This is true also for things like 'reading the writing on the wall' type comments on open source mailoing lists.

Yet today, although Neanderthals and Homo erectus are widely known, Boskops are almost entirely forgotten. Some of our ancestors are clearly inferior to us, with smaller brains and apelike countenances. They’re easy to make fun of and easy to accept as our precursors. In contrast, the very fact of an ancient ancestor like Boskop, who appears un-apelike and in fact in most ways seems to have had characteristics superior to ours, was destined never to be popular.

Well, what a lovely story. Only it's all based on 1920's era archology:

Return of the "amazing" Boskops | john hawks weblog

It's worse than I feared. The excerpt actually presents 1920's-era anthropology as if it were the state of our knowledge about Boskop and the "Boskop race" today. I have not found any passages in the book or chapter notes that contradict the excerpt's portrayal. I cannot find references or citations of post-1940 research on skeletal remains or archaeology from southern Africa. There's no hint of what happened after archaeologists began to use radiocarbon dating, nor do we hear even the identity of any specimens, except for the original (and fragmented) Boskop skull itself.

How can this be?

Oh, and for those who didn't get my title for this post: Boskoop is my fav kind of apple.

Judging from this first test export of my unchanged weblog Tbx file, everything seems to still work - only faster. Nice :)

I'd like to add to this... that Recycling of old things is also a very useful concept. But recycling, too, is about 'clearing out' and 'cleaning up'... And NOT about keeping old, useless, broken things around, NOT about keeping a status quo intact... but all about transformation.

Anyways: there are some very interesting and also useful Virtual World related aoftware projects out there, and all of them tend to be based on Mono... so naturally I had to get Mono for Mac, and also try and compile and run these apps on me Mac, yeah? (Mono actualy promises cross platform compile once, run anywhere even fpr GUI stuff)

Running Mono apps on Mac OS X is simple enought these days, although often you wil need to start them via the Terminal ($ mono ThisApp.exe)

What you need is simply the Mono Framework installed:

+ dowbload and install Mono on Mac

This already gives you almost all you would need to even compile apps from source, but some projects use extra stuff that isn't included in the above Framework anymore (it used to be up to version 1.9 or so, which is why a lot of setup instructions still recommend getting that older version of Mono)

While I was trying to get OpenSim and libOpenMetaverse cmpiled natively on my Mac, I ran into that issue and it almost stopped me short. It seemed like I had everything O needed, but 'pkg-config' was throwing weird errors and not being verx helpful at all...

Googling around and reading a ton of Foum posts didn't really help much, but tere always seemed mention of the 'mono developer package' but never was there any link as to where and what this was. And remember, I am not into Fink or darwonprots here, I am taking straight Mac OS X Framework installs.

To cut a long chase short: turns out mono.ximian.com makes the Mono Framework available as two parts: Mone itself and also the so called CSDK part. Once I got the latter and installed it additionally all went very smoothly indeed.

• Mono SDK and CSDK on ximian
• The above links was the current one as of this writing, but you may want to also try from this link to get the newest: http://mono.ximian.com/monobuild/preview/archive/
• What you are really looking for here is the DMG called something like MonoFramework-CSDK-2.4.2.2_0.macos10.novell.x86.dmg with the nimber matching the version of Mono you have... you could also download the base Mono Framework here actually

So with all this said, happy compiling of OpenSim and libOpenMetaverse or any other thing you always had to switch on your noisy PC and deal with Windows for ^

The Boy and the Black Unicorn

A long time ago on a peaveful island in the void lived a community much like the one on Perfect Paradise. It was commited to self discovery, spiritual awareness and peace.

One this island lived many idividuals of the most diverse description, and amog them was a Black Unicorn. A Black Unicorn, much like the White cousin is a creature of Peace. But unlike the White cousin, who is a warrior and stalwart protector, the Black Univorn is patient, tolerant and unjudging.

No big wonder then that the local prat, a n imoush Boy who just plain loved to be a pest, loved the Black Unicorn's company. While it's unlikey that the two ever had a very meaningful conversation, they did spend a lot of time together.

