So, a couple of things. First, thanks to a pressing deadline and my amazing procrastination powers, I now understand FontConfig. Did you know that if you really want to have the 7×14 Misc-Fixed bitmapped font for your gnome-terminal, you should specify “Fixed 10.5” in the profile setting? Well, now you do.
Secondly, Robin’s posted a great update on the Kate Adie story below, clarifying matters a little (basically, Adie won’t swear to having had those words spoken to her by the US military). It’s amazing how many ongoing discussions online I now hear end with “well, why doesn’t one of you just email [controversial person] and find out what they think?”. And you do, and they say, and it’s done.
Thirdly, Robin published his update before I published my last entry, thanks to something getting stuck between my dev server and my live server, so it looked like I was ignoring it. I shall try and fix that. Sorry.
Fourthly, I appear to think “a couple” means four.