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You hear often about butterflies, but when's the last time you heard about breadflies? Are these apparently harmless insects in fact ruthless genocidal maniacs who have wiped out the breadfly population?

I may have to retract my opinion about butterflies.

I like the idea of Continuity. I don't, however, want to go back to using CGI.pm (or printing strings directly) to generate HTML. That's probably what Brock has in mind with Continuity::Widget. However, sorry, I also don't want to use a widget system hacked up just for Continuity, and that module seems to only be a placeholder right now anyway.

What I'd really like to do is somehow integrate Continuity with my favorite templating system, HTML::Mason. Are these two too different conceptually, though? Mason is based on requests, while Continuity is trying to get rid of them? Not sure yet how Continuity's Mapper and Adapter objects fit with Mason's Request, Resolver, ApacheHandler, Interpret... Anyone have ideas?

One happy side-effect of this obsession with an old German goddess that people have is a 4-day weekend for me. Yay \o/

So whatever shall I do....? I was thinking of

• playing with Continuity (like Seaside for Perl but not a framework)
• finishing the F.E.A.R. series, 3rd game in the pack I bought at home in the USA
• studying German [1]
• reading:
  • Evolution, a novel spanning 565 million years of human evolution
  • L'Aventure des langues en Occident, on the Indo-European languages
  • From Geometry to Topology, really well written (note: has a chapter on continuity (see above :) )
• working out (end of 4th week, still at it)

[1] Also: perl -e'for$i(1..4){for$j("01".."26"){`wget http://mp3.dw-world.de/dwelle/sprachkurse/english/eng-$i$j.mp3`}}'

From Joel Spolsky:

As usual, the idealists are 100% right in principle and, as usual, the pragmatists are right in practice.

I wouldn't say 100%... :) but it's an interesting article, especially in light of some of the discussion about the Module::Install deprecations.

If you're on "irc.perl.org" and find there are not very many people on the server, there's apparently a server down somewhere since this morning and you're probably on the wrong side of a netsplit . I found that by setting my server explicitly to irc.mangband.org I could make contact with most of the people normally on the servers.

Hmm, as I say that I notice a desplitting at least from one of the other servers, so this might not be necessary now.