Spent two days reading papers about topics related to the EvoGrid. Wrote up some introductory papers and drafting a "response" to the papers I read.

Started work on a new project for Uformia, a tag based CMS using Cappuccino. It's "Objective J" that compiles down to Javascript and lets you write code for the UI without worrying about platform (browser version etc). The parser is braindead and easy to break, but when it works it works well.

Today I signed the paperwork to do work for Uformia. I will be working from home, not Norway where the company is based. Primarily it will be server administration and server-side software development, at least at first.
This will continue in parallel to my working for DigitalSpace on the EvoGrid.

Finished packaging the EvoGrid dependencies as Debian Packages. After doing the second one, found it was in the Debian Unstable repository. So was the third, but found that out earlier rather then later.
Set up the EvoGrid dependency generation to download the packages from Unstable rather then compiling from source.

Debian packaged versions of the EvoGrid daemons are now available online. They aren't terribly useful currently, but now that there is a process, future releases will be streamlined.

Last two days have been poking the DigitalSpace website. Primarily focused on simplifying things and using the built-in Joomla functionality.

Fixed the auto generated year indexes in the date sorted blog views. It now causes all details about all articles to be retrieved from the database, not just the ones for the current page.

Found a module that does easy HTTP 301 handling. It hooks into Joomla's 404 error page and turns it into a 301 if it matches a regex. This is only done for failing page lookups, so it lighter weight then an Apache RedirectMatch, and easier to configure.

The phone line tech came out this morning. Phone first rang at 7:30am to tell us it was fixed... over the static. In the end he fixed two problems, one in the exchange and one where the line connects to the house. This fixed the problem, it would seem. Touch wood.

The last week has been spent re-packaging EvoGrid and dependencies as Debian packages. The EvoGrid source now uses one package specification (instead of one per daemon). Working on the dependencies, including the ones I have to patch before using.

On Sunday did an interview for Biota Live about the current status of the EvoGrid.

Preparing slides and materials for an in-Second Life lecture/presentation about the EvoGrid to the Embryo Phyiscs group.

Learnt a few things about using OpenOffice Draw for making slides.

• Setting the page size to 25.6cm by 25.6cm made for a nice power of two square.
• When trying to embed a graph from Calc into Draw, set the graph size in Calc first, then copy and paste it. It will embed as an OLE object. Trying to resize the embedded object just distorts the visuals, not re-layouts.
• The Graph button in Draw is basically useless, no ability to copy-paste rows or columns.
• You can Export each slide to PNG. The size of the exported image does not seem immediately related to the page size, or view/zoom level.