when building. XML::Parser.pm, which is something Bundle::XML needs, depends on expat. But expat itself doesn't build correctly out of the box on Mac OS X because it wants to build as a static library and <a href="http://apple.com">Apple</a> discourages static libraries on Mac OS X. And even when you get expat built, there's tricky stuff with XML::Parser.pm on OS X as well. <a href="http://david.wheeler.net/osx.html">David Wheeler</a> explains the tricks and thanks to him I got everthing built. Well, I think I did. I haven't actually tested it yet. it was iyami :( On several occasions over the past several months I have claimed that we were planning a trip. The problem is that every time it was to somplace different. I have variously claimed that we were going to drive across the US (<a href="http://radio.weblogs.com/0100438/categories/roadtripUsa/">Roadtrip USA</a>), drive to Sedona, and even fly to Japan. We haven't taken any of those trips. And it's likely we won't in the near future. But now we have a new plan. A trip to Toronto. We'd fly, of course. And once there we could tool around <a href="http://www.city.toronto.on.ca/">Toronto</a> and even take a detour to <a href="http://www.fallsview.com/Stream/WideStill.shtml">Niagra Falls</a>, which is less than 100 miles away. I wonder if we'll make this trip? I use the computer too much at home. I'd like to blame the <a href="http://www.apple.com/airport/">Airport</a>. It allows me to access the Internet from anywhere. Even the bathroom :) So I'm basically "always on". I think my wife is bored to tears by it. She has her own computer and she spends a good deal of time on-line as well. Maybe as much as me. But I think that may be because there's nothing else to do. I'm on the computer so she gets on the computer as well. We sit side-by-side, each on our separate computers. But there is one difference. I can't concentrate on anything while I'm computing. If my wife asks me a question I try to answer, but my brain is really off somewhere else. My wife doesn't have that problem. She can break her concentration on a dime, so to speak. And then go right back to what she's doing. So tonight I'm going to try an experiment. No computer. I've got stuff I want to do on the computer, but, then, I've always got stuff I want to do on the computer. It can wait. I might even get to bed at a descent time for a change.