Well, it turns out DoubleCommand also has an annoying bug where sometimes the capslock key can turn sticky. I wrote a script that works around it (effectively, unload and reload the kext) but it's annoying to have to periodically do that.

I've replaced uControl with DoubleCommand, because although uControl is superior in every aspect of user-interface, DoubleCommand actually works.

Also, YaXJournal is cool, but damn does it have the ugliest icon I've ever seen.

I managed to avoid getting sick for a week of living on Canal St. in NYC, then a week of living in a house full of my siblings who are all sick (including my hygenically careless 2-year-old brother).

Of course, my luck would run out once I am safely ensconced in my near antiseptic apartment, miles and miles away from anyone who might infect me (and equally distant from anyone who could bring me chicken soup).

It was a good sick, though, as such things go. I was dizzy, disoriented, and my 18-hour nap was fitful and full of surreal images and vivid auditory hallucinations. I particularly liked the dream where I was attending the Simon Belmont VII Memorial Institute for Extraterrestrial Hunter/Killer Studies, hanging upside down by my anti-gravity boots and using a glowing blunderbuss with ammunition reminiscent of tylenol gel capsules to ring a huge church bell to signal the start of class.

I'm hacking away on my mac laptop, actually happy with the tools I'm using (mostly) for the first time in a good long while. The tools that finally made this possible:

• Mindlube Emacs
• uControl (now working with Panther)
• X-Chat Aqua
• Mac Python (now properly bundled by Apple)
• iJournal (what I'm making this posting with

IT'S OUT. Get it, it's the best one yet.

Quotient 0.7.0

We're making really good progress now, but we have GOT to stop these midnight releases.