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+
+require 'okay/news'
+
+p YAML::load( DATA )
+
+__END__
+--- %YAML:1.0 !okay/news
+title: whytheluckystiff.net
+link: http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/
+description: Home remedies for braindeath.
+updatePeriod: 01:00:00
+items:
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-23T09:03:40.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/23#1035385420 
+    dc;test: 1
+    description: >
+      Considering the
+      "discussion"="http://philringnalda.com/archives/002359.php"
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-22T23:46:57.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/22#1035352017 
+    dc;test: 1
+    description: >
+      Last night I hung out at this hotel with my relatives, all
+      in town to see

data/test/sample_files/syck-0.55/ext/ruby/samples/okayNews-sample.rb

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+require 'okay/news'
+
+# Wrapping strings for display
+class String
+  def wordwrap( len )
+    gsub( /\n\s*/, "\n\n" ).gsub( /.{#{len},}?\s+/, "\\0\n" )
+  end
+end
+
+news = YAML::load( DATA )
+news.items.each { |item|
+  puts "-- #{ news.title } @ #{ item.pubTime } --"
+  puts item.description.wordwrap( 70 ).gsub!( /^/, '   ' )
+  puts 
+}
+
+__END__
+--- %YAML:1.0 !okay/news
+title: whytheluckystiff.net
+link: http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/
+description: Home remedies for braindeath.
+updatePeriod: 00:60.00
+items:
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-23T09:03:40.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/23#1035385420 
+    description: >
+      Considering the
+      "discussion"="http://philringnalda.com/archives/002359.php"
+      around the Web about saving RSS bandwidth, I checked the
+      size of my RSS feed: 33k.  And my YAML feed: 15k.  A big
+      part of that is my content included twice for the
+      "content:encoded"="http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
+      tag.  Which brings up another valid point in favor of YAML
+      feeds.  **YAML doesn't have entity-encoding issues.**  XML
+      users: can you imagine?
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-22T23:46:57.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/22#1035352017 
+    description: >
+      Last night I hung out at this hotel with my relatives, all
+      in town to see
+      "Dot"="http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/20#1035131109".
+       I haven't wanted to post here on my site all the events
+      concerning her death, even though I
+      "abandoned"="http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/07#1034018848"
+      my paper journal to write on this site.  I think I need to
+      flag some entries as private.  Because it's too wierd
+      having a site where one minute I'm jabbering about YAML
+      ideas and the next I'm going into the details of ovarian
+      cancer or the rifts in my family life.  Sure, I want both
+      documented.  But I think I can tell what entries are meant
+      for you and what is meant for me.
+      
+      I'm going to write anyway, though.  Under her closed eyes,
+      she went away on Sunday night at 8:12 PM.  She did go
+      naturally, as we all wished.  You know, I've never had a
+      life like I have right now.  Feeling her with me now. 
+      Believing that she is somewhere now.  Why do I insist on
+      thinking that?  They all think she's been ushered off a
+      plane and onto some tropical beach, a part of some Carnival
+      cruise that you get for free after you die.  Run by the
+      Carnival people who died and their heaven is continuing
+      their employment.  (Why am I telling heaven jokes?)
+      
+      I feel love, so I think about her.  Her death was a sunset.
+       As the sun is buried, it still casts the colors upon the
+      world for a while longer.  I see those colors in my life
+      now.  It's either her literal dispersement into the air or
+      she is simply so joyful now that I can feel her happiness
+      from my vantage point.  Can I just tell you: it's so
+      incredible to know someone who had no agenda, who never got
+      offended, who wielded such power but never used it against
+      anyone?
+      
+      So, the hotel.  We went downstairs and lounged in the
+      jacuzzi.  Talked about work, baseball, Dot and Ray.  We did
+      some dives into the pool.
+      
+      One guy walked in with his pecs and abs with his chick and
+      messed around in the pool.  Dancing around with each other
+      and playing naughty, splashy pool games with each other. 
