Discovered an excellent new blog by Dan Lawyer, Taking Genealogy to the Common Person. There’s been a lot of good discussion on it so far and I expect it to continue with innovative ideas and other things that need to happen to make genealogy the best it can be. There’s also Randy Wilson’s Source-Centric Genealogy, which holds promise but isn’t updated as often as I’d like (and there’s only one post so far).

As far as Beyond goes, my laptop died yesterday and I’m still trying to figure out what I’m going to do. The Macs on campus unfortunately don’t have Xcode installed. Maybe PyObjC would still work… I can still work on the design, of course, but I don’t have any code written and this projet’s vaporware status is bothering me a great deal. Balancing my various and sundry projects has been a tad bit difficult. But that’s no excuse. ~sigh~

Before my Powerbook died, however, I did start looking at the PAF file format. It’s more complicated than I’d expected, but not impossible (obviously). I think I’ll start by writing a Python program which reads/writes PAF files (and I can do that from any computer, really, since I don’t need Xcode).

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