I often like to complain about Windows. As a longtime Apple programmer I can’t help it. Growing up and growing old with this industry I’ve just seen too many ripoffs perpetrated by Redmond. I think that corporations get an imprint from their founders, and that imprint, those patterns of working and behaving stay with them for a long time. Many times they persist even after the founders have long since left the scene.

Will the wonders of the world wide web ever cease? There are a lot of things about web technology that just don’t make a lot of sense. A lot of unixisms show through like a bad one-coat paint job. (And not everything about unix “makes sense” either. It’s just the way things are done. After all, the internet is a unix legacy.) What many people seem to love about the web is the way all these different technologies can work together to achieve results. My pet peeve is the way they don’t work together.

Well, the nightmare continues. I decided to try an Apache2 setup on my server. But using DarwinPorts I was unable to get subversion to build the mod_dav_svn. It wouldn’t put it into the already installed Apache2 server in /opt. I tried all the variants including building a DarwinPorts Apache2 installation. In the end, I decided to look at Fink which I haven’t tried in years.

I like to learn new things and when I started trying to change the look of my blog I realized I needed to learn CSS. Up until now I’ve viewed html and CSS as sort of a output language for tools such as Dreamweaver or GoLive. I figured if I ever was asked to write such a tool then I would learn it just as I learned Postscript once when I was writing some printing routines for a software application I was authoring. Well, I’m in the middle of learning CSS right mow.