Monthly Archives: July 2006

Weird XMetaL Bug in Wine

Up to, and including, wine 0.9.15-1, my installation of XMetaL crashes if I double-click somewhere in the writing area… I wonder if this is because of the reimplementation of the Internet Explorer Active X APIs in wine? I think I have to find a way to continue using Internet Explorer in wine, for now. Or downgrade to 0.9.11-1.

By the way, Internet Explorer doesn’t start in wine 0.9.15-1 but you knew that, didn’t you?

Eugenics and the Autism Prenatal Test

It’s now possible to test for autism in your unborn baby. A blood test, so far with a very limited availability, can be used to scan the fetus for possible autism genes. So the question is: if you knew, would you do it?

Before you start arguing for the parents’ right to choose, please have a look at this site. I won’t force you to read all of it, but at least consider if, given the choice, you’d have allowed Bill Gates to be born. Yeah, I know; I’m a Linux user myself, and a question such as this, even if it is rhetorical, is almost impossible to resist.

Eugenics, anyone?