Shanti’s Dispatches

Curt Hopkins and Brian Scharts are embarking on a new project under the Committe to Protect Bloggers umbrella.

It’s called Blogswana and its mission is to increase HIV/AIDS education in the African country of Botswana through blogging.

Curt spells out a bit more about the project:

Blogswana is an effort to practice what we preach. The one-year pilot project will work with a group of about 20 college students from one of the major universities, and provide them with blogging and journalism expertise and guidance. They would commit to a year of “blogging for others.” Each student participant would start their own blog, as well as a blog for their “partner” (the person for whom they will blog). Each partner would be someone who has been effected in some way by the AIDS virus.

This is a really great cause. If you can help spread the word, please link to this post on your weblog or email your blogger pals about it!

I thought this was a problem only associated with Microsoft updates! Apparently not!

If you compiled Ruby from source, following instructions from this Hivelogic tutorial, the latest OS X Tiger update may have killed your symbolic link to Ruby 1.8.4.

(This assumes you had installed Ruby 1.8.4 to /usr/local and had symbolically linked to this binary from /usr/bin/ruby)

Simple enough solution though:

cd /usr/bin
sudo mv ruby ruby.back
sudo ln -s /usr/local/bin/ruby /usr/bin/ruby

Now try a “ruby -v” and you should see 1.8.4 as the version.

(In defense of OS X — at least I’m not rebooting into 8bit, 16color 800×600 resolution on my 20″ flatscreen, as has happened w/ MS updates before.)