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I turned thirty yesterday. Still can't believe it... My wife came up with a really awesome present: a booklet containing an invitation for 100 different high sensation activities. These activities are as versatile as scuba diving, helicopter flying, bungee jumping, driving a Ferrari, an F3 or even a 2nd war assault tank (!), paragliding... Only problem: I must choose only one of them. And I'm afraid receiving the same present for the next years so that I can try the other activities is not an option... Read More

About a week ago, my laptop broke -- completely broke in the sense that not only does the machine not work any longer, it even trashed my whole harddisk. Now I'm at aKademy without a laptop and still one whole afternoon of the KDE e.V. general assembly left to sit through... Oh, how much I envy all those developers sitting in there with their laptops, hacking on KDE stuff! Read More

Top sign you worked too much on kdm I was in the talk of keithp and he referenced had on his slides "X -- ossified" and I was just thinking "no! you don't want that". After that I figured he didn't mean Oswald but open source. Read More

Once upon a time, there were all those nice, separate applications that were somehow meant for various PIM tasks like mail, calendar, addressbook, etc. To make the world an even better place (and to share resources), they decided to unite, join forces and create this wonderful application, called Kontact. Just like one large family, they worked together and due to the large number of active developers the project flourished. Read More

Yesterday, on the second conference day of aKademy 2006, the Kickoff talk was given by Coolo. It was well attended and received. Many questions afterwards including if simple calculations in the search line work like in mini cli (yes, they do). I took some few photos of the talk. It was video-taped like all others talks and will be available for download later. The Kickoff page in the openSUSE Wiki continues to fill up with goals of the project, the findings of the usability study and description of the current implementation. Some people asked and it seems others are also not aware that the source code of Kickoff is hosted and developed within KDE's SVN for some weeks: you can find it in branches/work/suse_kickoff/ - so get it and play with it! Read More

The KDE conference has had a great first day here in Dublin. The buzz here has an impressive atmosphere because unlike last year where we were just hearing the start of what might become KDE 4 one day, now we have all these projects saying what they've done and where they're going. KDE 4 really is going to rock! Read More

Some random thoughts, if you want coverage of the talks happening here: Planet KDE has many impressions. I have never seen so many people being interested in golf. The Ryder Cup is visible everywhere in the town, on many advertizing spaces, on all TVs in the pubs. It looks btw like Europe will win against USA (again). The weather, as cold and moistly as weather forecast predicted. I guess the real challenge in Golf is to play with rain and hurricane left-overs noticeable. How often a week do Irish people have an original Irish breakfast? And how does their cholesterol level look like? In general, the food seems to be expensive here. Never experienced a town were in all nights (ok, only two until now) at around 2am horse carriages are passing on the streets. How to you recognize a good pub? Obviously if there are more people standing on the street (drinking and not smoking) than would ever fit into the pub. The architecture of the living houses and business streets follow all the same imo boring style. Pedestrian lights seem to exist at traffic lights only with a slight chance. They get green (after yellow) in all directions at the same time if at all. The residents seem to ignore them most time anyway. Really risky if you follow this habit and are used to look for traffic to the left... Read More

Just a small entry to congratulate Boudewijn (and all the other Krita developers, of course!) with his winning (on his birthday) of an award at aKademy with Krita: "Best Application: Krita, Boudewijn Rempt"! Yay! Too bad he was not at aKademy to receive his price first-hand, but I'm guessing the applause was big enough to be heard in the Netherlands ;) Congratulations!

As usual at Akademy we have an icecream cluster here, icecream is the distributed builder for the discerning compiler. Update: David Faure recommended upgrading to Subversion 1.4 for 10 times extra speed, so I've added that. You can get subversion 1.4 and icecream from: Read More

So Akademy started and the atmosphere is great. The talks so far are very nice and if the talks that are up next hold up to their title the next days will provide a lot if listening pleasure. Read More