MAY
16
2006

Blog

I decided to move my blog and it's now at http://zrusin.blogspot.com/

APR
13
2006

Creating organic interfaces

V for Vendetta is so good. Aaron and I went to see it yesterday. On the way there we went to a really great (and cheap) vegan Chinese place and stopped by an arcade (remember those?). Coming back we got asked for money under a bridge. The irony of having people ask for money from two trolls under a bridge runs deep.

APR
9
2006

Calgary

Oh, sure, normally when you go to visit your friends they take you down to see the city they live in, hang out with their friends and so on. It's no different when I come to see aseigo, but we do all that while protesting. We went on a protest against the seal hunt today. P-man came with us carrying a plush seal toy. I think that image will define "cute" for me from now on (and being a member of the "cute 4" I know cute when I see it). In general it went very well which is just great.

MAR
30
2006

Hardware fun

I'm finishing my leave of absence and going back to work. Yes, doing what I wanted was great, but the pay was miserable. So I'll be going back to Trolltech. It looks like Trolltech will pay me to go to Calgary and work on Plasma with Aaron for a bit, which is just great. Plus apparently the love of my life is in Calgary. I know what you're thinking "Zack, but they have Snapple ice-tea everywhere", yes, but not Kinder Bueno's. You don't know love unless you've tried Snapple's lemon ice-tea with a kinder bueno.

FEB
8
2006

Santa Clara

I'm in Santa Clara for the XDevConf. Flying from cold and rainy Philly to sunny Santa Clara is quite a change. I wish I brought my skateboard.

JAN
10
2006

SWF

Lets talk SWF. A lot of people seem to be mentioning Gnash today. Some seem to think it's a giant step for FSF. I think it's really funny. It's really funny (or sad - it depends how you look at it) how a giant win for FSF is taking a wonderful Public Domain project and basically just releasing it under GNU GPL.

JAN
4
2006

"Lead developer"

My last blog entry has been caught by a few sites which described me as a "lead KDE developer". I felt the need to clarify this because I don't think it's fair to all other KDE developers.

I'm not a lead KDE developer. KDE doesn't have a lead developer. We're all equals. In fact that's one of the most beautiful things about KDE!

JAN
1
2006

It's going to be a good year

I finally got most the implementation of the HTML Canvas element for KHTML finished. It's in the kdelibs-js branch in SVN. After George/Maks merge their other changes we'll merge it to HEAD. I'm planning to add full OSX Dashboard compatibility layer for Plasma (hence why I've spent most of the day yesterday on implementing the Canvas element).

NOV
27
2005

Some reflections

I haven't blogged for a while again. To some extend because the things I'm doing at the moment have little to do with KDE. First of all, yes, it's true that I don't work for Trolltech and that I'm back in States. For now I took a leave of absence to work on some other things. Right now those other things are physics; superstring theory to be exact. I'd like to finish my research, write a paper and then we'll see what I'll be doing.

OCT
22
2005

Simply cool

I haven't been blogging for a while. Mainly because I simply haven't felt like it and I've been going through some things lately. But I promised that I'm going to show some movies of things I've been doing. There's really no good way of showing OpenGL effects, vns2swf just doesn't handle it. So those will come later.

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