+      Suddenly they were in the jacuzzi with all of us.  It was
+      whack.  It was _The Bachelor_.  I think I even said, "Hey,
+      are you *The Bachelor*?"  He went and told on us for having
+      too many people in the pool and *especially* in the
+      jacuzzi.  My aunt and uncle had to move hotels.
+      
+      And that's when I started to question the beauty of life
+      again.
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-21T15:34:31.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/21#1035236071 
+    description: >
+      Today I've decided to rewrite the parser backend for
+      yaml.rb.  The new parser will be called **Pill** and will
+      also become the secret behind
+      "reStructuredText"="http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html" for
+      Ruby.  The reST team has put some excellent effort into
+      documenting and producing code for their project.  YAML and
+      reST share so much in common that I thought I could save a
+      lot of time by abstracting the parser so that it can handle
+      both.
+      
+      To give you an idea of what I mean, just look at the
+      following Ruby code.  To create a parser, you merely extend
+      the Pill class and define the meaning of your tokens:
+      
+      = class YamlParser < Pill
+      =   # Define YAML's literal block
+      =   def_token :block, :literal,
+      =        [ '|' ], [ :entry ]
+      =   # Define mapping indicator
+      =   def_token :indicator, :mapping,
+      =        [ ':', :space ]
+      = end
+      
+      This is prototype code.  Hopefully it gives the picture
+      though.  I define the specific syntax symbols and the
+      parser sends them to event handlers which can construct
+      native datatypes (YAML) or markup (reST).
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-21T13:25:25.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/21#1035228325 
+    description: >
+      Okay, so I just found an
+      "FAQ"="http://otakuworld.com/games/saturn/vs_moves.htm" for
+      **Vampire Saviour: World of Darkness**, the game I "raved
+      about"="http://advogato.org/article/562.html" on Advogato. 
+      The article was likely misplaced.  Thinking about it now I
+      can't imagine why I posted it there, but I thought it would
+      be fun.  Probably was fun.  Keep in mind that this is an
+      old game now and since I don't say that in the article it
+      probably sounds like I'm plugging some new, hot commercial
+      game.  No way.  This game is dead.  And time for a
+      resurrection!
+      
+      It turns out that the reason I can't find any information
+      about **Vampire Saviour: World of Darkness** is because the
+      game isn't really even called that.  Yes, that's the name
+      on the arcade machine.  I wasn't paying attention to the
+      title screen, though, which probably said **The Lord of
+      Vampire**.  At any rate, I didn't see a single vampire in
+      this whole game.  Not to mention that it was a bright and
+      colorful game (not a World of Darkness as one might
+      suppose).
+      
+      With all the love that I have in my bosom for this fine
+      Capcom production, I feel that I must rename it for use in
+      my private spheres of influence.  In my associations with
+      humanity, I will now refer to this game as **The Organism
+      of Life-giving Eternity**.  So it is.  So it is.
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-20T10:25:09.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/20#1035131109 
+    description: >
+      My grandmother has slipped into a coma and will likely close
+      her life in the next few days.  We've actually had her much
+      longer than we were supposed to.  It's been a wonderful
+      time to be with her.
+      
+      Her name is Dot and I think of her often.  She's one of
+      those people in my family tree that I really hope a lot of
+      genes seep down from.  She spent her whole life fully
+      devoted to her husband.  Their life was golf, Hawaii,
+      gambling, their children.  Her husband now has Alzheimer's
+      and she has taught us that Alzheimer's isn't a frightening
+      or sad disease.  She helps us see how cute he is and how he
+      still does remember who we are.  Maybe he doesn't recognize
+      our faces, but he recognizes something.  And so it's up to
+      us to recognize him back.
+      
+      Dot makes me laugh everytime I am with her.  One of my
+      favorites was when she looked up at my mom and said, "I was
+      in love with two black men."  She can say whatever she
+      wants these days and she does.  She thinks her doctors are
+      sexy.  She watches lots of baseball, a life-long Dodger's
+      fan, but also general fan of the game.
