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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

I really would have liked to have been in Dublin this weekend, but unfortunately I am much too heavily committed at work. I definitely plan to be at akademy 2007, and also at http://linux.conf.au in January 2007. So I hope to catch up with some of you then. Read More

Hey hey hey, it's time for some more Krita blogging! Let's just hope it doesn't get out of the planet too soon because of blogger messups, or because of lots of 'hey I'm on the plane to Dublin' posts :P Good, so I'll write a bit about tablet support in Krita 1.6. Essentially, there are 2 things that are both new and noteworthy in this area. Let's start with the first one: Read More

Finally I arrived to my home. I've been for the last three days having a wonderful time at the Canary Islands with many great people (both, the organizators and the other speakers) at the 1st Free Software event of the University of La Laguna. The problems started when the plane from Tenerife to Madrid was delayed, so I arrived too late to Madrid and I couldn't get on the plane to Málaga. After being put in another plane (that also was delayed), I've arrived to my home something like half an hour ago, and I have to be at the airport again in less than 2 hours and a half to get a plane back to Madrid, and then another one from there to Dublin. This will be a loong night... Read More

Are the USA planning to attack Iran? According to news stories, the deployment of a major "strike group" of ships is prepared to head for Iran's western coast. The ships include the nuclear aircraft carrier Eisenhower as well as a cruiser, destroyer, frigate, submarine escort and supply ship. Naval forces already received their formal PTDOs ('prepare to deploy orders') with a date set for being ready to go at October 1st: Read More

... your fridge contains less than the one at work. A couple of years ago, when I was new in Nuremberg, Adrian told me that most people at SUSE never eat at home, and some people who had newish flats still had the cellophane on the kitchen hardware and appliances. I laughed at the time, being a cook-it-yourself type of guy, but now, on my way to Akademy and making sure that nothing will go off, I realised that there was pretty much nothing to spoil there. So, in an obvious attempt to kickstart another geek blog meme, here's the contents of my fridge: Read More

2006 isn't over yet, but the KDE Usability Project has already invested a huge amount of time in usability research. I've now put some of this work online, including reports about information design of the Human Interface Guidelines, about Amarok, Kaffeine, Kivio and What's This Help: Read More

For the redesign of Kivio, Tina and me set up a user survey to learn more what people do with diagramming applications, what types of diagrams they create and what features they really need. The results of the survey are important in several ways: Read More