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East Timor, Religious Freedom, Programming
Last Sunday I conducted the service for Dr. David Scott, founder of Community Aid Abroad in Australia and author of "Last Flight out of Dili", at the Unitarian Church. It was appropriate timing of course, with the relevations of the large scale theft of Timorese children as part of the Final Report of the Commission for Reception, Truth and Reconciliation in East Timor. Read it if you have the stomach for it - and keep in mind Australia's complicity in the invasion and the militia violence.
This Sunday I'll be speaking at said location on "The Story of Francis David and King Sigusmund and the Establishment of Religious Freedom in Europe", which actually is a fascinating moment in human history, sort on the same scale as the Paris Commune in many ways. Appropriately enough after the service we'll be playtesting more of the Mimesis RPG game set in the mythic version of said environment.
Recently decided I wanted to see where the Pacal programming language was up to, so I installed Kylix (the free version of Delphi for Linux) only to discover that Borland is no longer supporting the implementation. Fortunately there is a significant community and with a bit of searching managed to get the system up and running on both my linux boxes with minimal tweaking. Have also discovered that said community has also developed their own version of a RAD GUI (Lazarus) which is doing extremely well. The Open Source community wins again.
This Sunday I'll be speaking at said location on "The Story of Francis David and King Sigusmund and the Establishment of Religious Freedom in Europe", which actually is a fascinating moment in human history, sort on the same scale as the Paris Commune in many ways. Appropriately enough after the service we'll be playtesting more of the Mimesis RPG game set in the mythic version of said environment.
Recently decided I wanted to see where the Pacal programming language was up to, so I installed Kylix (the free version of Delphi for Linux) only to discover that Borland is no longer supporting the implementation. Fortunately there is a significant community and with a bit of searching managed to get the system up and running on both my linux boxes with minimal tweaking. Have also discovered that said community has also developed their own version of a RAD GUI (Lazarus) which is doing extremely well. The Open Source community wins again.