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Ah.... after a freaking busy week, nothing better than a calm saturday. Let's see what our friend Webster says about it:

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

Calm Calm(k[aum]m),

1. [Compar. {Calmer} (-[~e]r); super. {Calmest} (-[e^]st)]

1. Not stormy; without motion, as of winds or waves; still; quiet; serene; undisturbed.

   ''Calm was the day.'' --Spenser.

   Now all is calm, and fresh, and still. --Bryant.

2. Undisturbed by passion or emotion; not agitated or excited; tranquil; quiet in act or speech.

   ''Calm and sinless peace.'' --Milton.

   ''With calm attention.'' --Pope.

   Such calm old age as conscience pure And self-commanding hearts ensure. --Keble.

Syn: Still; quiet; undisturbed; tranquil; peaceful; serene; composed; unruffled; sedate; collected; placid.

So, whoever was Spenser, he is right: Calm was the day. I took the time to fix some outstanding issues, like the missing syncmail on my private CVS server, and getting my article for ZopeMag started.

I was also able to learn a bit more about Ape, in time for the Castle Sprint, when I figured out I'm signed for Group Leader of the Archetypes/Ape/ArchGenXML effort. I don't know much about how the internals of Ape work, but it seems to me theres no much to do to have it working with Ape. I didn't chat with Phil and Ben though, so it may turn out that know what they are doing. As for myself, I plan to start breaking python2.1 compatibility on Archetypes as soon as possible. Isn't it nice to be able to say that?

Also today, I've added Mutella to my list of favorite text-mode apps. Its a nice Gnutella client, much better than any other linux Gnutella client that I've tried. They also have a gorgeous logo.

Oh, and before I forget, last saturday I added IMCom to the said list, which is a very impressive Jabber client written in Python. It is quite nice as well, and looks a bit like Mutella, both UI and command-wise. Downsides that the Debian package I've got had a missing import, and a bug related to color handling which shows up from time to time. The missing import I could fix, fortunately, but the other one I didn't bothered to fix yet, as it is smart enough to recover automatically from the error when it happens. Oh, the joys of try: except.

Together with cplay, the insanely underground curses frontend for various audio players -- written in Python!, it definetedly made my life complete, except for the lack of a text-mode browser that supports javascript. :^)

So, take a look here to see how's my desktop looking like (that is, if you think this can be called a desktop). My only wish is that I could afford replacing my lil' iBook for one with 1024x768 resolution. Emacs takes up too much space on my screen at 80 columns :^)