One day, while they were walking on the beach, the Boy found a stick and out of one of his whims started beating the Black Unicorn and yelling "Move Donkey, MOVE you fat ass!" In it's endless patienece, the Black Unicorn simply ignored the game and kept on walking in peace as if nothing unusual was happening. The Boy, not geting the reaction he craved, went on yelling and beating, becoming ever more abusive towards his friend.

The Black Unicorn simply ignored him and walked on.

At some point the Boy lost interest, seeing that his game was not having the desired effect, and went back to normal conversation.

The Black Unicorn ignored him, and went on.

The Boy was suprised at this, not being used to being ignored by his friend the Balck Unicorn, He started asking, the pleading for attention.

The Black Unicorn just ignired him and went on in it's path as if the Boy wasn't there.

Later that evening, when the community gathered around the communal fire, the Balck Unicorn among them, the boy sheepishly joined the group.

At that moment the Black Unicorn spke to it's friend the Boy again:

"Boy, do you know what the difference between a dog and an uicorn is?"

Many of the group laughed, expecting a trick question.

The Boy said: "The size of their arse?" in his typical prattish ways.

The Black Unicorn answered after a qhile:

"You beat a dog, he bites you. You beat a Black Unicorn, it will simply ignore you. So, if you want to be friends with the Black Unicorn..." A pause for emphasis "YOU CUT THE CRAP!"

Yes, my friends, this is all true and has all taken place. The lesson? Living patience and tolerance by no means mean you should take crap, not even from friends and loved ones.

(pawprint)

taken from Coyote's Tall Tails

I could fret, I could panic, run to the next internet cafe to get my dosis of conectivity... hell I could just plain ask my neigbours if I could piggyback on their WLAN!

But... I've learned to take these techical mishaps as opportunities for reflection. Anyway, it's not like I can do much, or have to, to get the net back NOW. The replacement router will be here any minute now, and I used the 'freedom' from the net to do some other forms of social connectivity, using the bloody PHONE among other things.

What is intriguing me the most about this current - limited - outage is it's timing. Just the night before had me expressing - quite suprisingyly - quite romantic thoughts and feelings. In a situation where no one has any idea of how it may develop or where we even want it to go. And, you guessed it, working net connectivity is absolute key for this particular social connection.

So, the morning I crawled out of bed wondering "Now what?" I find myself cut off, forced entierely into my on mindspace, with almost no path of action in that regard.

Besides, it was my birthday too, and lovely people had organized a party for me in Second Life... which I also had no way to attend now.

I have no idea if this is all just connected in my head, the mind making sense of coincidences... but to me there is one lesson/reason in this outage: take a step back and reflect.

I have found a certainty of sorts. I say 'of sorts' because it is not based on any facts or deep analysis. It's also not about grand decisions. But it IS about knowing what I feel. In the big wash of emotions we experience when we are in the presence of the other... what you might calls 'being in love' can be very intense, but can also be very fueled by the here and now, by the situational roles we take on. Being forced to take a step back with not much other to distract the mind... helps listen inside. What is there, when she is not present?

I got closer to answering this question for me... and the rest is "we will see" as always.

For one, I now do all my 'how I am doing' kind of posts over at Twitter... and for the other I really didn't feel like saying much of any length that required a real blog post. Well that's not entirely true, but what I would have eanted to say here... would have been too personal for a detailed public version anyway. O like the cryptic shortness of Twitter for that. I allows you to posts status updates that only those who know you and have the context can really understand.

So anyway, Tinderbox 4.6.1 it is now. And frankly I am suprised at the fact that all this website's Tb agents etc seem to work just fine, as before. (Tb 4.6 changed a lot of the Agent syntax and cleaned out a lot of old stuff, so I was afraid the transition would take a ton of tweaks.)

The only real onvious transition glitch so far was one that seem to have to do with default fint sizes: When you increase the font size of a paragraph in a Tb note, it will be marked as a h3 Heading. Now my default font for all my documents is 18 points (yes, BIG)... and for some reason all my pages redered in all bold and big. THe fix? In Documents Preerences set the default font size BACK to 18 points... it had been changed to 16 for some reason so ALL text was 'enlarged' ... Actually I am in no way sire this is at ALL due to the Tb update... it could well be due to collaboration with someone who may have set the fint size differently...