We hope to have a new manual for Claws complete and ready for the upcoming version 2.0.0, ETA 90 days or so. There are 3 of us who have pledged support so far, (Ricardo, Abhay, and me), and one more potential contributor.
I have set up a mailing list to help the coordination effort, sylpheed-claws-doc-writers, open to anyone who wants to lend their time. Go subscribe now!
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Eamon Duffy - The Voices of Morebath, Reformation and Rebellion in an English Village
[Yale University Press 2001] … The book also offers a unique window into a rural world in crisis as the Reformation progressed. Sir Christopher Trychay’s accounts provide direct evidence of the motives which drove the hitherto law-abiding West-Country communities to participate in the doomed Prayer-Book Rebellion of 1549 culminating in the siege of Exeter that ended in bloody defeat and a wave of executions. Its church bells confiscated and silenced, Morebath shared in the punishment imposed on all the towns and villages of Devon and Cornwall. Sir Christopher documents the changes in the community, reluctantly Protestant and increasingly preoccupied with the secular demands of the Elizabethan state, the equipping of armies, and the payment of taxes. Morebath’s priest, garrulous to the end of his days, describes a rural world irrevocably altered and enables us to hear the voices of his villagers after four hundred years of silence. … [read more] |
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To accompany the celebration of The Feast of the Nativity of the Archaeopteryx (following Mother Ubu's Gravidity), as celebrated by The London Institute of ´Pataphysics on the 19th of the Month of Sable in the 131st Year of this Pataphysical Era, Stanley Chapman, President of the LIP, transformed his Presidential Quill into a brush and decorated 50, (actually 52), plates. The collection of plates constitute the 5th publication of the Department of Potassons, and are documented, in full colour, in Opuscule 4, The Complete Collection of Plates, a publication limited to 99 copies, the first 33 of which are signed by The President and accompanied by a potassonic charm.
On the left here you can see my plate, number 40, (which arrived just recently), on the right, the well-known photograph of Jarry on which it is based. |
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Barometz is a project I started, with Ricardo's help, over a year ago which has been dormant for the majority of that period, neither of us finding any time and/or enthusiasm for it, until this morning.
Barometz is intended to be a CVS statistics generator which outputs textual data accompanied by pie charts. It is (pre-)pre-alpha at present. It does produce output, but the data is pretty shaky and inaccurate in places, and the format is not too comfortable. Its creation was inspired by StatCVS, which we use to generate statistics for the Sylpheed-Claws project, but StatCVS is not too great at dealing with CVS branches, which is not good for the Claws project, as all the focus is now on the gtk2 branch, and we can only generate statistics for HEAD, the gtk1 code. StatCVS is also written in java, which I am not fond of. Hence the creation of Barometz, written in perl and can deal with CVS branch logs.
I fixed a bug in Barometz this morning and created some statistics for the Claws gtk2 branch, not completely accurate, lacking navigation, but, at this point, better than nothing - better than nothing, but not nearly good enough to use on the Claws site. The pages can be viewed here: www.thewildbeast.co.uk/barometz/sylpheed-claws/gtk2_cvs_stats/
Who knows, I might even work some more on Barometz in the coming days.
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Frank Aydelotte - Elizabethan Rogues and Vagabonds
[Frank Cass 1967] |
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Marcus Rediker - Villains of All Nations, Atlantic Pirates in the Golden Age
[Verso 2004] |
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Buchanan Sharp - In Contempt of All Authority, Rural Artisans and Riot in the West of England, 1586-1660
[University of California Press 1980] |
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E. P. Thompson - Whigs & Hunters, The Origin of the Black Act
[Penguin 1990] |
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Henry Snowstorm - Civil Unrest
[the Wild Beast Records 2007] |
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Karl Hector & The Malcouns - Sahara Swing
[Now-Again 2008] |
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Nigeria Special: Modern Highlife, Afro Sounds and Nigerian Blues 1970-6
[Soundway Records 2008] |
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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Sankofa / Salah Ragab and the Afro-Egyptian Ensemble - One Tree/Ole
[Honest Jon's Records 2007] |
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Hypnotic Brass Ensemble - Brass In Africa
[Handcuts Records 2007] |
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Carlo Emilio Gadda - The Philosophers' Madonna
[Eclectics & Heteroclites 8 2008] |
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Alfred Jarry - Three Early Novels
[Anti Classic 9 2007] |
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Michel Leiris - Mirror of Tauromachy
[Eclectics & Heteroclites 7 2007] |
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Konrad Bayer - the sixth sense
[Eclectics & Heteroclites 6 2007] |