授業

夏の課題の講評会。夕方からはゼミ。帰宅後餃子。

アイルランドから帰ってきたら、シェフィールドが寒くてびっくりです。東京から来た友達と二人旅だったのですが、彼女は強力な晴れ女で、以前湖水地方でも発揮したその威力により、英国よりもさらに天気が悪いと言われるアイルランドを旅行中、雨は１日だけでした。現地の人も「なんてラッキーなんだ！」って言ってました。台風接近中の東京にも無事到着したそうで、おめでとうございます。 超馬好きの彼女のおかげで、乗馬初体験もしてきました（しかも二日連続）。で、筋肉痛の余波がまだちょっと残っています。あれは、絶対痩せますよ！ ジョッキーを見る目が尊敬のまなざしに変わりました。

Ok so I finally decided to attempt putting unicode support into the AIM transport. I believe this was put off by temas initially because no Jabber clients (or maybe not enough to warrent it at the time) could chat with Unicode. Well, Psi can. :) Does anyone know if any other clients do also? I'd be interested to know..
The AIM transport uses libfaim, which is what gaim apparently uses also (and some other programs), so I figure libfaim is the master of all that is AIM implementations. After much hacking, I managed to send some Japanese from Psi to a guy using the official AIM client on Windows 2000. Yay!
Receiving messages was a completely different story however. There was some _serious_ mangling going on. I put some debug printf's in the AIM transport code just to see what was coming in. The AOL server would send Unicode sometimes, and other times UTF-8. And sometimes both. And then sometimes neither!
So it's half functioning. The latest version of the AIM transport uses libfaim v0.90pre or something. However, the latest version of libfaim is 0.99. I decided to take a look at the new libfaim, and guess what? Unicode support is totally gone! "grep -i unicode *.c *.h" returns _nothing_. Maybe the libfaim author has given up also? This was a nice lesson in why closed protocols suck

About half my tomb clamberings in Sovana I was by myself; the more famous places, there were people: with me delivering mini-lectures of my own (much like that other guy's, of course...) to whatever hapless couple or family was trapped on the same path with me ― One couple, Alessandro and Arianna from Verona, almost as thorough as me: I crossed or overtook 'em at least four times ―
All this under clouds but never rain; the only rain I saw all day was literally three drops when I stepped out the door of the hotel in the morning, which I took for a bad omen but by the time I'd started down the steps to the Borgo fifty feet away the weather had changed its mind. On the other hand I only had clear blue (i.e., photogenic) skies as I left Sovana after 6pm on my way back, with one stop remaining ― precisely the one tomb where the lighting didn't matter because it was the Tomba dei Colombai: the best example of columbarium visitable in the area, and which I was determined to see even if I had to pay for it in rush and fatigue; which I did: after seeing it (worth it), I was on the road at km 8.9 from Sorano at 6:54, and the hotel desk closed at about 8:30. I made it, arriving at the very technical end of twilight; it was a good time not to have any cramp or heel problems, and I didn't. At one point I even made time to flirt with a flock of sheep ― they started it