Fear my LightGoldenRod

Scene: Coffee room, early morning.

Me: …and you know I wanted my comments in light green, and I know curses has a colour called light green, but for Emacs that’s the bold form of the colour green. But the thing is that Emacs uses rgb.txt colours, and there is one called LightGreen, but then what if you run in text mode? It uses the same colours, so it goes in and says, what colour is the closest to LightGreen? Aha, it’s yellow. So you get comments coming out in brown if you ask for LightGreen. I stared at that for so long before I worked it out.

Coworker: …

Me: And that concludes your rant for the day.

Coworker: You only get three; choose your next two carefully.

In unrelated news, writing all this Metacity test business has taught me stuff I never knew I never knew about the deep ways of X. It’s actually not as horrible as people make out, just extraordinarily complicated and yet fundamentally simple at the same time.

In further unrelated news, Carmen has now reached Minnesota in her house-moving roadtrip across the continent. I’ve been working on the Facebook application (much the most fun thing I’ve ever done with Facebook) and the website. You might enjoy reading her writeup of the first day or the second day, or looking at some photographs of Wisconsin.