lshal: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libgobject-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_regex_unref

This helped me find a reference on slackware-italia.com that helped me solve my problem: my ld.so.conf.d had no reference to /usr/lib, only /usr/local/lib. I added it and all is well.

Lemurs are beautiful and deeply threatened creatures that are found only in Madagascar. Mike Lee of Delicious Monster is organizing something called Club Thievey in an attempt to encourage people to donate to the Madagascar Fauna Group.

This is a worthy cause. While I still haven’t decided whether I’m participating in Laptop Giving or I’m making a last-minute donation for 2007 to Médecins Sans Frontières (Doctors without Borders), I have donated to MFG; my wife did so earlier this year after reading Mike’s excellent Dinosaur Ranch. It’s the right thing to do, and I want to see Mike’s goal of 100 members in the troop reached.

I don’t have a problem with identifiable pseudonyms, like Fake Steve Jobs or Mini-Microsoft or even why the lucky stiff. Those are all people who can be identified. I do have a problem with anonymous cowards, as Slashdot calls them.

If you want to comment on my blog in the future, you must provide either a valid email address that I can verify personally (and I will) or a valid URL to your own blog or public profile page that identifies you in a way that people can see what you’re about—whether you’re a real person or a pseudonymous person. If you don’t do one of the above, your comment will be deleted with no notice.

I also won’t allow abusive comments, toward me or toward others. If you feel that I have been abusive in a post, please post a comment. I will act on it. (See the discussion in last year’s posts with Ola Bini; we worked out our differences.)

My readers, whomever they may be, will be able to know that even if I accept a pseudonym, I have at least been able to find someone who will own up to the words posted here.

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I’m going to be playing with some new themes for WordPress and some new plug-ins while I work with this. In the meantime, I will be disabling new user registrations (at least temporarily, and possibly permanently) and comments on existing posts that aren’t disabled (they should all be, but I haven’t verified). I may take Joel Spolsky’s advice on not having comments enabled, but I’m not sure. I will be deleting all currently registered users, too. There’s been a slow but steady tend of spam-users being created. They can’t do anything, but it’s still annoying.

I’m also looking for a single webhost to give me a reasonable yearly price for good performance (the hosts at OLM and 1&1 have been slowing down, and while I liked Linode, I find that I don’t actually want to manage everything that way) with shell access and compile rights (so I can put Ruby on their system if they haven’t). I might like a Linode-like system where I don’t have to manage everything. I don’t care about email; all of that needs to be directed through my Google Apps account. I’d like to consider running one of the Ruby/Rails blogging packages (and I’m not sure which one, to be honest), but I want it to be reasonably complete and easy to use with plug-ins like I can get for WordPress (I’m going to be adding twitter integration soon, via plug-ins). Any ideas? Email them to austin at zieglers dot ca and let me know.

(I’m deep in the middle of wedding planning, so more on the Transaction::Simple stuff later.)