Last night I installed Paludis (read: I was really bored). I'm proud to say that I'm ready to do my first update using Paludis.

Installing it is a breeze...just use Portage. I enabled the inquisitio USE flag. Then, if you check out the Getting Started page on Paludis' website, you'll find info on automatically configuring Paludis. The script they give you works very well.

When first running Paludis, I got an error about missing the file repo_name in /usr/portage/local/profiles. I solved that by sticking the name I chose for my local/custom ebuilds in said repo_name file.

When I tried to pretend to do an update, I got more errors, mostly about unavailable versions or blocks. For instance, if mod_perl requires dev-perl/Compress-Zlib (which isn't available) or evince is blocking dev-libs/poppler, re-install mod_perl and evince using Portage (the problem here is that ebuilds have been changed since these programs were last installed).

The final error was about /usr/portage/distfiles belonging to the wrong user. This is fixed by running chown -R paludisbuild:paludisbuild /usr/portage/distfiles.

Other users might run into other errors, but those are the only ones I've encountered so far. Since I haven't actually installed anything using Paludis, I don't have much to say about it. However, I must say inquisitio is very slow, even with a names cache.

I'm working on a few projects.

First, there's the Evince nsplugin (for browsers like Firefox). I've noticed some inadequacies in mozplugger and there is at least one way I thought of to improve Evince when used in a browser. I started working on this and, honestly, I don't see this project getting much further. I have no experience with nsplugins, which has become a major stumbling block.

Twimblr is the second project. More info is at icorey.com/twimblr. I would really like to turn this into something very robust and I can definitely do that with enough time. However, it's solely a web tool and that makes it a little less interesting to me.

Finally, I thought of something that I can't believe no one has implemented: an internet-humor e-mail filter. It would be sort of like a spam filter. This project seems like it would be very feasible for me. The only problem is that I use Gmail primarily and I don't know how I'd be able to integrate something like this with Gmail.

Brilliant idea: Pre-folded Toilet Paper singles

Just the other day I decided that tumblr is awesome. Check out my tumblelog and see for yourself. It's pretty empty now, but that won't be the case for long.

My roller hockey game today in the Saturday morning adult rec league was embarrassing. These games don't matter at all. We're not pros. We're not going to be pros. Whether we win or lose doesn't affect our daily lives.

These games are so unimportant that, obviously, we must act like a bunch of angry four-year-olds whenever penalties are called on our teams. We need to whine and swear and throw things because ... well, I'm not sure why we do this, but I can only imagine what we must look like.

We won today somehow, but when everything was said and done and we finished the game with three players left, I was embarrassed to have taken part in the whole affair. I know we're all immature little kids, but do we need to make that so obvious?