June 2006 Archives

By making sure that my "obsolete" glibc libraries were installed. I managed to get Corel WordPerfect 8.1 working on SUSE Linux 10.1. Hoorah!

Not much blogging in recent weeks for many reasons. I've been busy both at home and at work, but my free time has also been directed elsewhere. At some point, I mean to post at length about my readings on the Peloponnesian War. I've also picked up the first volume of Dewey Lambin's naval series: a little raw but generally rewarding. At present I am reading about Napoleon's invasion of Russia in 1812.

In addition, I have been playing with Linux. I finally abandoned Fedora and installed SUSE 10.1 instead, whch has worked remarkably well. I still have some work to do to get SAMBA working so that I can share files with my wif'e's Windows machine, and I spent some time configuring spam filters, but generally the configuration process has not been overly painful.

Soccer With a Side of Slavery

Human trafficking is the third-largest criminal industry in the world, after arms and drugs. While soccer fans anticipate the excitement of the games, many of us in the anti-trafficking movement are deeply troubled by the expected surge of sex trafficking in Germany to meet the demand for commercial sex associated with the World Cup.

Long-Scorned in Maine, French Has Renaissance - New York Times

I took French in junior high school because I thought it was elegant and sophisticated. It was a bit of a shock to learn that until recently it was an object of derision in Maine, where it has only recently gained a grudging cachet, according to the New York Times.