+      
+      I should stop writing now.  I just can't think about it all
+      today.  Approaching death has been so hard for her.  I just
+      wish her death could be as natural as the rest of her life
+      has been.
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-19T11:02:53.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/19#1035046973 
+    description: >
+      Watching the "RSS 1.0/2.0
+      logomachy"="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/18.html#take_up_knitting"
+      is evocative in light of a new "YAML
+      equivalent"="http://whytheluckystiff.net/why.yml".  The
+      struggle in the YAML world will be trying to steer people
+      away from interleaving content.  (The tags with namespaces
+      you see mixed in with the RSS tags.)  The struggle is: what
+      is our answer?  See the collection of links at the end of
+      "Mark's"="http://diveintomark.org/" posting, along with the
+      "XSS
+      Draft"="http://www.mplode.com/tima/archives/000126.html".
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-19T10:46:36.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/19#1035045996 
+    description: >
+      About distribution in the Ruby kingdom.  I think
+      "CPAN"="http://search.cpan.org/" has put a bit of undue
+      pressure on us.  I personally use CPAN for documentation
+      and for comparing modules before downloading them.  I don't
+      use CPAN to install modules.  I use the ports collection or
+      (on Linux) the packaging system.
+      
+      Ruby has "RAA"="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa.html".  RAA
+      is less than what we need.  RAA has some great stuff.  You
+      can access it through web services.  I just wish it had a
+      more comprehensive search and extensive documentation for
+      each module.  And package mirrors.  Make sure we don't
+      loose our libraries.
+      
+      Two RAA replacements are in progress, both of which I took
+      a close look at today.
+      
+      # "rpkg"="http://www.allruby.com/rpkg/" is great.  It's a
+      Debian-like packaging system for Ruby modules.  I don't
+      know exactly how they solve the mirroring issues and
+      there's no accessibility to module docs and definitions
+      online, but it's got some neat ideas.
+      # "rubynet"="http://www.rubynet.org/" is a precocious
+      project to do about anything you could want to do with Ruby
+      packaging.  I'm still trying to decide if it's overkill. 
+      Again, plenty of ideas to ease installation but no hints of
+      making each package's docs available.
+      
+      I don't think Ruby users have a large problem installing
+      modules.  Most modules are quite straightforward.  The
+      bigger issue is organization and documentation.  Are we the
+      only group who hasn't standardized on a doc format!?
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-19T01:25:46.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/19#1035012346 
+    description: >
+      I am aghast!  YAML.rb 0.44 is now in the FreeBSD ports
+      collection!  Sitting right there in
+      /usr/ports/devel/ruby-yaml!  It installs perfectly.
+      
+      There are two amazing things about this:
+      
+      # Stanislav Grozev did this without any provocation from
+      me.
+      # I've actually seen one of my software projects through to
+      see some sort of general distribution and acceptance!
+      
+      Seriously, what a kick!  The ports collection is like the
+      Hall of Fame for me.  I cvsup fresh ports at least weekly
+      and I have for the last several years.  I probably
+      shouldn't be making such a big deal out of it, but it's so
+      rewarding to see that someone appreciates this library
+      enough to help step it along for distribution.  *Thank you,
+      Stanislav!*
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-18T13:50:57.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/18#1034970657 
+    description: >
+      I know there's some incredible uses for YAML and
+      documentation, but it's difficult to grasp exactly what
+      that is.  Stefan Schmiedl posted an idea to the Yaml-core
+      list last month:
+      
+      > What I had in mind was a "layered" wiki approach, where
+      you would organize YAML-documents to create a page.  You
+      would edit the "nodes" of the page via usual wiki approach
+      or modify the sequence collecting the docs.  At the end of
+      the day you'd have a large collection of YAML-docs and a
+      second collection of "organizers" collating them into
+      pages.
+      
+      The time is soon coming where this will be available here
+      on this site.  I'm thinking of something similiar to Wiki. 
