Canllaith 

This week has been pretty cool =) My partner and some hackers from the OSS project he's involved with have been gearing up for the ICFP contest (http://icfpc.plt-scheme.org/). I'm very interested in seeing what will be happening in the next few days as they work on the first stage of the competition entry. Read More

Last night I took a break from the computer to go walking around the waterfront with Bruce and Mara. I think we girls tried his patience sorely, as we stopped ever 5 paces to take yet another photograph of the lights across the harbour. I can only assume it's our incredible cuteness that makes him put up with both of us at once ;) Read More

Lately I've been looking at various Linux photo management apps in preparation for writing a comparison. After some struggling I managed to get digiKam working under Slackware. The hotplug scripts are a very nice touch. When I plug my camera in, hotplug launches a usbcam script that sets the permissions on the device for the current user and launches digiKam, which immediately connects to the camera and shows you a window of thumbnails you can import from your camera. Read More

This evening I went along to a Mac developers meeting. We were invited to sit in a circle and introduce ourselves one by one. "Hi, I'm Jessica and I'm a Linux geek and open source hacker. I don't use macs." Read More

Today was my second glider flight. I try not to mention the first one. The discovery that I was lactose intolerant at 3000ft after drinking an inhabitual hot chocolate on my way to the airfield was fairly traumatic for both myself and the pilot. Read More

It's a small, small world. While staying in Wellington I thought I'd take the opportunity check out the local LUG. It seems to be a collection of some pretty nice people of varying geekiness, most of whom I'm interested in getting to know better. A nice man who has the same model laptop as I do. We exchanged some pointers on how we'd gotten various things working. A younger guy, burning with New Gentoo Convert Zeal. Seems very bright and funny in a goofy way. There was one other girl there - yay! Read More

Job interviews really, really suck. The traditional upbringing of an Australian fundamentalist christian renders you almost incapable of 'selling yourself' effectively in an interview. As a child, you learn that to state your own talents is 'bragging' or 'being up yourself'. It makes it very difficult as an adult to then learn how to market yourself to an employer. They ask you 'So, why should we give you this job?' and you look at them blankly. 'Uh.... um, cause I wouldn't suck at it too much?' Read More

I'm currently doing some research focused on marketing and promotion for a KDE related project, and I'd really love it if people reading this could help me out. I'm looking for the opinions of primarily windows and apple users who have switched to using KDE on UNIX-like platforms. There are two main points I'd like to collect data about: Read More

I've been fortunate enough to get my hands on a replacement laptop thanks to someone who has now secured my life-long adoration. My venerable dell latitude csx that has served me for much of the last year has been acting up lately eating up batteries and having the charger malfunction. Not very good and rather frustrating. Read More

I'm making plans to possibly move to Sydney sometime within the next few months. For those of you in the US, New Zealand is not a part of Australia, and I even need a passport to go there. It's not a huge move since the countries are so similar and I am actually Australian to start with, but moving country at the best of times is a Big Pain. Read More

This week I'm rewriting the kicker handbook and I'm wondering how one jazzes up documentation about the absolute basics. How do you not send your audience to sleep explaining the concept of a taskbar? It's fairly obvious but it has to be documented somewhere. We can't expect the mac users to pick things up by themselves. They might start to make a habit of it, and anarchy would ensue. Who would we torment? Read More

aseigo damn, you need to start a KDE blog aseigo theobroma has canllaith I need to start a KDE blog? aseigo damn straight =P canllaith Ok fine. Where do I sign up. Read More