Rachmaninoff, Vespers (All-night vigil).
Sinfest. Comics drawn in a cute, yet stylish, anime style. Some are rather coarse; others feature God and/or the Devil in a variety of clever and slapstick confrontations. I’ve created three pages of links to some I particularly liked.
Boethius, The consolation of philosophy. More on this when I finish it, probably next weekend.
Lest you think that I read nothing but Patrick O’Brian while away, I also read this while staying with friends in Brisbane. This was a slightly odd combination of manual for the CVS tool (which is a great and useful tool indeed, I have to say), and a discussion of the issues involved in running an Open Source project. For example, among the latter he discusses when and how to fork a project. (This is what happened to create the two current major emacs implementations, GNU Emacs and XEmacs.) This latter material is perhaps a little touchy-feely, but it's an enjoyable read.
The material explaining CVS is very clear, and though I thought
I knew the system reasonably well, I have now have a much better
understanding of how the -j flag to cvs
update works. Further, all of the CVS material from this
book is available for free (under the GPL even) from the book’s site.
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