+      The difference would be that the content would be updated
+      to YAML documents on the server in Yod format.  The
+      documents could then be exported to HTML, man pages, CHM,
+      PDF.  It would be Wiki, but with a real end toward polished
+      documentation.
+      
+      I want to store organized text on this site in such a way
+      that it can be removed from the site, distributable, and
+      yet very easy to edit.
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-18T10:01:49.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/18#1034956909 
+    description: >
+      **Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head**
+      
+      Despite what the music press might say, I feel obliged to
+      like whatever music I please to like.  And yet, when I read
+      something about an album, I let it easily influence my
+      listening.  For a few weeks at least.  If some poor review
+      keeps me from hearing an album or I can't make it through
+      the album a few times, then likely I've missed the chance
+      to hear the music as the artist intended it.
+      
+      I don't know why I gave **A Rush of Blood to the Head** a
+      chance really.  I remember being unimpressed with
+      Coldplay's first effort.  Not to mention that the public's
+      admiration of the band was rather discouraging.  But these
+      days I find myself opening back up to **Weezer**, **Ben
+      Kweller**, **Supergrass**.  Perhaps I have a diluted
+      catalog, but I really enjoy the songs.  What can I say?
+      
+      The song "Clocks" struck me in a peculiar way.  The song
+      simply turned my opinion.  I actually heard his voice as he
+      intended.  I fancied his use of repetition.  I went back
+      and listened again.  This song had a very warm emotion
+      attached.  The disc continued to play and that's when I
+      realized that all of Coldplay's songs have that same
+      emotion spun throughout.
+      
+      Perhaps that's a strike against the band.  Their feeling
+      fluctuates between songs, but they don't ever get
+      terrifically angry.  Nor do they pity themselves much.  If
+      they don't explore all of those avenues of thought, how can
+      they very well be songwriters at all?  Coldplay simply
+      shines like a dazzle of light across a country lake. 
+      Constantly and slightly beautiful.
+      
+      I'm not the sort of person who can bore of natural beauty. 
+      I don't imagine many people can look at a sunset and
+      discard it thanks to the monotony of sunsets each day.  It
+      turns out that Coldplay makes beautiful music, which fills
+      a definite void in my collection.

data/test/sample_files/syck-0.55/ext/ruby/samples/okayNews-validate.rb

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+require 'okay/news'
+
+# Wrapping strings for display
+class String
+  def wordwrap( len )
+    gsub( /\n\s*/, "\n\n" ).gsub( /.{#{len},}?\s+/, "\\0\n" )
+  end
+end
+
+news = YAML::parse( DATA )
+if Okay.validate_node( news )
+    puts "** !okay/news validated **"
+    news = news.transform
+    news.items.each { |item|
+      puts "-- #{ news.title } @ #{ item.pubTime } --"
+      puts item.description.wordwrap( 70 ).gsub!( /^/, '   ' )
+      puts 
+    }
+end
+
+
+__END__
+--- %YAML:1.0 !okay/news
+title: whytheluckystiff.net
+link: http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/
+description: Home remedies for braindeath.
+updatePeriod: 00:60.00
+items:
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-23T09:03:40.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/23#1035385420 
+    description: >
+      Considering the
+      "discussion"="http://philringnalda.com/archives/002359.php"
+      around the Web about saving RSS bandwidth, I checked the
+      size of my RSS feed: 33k.  And my YAML feed: 15k.  A big
+      part of that is my content included twice for the
+      "content:encoded"="http://web.resource.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"
+      tag.  Which brings up another valid point in favor of YAML
+      feeds.  **YAML doesn't have entity-encoding issues.**  XML
+      users: can you imagine?
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-22T23:46:57.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/22#1035352017 
+    description: >
+      Last night I hung out at this hotel with my relatives, all
+      in town to see
+      "Dot"="http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/20#1035131109".
+       I haven't wanted to post here on my site all the events
+      concerning her death, even though I
+      "abandoned"="http://www.whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/07#1034018848"
+      my paper journal to write on this site.  I think I need to
+      flag some entries as private.  Because it's too wierd
+      having a site where one minute I'm jabbering about YAML
+      ideas and the next I'm going into the details of ovarian
+      cancer or the rifts in my family life.  Sure, I want both
+      documented.  But I think I can tell what entries are meant
+      for you and what is meant for me.
