Miscellaneous T July 20
I just got back from a visit to Gainesville, FL. I spent most of my time meeting with my real estate agent, Mika Harris. I think I have found a house, but I am yet to close, so one never knows. It was nice to compare the real estate market in Gainesville to Los Angeles; it turns out that LA is a bit more expensive.
Recently, the Brunet project moved our version control system from CVS to Gnu Arch. Arch is a very powerful system. We are using the Gatekeeper Model, where each of our developers has their own Arch repository (mine is here), and Kamen M. Lozev will merge everything into the mainline tree. I am really impressed with Arch. Coming from CVS it seems a bit confusing at first but that is because it can do things that CVS simply can’t do (like star-merge). Once you see how much easier it makes group development, I think you’ll never look back.
I saw The Corporation last night. I think it is a must see. I tend to feel discouraged by such films, but there are some things I can do. I can buy sweatshop-free clothes from NoSweat, I can invest my money in Green Century Funds, I can use environmentally safe cleaning products. In my opinion, people need to vote politically, as well as with their purchases. Lastly, I think improving voting systems (such as instant run-off voting, advocated by Santa Monica Ranked Voting) could help get more voices heard in the US political arena.