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Today at work I spent 8 hours hacking MediaWiki—draining. In the process, I finally set up CVS, learned a bit of python, figred out the finer points of the PDF implementation (PDFlib isn’t free, so in the hopes that I can roll some of these features back into the MediaWiki source, I’m trying this free one), etc. Working on a new feature now for the wiki so that users can add articles to a print queue, and then hit print, and it will generate a nicely formatted PDF for them with all their articles, sorted by what they want—FIFO, date, alphabetical, whatever. Manual reordering would be nice too.

The new KSCR site is going to be the best thing ever.

I was thinking, for KSCR’s summer emails, the slogan could be “Just like the Summer Trojan, we put this thing out whenever we damn well feel like it.” #

So these days I have a job here. I spent the day here, talking to some academics about extending Wikis to include a dynamic mathematical graph overview of the content. Definitely a challenging project. (Theoretically impossible? Depends on how many nodes I guess.) Anyway, I was googling around to see if anyone had attempted this before (yes), and I found this, which is the coolest use of Audioscrobbler data ever. #