+      
+      I'm going to write anyway, though.  Under her closed eyes,
+      she went away on Sunday night at 8:12 PM.  She did go
+      naturally, as we all wished.  You know, I've never had a
+      life like I have right now.  Feeling her with me now. 
+      Believing that she is somewhere now.  Why do I insist on
+      thinking that?  They all think she's been ushered off a
+      plane and onto some tropical beach, a part of some Carnival
+      cruise that you get for free after you die.  Run by the
+      Carnival people who died and their heaven is continuing
+      their employment.  (Why am I telling heaven jokes?)
+      
+      I feel love, so I think about her.  Her death was a sunset.
+       As the sun is buried, it still casts the colors upon the
+      world for a while longer.  I see those colors in my life
+      now.  It's either her literal dispersement into the air or
+      she is simply so joyful now that I can feel her happiness
+      from my vantage point.  Can I just tell you: it's so
+      incredible to know someone who had no agenda, who never got
+      offended, who wielded such power but never used it against
+      anyone?
+      
+      So, the hotel.  We went downstairs and lounged in the
+      jacuzzi.  Talked about work, baseball, Dot and Ray.  We did
+      some dives into the pool.
+      
+      One guy walked in with his pecs and abs with his chick and
+      messed around in the pool.  Dancing around with each other
+      and playing naughty, splashy pool games with each other. 
+      Suddenly they were in the jacuzzi with all of us.  It was
+      whack.  It was _The Bachelor_.  I think I even said, "Hey,
+      are you *The Bachelor*?"  He went and told on us for having
+      too many people in the pool and *especially* in the
+      jacuzzi.  My aunt and uncle had to move hotels.
+      
+      And that's when I started to question the beauty of life
+      again.
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-21T15:34:31.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/21#1035236071 
+    description: >
+      Today I've decided to rewrite the parser backend for
+      yaml.rb.  The new parser will be called **Pill** and will
+      also become the secret behind
+      "reStructuredText"="http://docutils.sf.net/rst.html" for
+      Ruby.  The reST team has put some excellent effort into
+      documenting and producing code for their project.  YAML and
+      reST share so much in common that I thought I could save a
+      lot of time by abstracting the parser so that it can handle
+      both.
+      
+      To give you an idea of what I mean, just look at the
+      following Ruby code.  To create a parser, you merely extend
+      the Pill class and define the meaning of your tokens:
+      
+      = class YamlParser < Pill
+      =   # Define YAML's literal block
+      =   def_token :block, :literal,
+      =        [ '|' ], [ :entry ]
+      =   # Define mapping indicator
+      =   def_token :indicator, :mapping,
+      =        [ ':', :space ]
+      = end
+      
+      This is prototype code.  Hopefully it gives the picture
+      though.  I define the specific syntax symbols and the
+      parser sends them to event handlers which can construct
+      native datatypes (YAML) or markup (reST).
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-21T13:25:25.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/21#1035228325 
+    description: >
+      Okay, so I just found an
+      "FAQ"="http://otakuworld.com/games/saturn/vs_moves.htm" for
+      **Vampire Saviour: World of Darkness**, the game I "raved
+      about"="http://advogato.org/article/562.html" on Advogato. 
+      The article was likely misplaced.  Thinking about it now I
+      can't imagine why I posted it there, but I thought it would
+      be fun.  Probably was fun.  Keep in mind that this is an
+      old game now and since I don't say that in the article it
+      probably sounds like I'm plugging some new, hot commercial
+      game.  No way.  This game is dead.  And time for a
+      resurrection!
