Barry Skidmore had the same problem I am having: XML::Parser refuses to install even though I have successfully installed expat in the vanilla locations. Wonder if he ever got anywhere with the problem.

Not by October 2004, looks like.

I actually had found this before the first link but don’t think this is the same issue.

curiously, “locate expat” does not reveal the /usr/local/* files that were actually installed, although it sees an install (of php) in /usr/local/ just fine.

This is true even after globally setting PATH to explicitly include /usr/local/ etc.

Perhaps a restart is in order.

It does appear that we are not alone.

For completeness’ sake, here is the error that is thrown when ecto tries to access the xmlrpc:

And here’s the piece of SOAP:Lite that is throwing the error:

The all-night quorum of the Tipple Congress produced many pleasant results, such as this impressive architectural wonder and short-lived public work.

During the Mexican-American War of the 1840s, a battalion of Irish emigrants to North America fought on the Mexican side of the war. They are known, and remembered in Mexico, as Los San Patricios (30-second RA sample of The Fenians’ “The San Patricios”).

Despite an obscure movie, a documentary, and another song or two (Why are all these songs by Irish-American bands? Why no mariachi bands or full-on traditional numbers?), the Patricios are little known in the U.S. This might well be due to the fact that many of the Irish fighting with the Mexicans were deserters from the U.S. military. I find it interesting that the San Patricios are credited wih having played a key role in the defense of Monterrey, one of the two Mexican citites where I spent significant time as a child.

I stumbled across this site years ago while in the Bare Knuckle Boxers. We played a tune called “The Gallowglass,” which years later I learned was an Hibernian Anglicization of a Scots Gaelic word, “Gall Oglaighs,” which was applied as a class to Scots fighters, of Viking heritage, who came to Ireland to fight as mercenaries but became a recognized element of Irish society.

May I suggest you listen to our version of the tune and think, for a moment, about the role of war and violence in Irish history. Then, shake it off and hoist a few.

Zquake, zdoomz, and zhexen.

Quake, Doom, and Hexen.

For Palm OS 5. Ported by Yohann Magnien. Found via PDArcade.

This amuses me by making me wonder if Marathon might ever be Palm ported.

A forum poster at Agoraquest notes that the STR-DE597 only supports active subwoofers. As the receiver/amplifier is built for multi-channel setups, this also explains the profoundly tinny sound we have through our 1970’s homemade PA speakers. To think I once put a cherry-cabinet all-tube Fisher into the trash.

This forum posting, “TreoCentral.com – Gmail DOES work with Versamail…here’s how,” details the settings necessary to utilize Versamail to access one’s Gmail account via POP.

Unfortunately, since you must leave “leave on server” set in order to preserve the state of the gmail account for browser access, it’s nearly impossible to use effectively; when you delete old messages, the application re-downloads them.

Dan once pointed out the City of Seattle real time emergency dispatch list. I’ve found myself rooting around his site for it more than once of late as sirens spiraled off into the night. Early this evening there was a long-repeating distant lowing noise, the sort I associate with air-horns for air-raids and tornado alerts. It was to the north and west of here. It repeated an insistent pattern for several minutes, nearly inspiring me to leave the couch.

A few minutes later, as bellowing firetrucks barrelled through the intersection, the shaking of my house inspired me to the action of linking to that list. In future when idly curious about events of human disaster, I can consult my own site archives rather than Dan’s.

Moments later, another siren. “Motor Vehicle Accident,” I read, as the police car roughly shouldered through the crowd of gawking SUVs and Smarte Cars, rubber whip antenna flailing authoritatively. “10th Av E / E Roanoke St.”

I fell back against the cushions. My work for the night was done.

iPodder, the cross-platform Podcast receiver.

This may prove useful to learn non-iTunes podcast reception management.

Of course, my ideal would be just to use iTunes and hack something that will place the ‘casts onto the Treo at sync (just like this, but for a Missing-Sync-using Mac user). Perhaps Palmcasting has a lead. Hm, that article cites Pocket Tunes again, is windows-oriented, and relies on being able to drag-and-drop playlists into the sync window, something that Palm’s ‘add to handheld’ tool explicitly disallows.

I also came across AeroPlayer, which looks interesting as well.

Oh, I seem to have overlooked a feature of the Missing Sync toolkit. When the Treo is mounted as a drive to the Mac desktop using the Palm-based “Missing Sync” drive mounter, you can copy tunes (and playlists?) to the media card of the Palm from within iTunes via in-window drag-and-drops. That plus smart playlists for podcasts equals a possibility of accomplishing my goal.

How scriptable this is remains to be seen. Seems like someone must have scripted an ‘if volume mounted’applecsript for iTunes. Clearly. this is also the sort of monkeyshines that watched folders were designed for.

I may delete Busker after poking at it briefly. It is clearly designed to emulate much of iTunes’ functionality, but since the program is so solidly aimed at a Wintel audience I found the design and featureset implementation unappealing. I actually prefer parts of the portable RealPlayer UI, but that app clearly has trouble dealing with a volatile, multivalent mediabase and has already failed to play media from playlists I built with the application from local media on the card.

But enough palm futzing for the day. There’s writing to be done!

Leisure Town is back. That is all.

You may wish to take a day off work. Having some cheap scotch handy is advised.

The indispensible Cartoonist digs up Hoboken’s The Feelies, and also audio.

Man, I have tons of non-blog writing to do, and I am dawdling up a storm.