something crafty is in the works

I started listening to the Ideas podcasts put out by CBC Radio and found a couple I think are worth a listen. The first one is a broadcast of the Economics and Social Justice forum with Pier Luigi Sacco & Avi Lewis recorded in Vancouver in July 2006. I think that Sacco’s peice is more interesting than Lewis’ peice, but they’re both worth at least one listen. I’ll probably listen to the Sacco peice again. Here’s a transcript of the podcast if reading is more your thing.

In the second podcast, Michael Enright deals with the topic of Muslim integration into Western societies. The show starts with an interveiw of Tariq Ramadan. I found the interview more interesting than the panel disscussion in the second half of the show.

I finally committed my libusb patch to gok. Horay! (Well, I shouldn’t celbrate too much, it did take a while )

Ok, so here are the nitty gritty details: GOK now has a command line option, ‘–with-libusb-input=VID:PID’, which allows you to specify an input device VID/PID pair you would like to use with GOK. This device will be detached from the kernel input driver when GOK starts and will be used exclusively for the GOK pointer. This feature needs a bit of love to make things work more automatically but in the mean time you can find device configuration infromation in README.libusb. This feature currently only works with GNU/Linux. Also, to use the patch, you’ll need to compile GOK with ‘–enable-libusb-input’. If you have any questions, feel free to drop me a line.