+      
+      It turns out that the reason I can't find any information
+      about **Vampire Saviour: World of Darkness** is because the
+      game isn't really even called that.  Yes, that's the name
+      on the arcade machine.  I wasn't paying attention to the
+      title screen, though, which probably said **The Lord of
+      Vampire**.  At any rate, I didn't see a single vampire in
+      this whole game.  Not to mention that it was a bright and
+      colorful game (not a World of Darkness as one might
+      suppose).
+      
+      With all the love that I have in my bosom for this fine
+      Capcom production, I feel that I must rename it for use in
+      my private spheres of influence.  In my associations with
+      humanity, I will now refer to this game as **The Organism
+      of Life-giving Eternity**.  So it is.  So it is.
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-20T10:25:09.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/20#1035131109 
+    description: >
+      My grandmother has slipped into a coma and will likely close
+      her life in the next few days.  We've actually had her much
+      longer than we were supposed to.  It's been a wonderful
+      time to be with her.
+      
+      Her name is Dot and I think of her often.  She's one of
+      those people in my family tree that I really hope a lot of
+      genes seep down from.  She spent her whole life fully
+      devoted to her husband.  Their life was golf, Hawaii,
+      gambling, their children.  Her husband now has Alzheimer's
+      and she has taught us that Alzheimer's isn't a frightening
+      or sad disease.  She helps us see how cute he is and how he
+      still does remember who we are.  Maybe he doesn't recognize
+      our faces, but he recognizes something.  And so it's up to
+      us to recognize him back.
+      
+      Dot makes me laugh everytime I am with her.  One of my
+      favorites was when she looked up at my mom and said, "I was
+      in love with two black men."  She can say whatever she
+      wants these days and she does.  She thinks her doctors are
+      sexy.  She watches lots of baseball, a life-long Dodger's
+      fan, but also general fan of the game.
+      
+      I should stop writing now.  I just can't think about it all
+      today.  Approaching death has been so hard for her.  I just
+      wish her death could be as natural as the rest of her life
+      has been.
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-19T11:02:53.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/19#1035046973 
+    description: >
+      Watching the "RSS 1.0/2.0
+      logomachy"="http://diveintomark.org/archives/2002/10/18.html#take_up_knitting"
+      is evocative in light of a new "YAML
+      equivalent"="http://whytheluckystiff.net/why.yml".  The
+      struggle in the YAML world will be trying to steer people
+      away from interleaving content.  (The tags with namespaces
+      you see mixed in with the RSS tags.)  The struggle is: what
+      is our answer?  See the collection of links at the end of
+      "Mark's"="http://diveintomark.org/" posting, along with the
+      "XSS
+      Draft"="http://www.mplode.com/tima/archives/000126.html".
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-19T10:46:36.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/19#1035045996 
+    description: >
+      About distribution in the Ruby kingdom.  I think
+      "CPAN"="http://search.cpan.org/" has put a bit of undue
+      pressure on us.  I personally use CPAN for documentation
+      and for comparing modules before downloading them.  I don't
+      use CPAN to install modules.  I use the ports collection or
+      (on Linux) the packaging system.
+      
+      Ruby has "RAA"="http://www.ruby-lang.org/en/raa.html".  RAA
+      is less than what we need.  RAA has some great stuff.  You
+      can access it through web services.  I just wish it had a
+      more comprehensive search and extensive documentation for
+      each module.  And package mirrors.  Make sure we don't
+      loose our libraries.
+      
+      Two RAA replacements are in progress, both of which I took
+      a close look at today.
+      
+      # "rpkg"="http://www.allruby.com/rpkg/" is great.  It's a
+      Debian-like packaging system for Ruby modules.  I don't
+      know exactly how they solve the mirroring issues and
+      there's no accessibility to module docs and definitions
+      online, but it's got some neat ideas.
+      # "rubynet"="http://www.rubynet.org/" is a precocious
+      project to do about anything you could want to do with Ruby
+      packaging.  I'm still trying to decide if it's overkill. 
+      Again, plenty of ideas to ease installation but no hints of
+      making each package's docs available.
+      
+      I don't think Ruby users have a large problem installing
+      modules.  Most modules are quite straightforward.  The
+      bigger issue is organization and documentation.  Are we the
+      only group who hasn't standardized on a doc format!?
