Today and tomorrow, I'm on holiday from work. After having a pretty lazy weekend, I've decided to make my short holiday productive. I've installed Common Lisp and Ruby on Rails on my iBook, and have been playing around with Lisp, getting to know its syntax.

I've been cleaning up various directories full of text files on my iBook and have come to the conclusion that I have so many notes scattered around the place that I'm probably losing track of some things. The solution? A wiki. I'm playing with Instiki. It seems to meet my requirements, and was pretty simple to set up on OS X. Here are the steps I took:

1. Installing Ruby 1.8.5 from here
2. Installing rubygems from here
3. sudo gem install rails --include-dependencies
4. sudo gem install sqlite3-ruby --include-dependencies
5. unzip instiki 0.12.0
6. Run ./instiki

Then, pointing a browser at http://localhost, you'll be prompted to specify some details about the Wiki, and then be forwarded to the wiki's homepage: