Noticed that Channel 4’s on demand service 4oD is now advertising mac compatibility. So I gave it a shot on Ubuntu Jaunty (with the full fat dirty evil flash 10). Ladies and gents, it looks like 4 on demand now works on Linux too, shame they didnt advertise that on the tele.

I’ve been playing with the master branch of tracker and i’m loving it - it looks like its finally reached the stage where I won’t just turn it straight off after a fresh install.

It now brings GNOME an RDF store with a SPARQL interface. Powerful joo-joo, but kinda scary if you haven’t seen it before. Most conversations about it lead to words like graphs, triples, ontologies… My eyes start to gloss over.. I need to learn by doing. So i’ve been playing with writing some python wrappers to hide tracker and just provide a familiar pythonic interface.

Jelmer just pinged me to show me a new fangled Mercurial plugin. Thats right folks - pulling and pushing between Git and Mercurial! It uses the dulwich library that I worked on with Jelmer (was the basis for my “git serve” crack and is also used for pushing and pulling between Bazaar branches and Git with bzr-git).

Coolness.

I look forward to seeing some new dulwich patches (they are using a patched copy right now).