Today I decided to embark on an exploration of Haskell web development. I have previously bootstrapped a basic Snap setup but never got into actual hacking. Today I decided to give Yesod a go. I ran into a number of difficulties that drained away all my spare time this evening but in the end I feel like I’m ready to dive in tomorrow.

So I have started to learn Haskell (again - I learned the basics at university for the Functional Programming class and loved it, I have since forgotten most of that).

This is a howto guide for installing Ubuntu Natty on the troublesome Sony Vaio VPC-Y21-S1E. I say troublesome because no distribution of Linux installs a fully working system on this laptop to the best of my knowledge, even though the hardware is all very common and not very new. Owning this laptop and running Linux is like going back in time to the early 2000s when installing Linux was a week’s work on any machine. It’s horrendous that even distros that favour ease of use by default have yet to achieve good hardware support.

I have just finished a 6 hour hacking session on parse_perseus. The aims were to fix most of the encoding problems, split the content up into books and create a table of contents. Other than a few problems with encoding, I managed to complete all that.