Just a quick update regarding the progress of my PhD work. I am currently working on quantifying the amount of dynamic topography contributing to the subsidence of sedimentary basins. I'm looking into some examples from Australia and the West Siberian Basin in order to constrain our model output with stratigraphic and other geological data. This will likely be finished within the next 2 weeks - with maps and hopefully some animations.

After a head crash wiped out my Powerbook's hard disk a week ago, I was forced to re-install all the Unix software I had installed. This includes Python (an updated version compared to the Apple shipped one), GMT, and PostgreSQL/PostGIS. I used the new Python2.4.3 Universal Binary distribution from MacPython.org and ran into trouble (library linking/gcc) when I wanted to install other python modules.

So far so good. It took me a while to find the solution for this: As a good citizen I had installed the new XCode 2.3 update from the ADC which is all set up for the universal binary Intelmania shebang but forgot to tick the "Mac OS X 10.4 Universal SDK" option when customizing my XCode install. Apparently Universal MacPython requires this SDK to be installed, as it instructs the linker and compiler to use this specific SDK. Case solved -- all modules compile fine after I installed the SDK. It might be a little bit more helpful to put a note on the MacPython website as people likely need to compile all sorts of different modules which are not yet available as nicely pre-compiled universal binary packages. Anyway - here's the link to the full blog entry: from __future__ import *.