Time for a tiny tiny update, I think...

• Uni: Not bad
• Other stuff: Pretty good
• The Show: Very entertaining
• Lists: At least 23% better than other information divulging methods.

Nothing much has been happening on the site lately. I have been somewhat busy with final year uni, and even some semblance of a social life. Aside from that, I don't seem to have much to blog about lately. When I do, I will...

It's easy to lose steam when trying to manually install unix packages. This evening I decided I would like to install mono with Cocoa#, so that I could write cocoa apps in C# (I decided that objective-c annoys me, and I quite like C#).

10 package dependencies later, I hit a brick wall, in that apparenly "libffi" hasn't been ported to my system. There doesn't seem to be much I can do about this, so does that mean mono just won't run on intel macs? I would have thought someone else would have noticed this...

Oddly enough, in the sub-dependencies for mono is a C# compiler. Isn't that what mono does?

And before you go all apt-get on me, yeah there is a package manager for OSX. It's called fink, and it hates me too :(

Update: I managed to get mono through darwin-ports, and aside from a small configuration-dance (and the setting of various paths) I managed to get both Mono and Cocoa-Sharp both working. At the same time! Huzzah!

I saw an ad outside a pharmacy today. It had some appealing background images of nature and youthful looking people. At the bottom of the poster was written:

"The all-natural alternative to anti-ageing..."

Uhh, guys? The all natural alternative to anti-ageing is getting old...