I am an avid user of Joe, a console text based editor whose roots can be traced to WordStar. It was the editor I've started my *NIX experience with and it never gave me a reason to consider more popular alternatives such as VI or Emacs. One of the things Joe lacked was syntax highlighting that the developer had been promising to add for what seems like years. Well, the wait is over! This morning while doing a the morning news crawl I've discovered that Joe 3.0 has been released with UTF8 support and the long awaited syntax highlighting support. While the syntax highlight support is at very early stages and is nowhere near the capabilities offered by VI, it's is certainly a move in the right direction and it does not look like it would be terribly difficult to make it do a better job at highlighting C and PHP. One nice thing about it, is that the colors are much less 'bright' then the ones used in VI that does confuse you with the rainbow of colors.

I always thought of Canada being an progressive country with ties to various economic markets that make it easier for it's citizens to engage in cross-border commerce. Alas this seems to be only true when dealing with our neighbor to the south, the US. In preparation to my upcoming trip to Netherlands I went to my bank to get some (small amount) of Euros. However, after speaking to the teller and the bank manager I quickly found out that my home branch does not carry any foreign currency other then US dollars. Calls from the branch to other nearby branches of my own bank as well as other banks have yielded the same response, "no Euros". So, how can I get some Euros? Well, I have to order them and wait no less then 5 business days, before getting my hands on this rather unusual currency. The explanation for the delay that Canadian banks often do not have any currency on hand and need to go to currency exchange house to buy the currency themselves, unless someone miraculously decides to trade in their Euros for...

In an effort to catch up to the Linux kernel version (I can dream, can't I :)) just over a week after 2.6.2 release here goes 2.6.3RC1 of FUDforum. While mostly a bug fixing release there are a number of fairly important new features in it as well. The safety SQ mechanism is now limited to URLs that need it making 99% of all other URLs much shorter and once again search engine friend (with PATH_INFO theme). The e-mail notification code has been [b]finally[/b] fixed and should be working correctly. I've added a user control panel that creates an easy interface to view your buddies, new private messages and forums/topics with new messages that you are subscribed to. All forms now feature a tabindex as well focus on the 1st field to allow keyboard jockeys to use the forum without having to rely on their mouse. The search form now features a user limiter that can be used to filter search results by user name

There is not much I can say about the movie without spoiling the experience of seeing it, another words GO SEE IT! If anything the continuation (Kill Bill was originally a single movie that Quentin broke into to parts to avoid the Titaniasque style movie that just never seems to end) is better then the original. Through out the movie you can see a variety of influences ranging from anime, westerns and of course martial arts of all sorts, there is even a short appearance by a lone zombie!!! While the movie is great, if you had not seen the first one you should probably watch it first before seeing the volume 2.

In between getting ready for the next PHP release, flame-war of the day and the usual workload I completely forgot to mention that FUDforum 2.6.2 has been released today, shame on me. This release is a mix of bug fixes and new features with full details avaliable in the release announcement (final & rc1) and nitpick details in the changelog.