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-19T01:25:46.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/19#1035012346 
+    description: >
+      I am aghast!  YAML.rb 0.44 is now in the FreeBSD ports
+      collection!  Sitting right there in
+      /usr/ports/devel/ruby-yaml!  It installs perfectly.
+      
+      There are two amazing things about this:
+      
+      # Stanislav Grozev did this without any provocation from
+      me.
+      # I've actually seen one of my software projects through to
+      see some sort of general distribution and acceptance!
+      
+      Seriously, what a kick!  The ports collection is like the
+      Hall of Fame for me.  I cvsup fresh ports at least weekly
+      and I have for the last several years.  I probably
+      shouldn't be making such a big deal out of it, but it's so
+      rewarding to see that someone appreciates this library
+      enough to help step it along for distribution.  *Thank you,
+      Stanislav!*
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-18T13:50:57.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/18#1034970657 
+    description: >
+      I know there's some incredible uses for YAML and
+      documentation, but it's difficult to grasp exactly what
+      that is.  Stefan Schmiedl posted an idea to the Yaml-core
+      list last month:
+      
+      > What I had in mind was a "layered" wiki approach, where
+      you would organize YAML-documents to create a page.  You
+      would edit the "nodes" of the page via usual wiki approach
+      or modify the sequence collecting the docs.  At the end of
+      the day you'd have a large collection of YAML-docs and a
+      second collection of "organizers" collating them into
+      pages.
+      
+      The time is soon coming where this will be available here
+      on this site.  I'm thinking of something similiar to Wiki. 
+      The difference would be that the content would be updated
+      to YAML documents on the server in Yod format.  The
+      documents could then be exported to HTML, man pages, CHM,
+      PDF.  It would be Wiki, but with a real end toward polished
+      documentation.
+      
+      I want to store organized text on this site in such a way
+      that it can be removed from the site, distributable, and
+      yet very easy to edit.
+
+  - !okay/news/item
+    pubTime: 2002-10-18T10:01:49.00-06:00 
+    link: http://whytheluckystiff.net/arch/2002/10/18#1034956909 
+    description: >
+      **Coldplay: A Rush of Blood to the Head**
+      
+      Despite what the music press might say, I feel obliged to
+      like whatever music I please to like.  And yet, when I read
+      something about an album, I let it easily influence my
+      listening.  For a few weeks at least.  If some poor review
+      keeps me from hearing an album or I can't make it through
+      the album a few times, then likely I've missed the chance
+      to hear the music as the artist intended it.
+      
+      I don't know why I gave **A Rush of Blood to the Head** a
+      chance really.  I remember being unimpressed with
+      Coldplay's first effort.  Not to mention that the public's
+      admiration of the band was rather discouraging.  But these
+      days I find myself opening back up to **Weezer**, **Ben
+      Kweller**, **Supergrass**.  Perhaps I have a diluted
+      catalog, but I really enjoy the songs.  What can I say?
+      
+      The song "Clocks" struck me in a peculiar way.  The song
+      simply turned my opinion.  I actually heard his voice as he
+      intended.  I fancied his use of repetition.  I went back
+      and listened again.  This song had a very warm emotion
+      attached.  The disc continued to play and that's when I
+      realized that all of Coldplay's songs have that same
+      emotion spun throughout.
+      
+      Perhaps that's a strike against the band.  Their feeling
+      fluctuates between songs, but they don't ever get
+      terrifically angry.  Nor do they pity themselves much.  If
+      they don't explore all of those avenues of thought, how can
+      they very well be songwriters at all?  Coldplay simply
+      shines like a dazzle of light across a country lake. 
+      Constantly and slightly beautiful.
+      
+      I'm not the sort of person who can bore of natural beauty. 
+      I don't imagine many people can look at a sunset and
+      discard it thanks to the monotony of sunsets each day.  It
+      turns out that Coldplay makes beautiful music, which fills
+      a definite void in my collection.