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I’ve just released a new Perl module to CPAN, HTML::Table::FromDatabase. It’ll hit CPAN mirrors soon.

It subclasses HTML::Table, and its purpose is to simplify a fairly common task, of taking data from a database query and displaying it in a HTML table.

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Apparently a big propane depot in Ontario exploded early this morning (around 3.30 am EST) – check the explosion in this video shortly after 1:50 -

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Nothing the post title doesn’t cover – over 500 police staff to take training to understand sex-change weirdo.

Seriously, WTF?

I was installing a fairly old piece of software on Arch Linux, and it was failing because I didn’t have xmkmf installed. After some longer Googling than would be expected, I found that xmkmf is part of imake (which was distributed with XFree86, but is no longer used by XOrg).

So, for the benefit of anyone Googling for, say, “xmkmf: command not found” on an Arch Linux system, install the imake package (pacman -S imake) and all will be well.