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I'm done with packing. Tomorrow early morning I will leave for Dublin for aKademy 2006. It promises to be an awesome event. We have an excellent program</>, fantastic speakers and a full week of BoFs and hacking. On top of that it's the biggest gathering of the KDE community this year. Amazingly this always feels like meeting old friends, even if you know most of the people only per email or not at all. I'm really looking forward to it. Read More

Recently it seems to me that Ruby is now really taking off, everywhere you hear news about it. You know, there is Ruby on Rails, which is really the hype nowadays. And there is an effort to get a Ruby implementation for .NET: http://plas.fit.qut.edu.au/Ruby.NET/ . There has already been a project to implement Ruby on the Java Virtual Machine, and now the two main developers have been hired by Sun to work fulltime on JRuby : http://headius.blogspot.com/2006/09/jruby-steps-into-sun.html :-) ...since there are some processors which support Java execution in hardware (e.g. http://www.arm.com/products/esd/jazelle_home.html, http://www.jopdesign.com/) , does this mean these processors will be able to execute JRuby in hardware ? Ruby for embedded ! And as if this wouldn't be enough, there are also people working on running Ruby on Parrot, the Perl6 runtime: http://www.parrotcode.org/news/2006/Parrot-0.4.6.html . Read More

...and are on the way to Dublin's aKademy 2006 to "shape the future of the free desktop". :-) My last count resulted in 9 Novell/SUSE employees attending, 4 talks of and 2 BoFs with them. Another not so nice "nine": likely rain on all 9 days which I will be in Dublin. :-( Read More

The purpose of this blog: Test if the EBN aggregator works That is all. Apparently I need to brush-up on my HTML.

My first thoughts were: "This is hilarious! Too hilarious to be true..." Here is what I read: "With the slimming feature, anyone can appear more slender -- instantly." Yes, that's right: it says "appear", not "become". So this is not a TV ad for slimming pills or other chemistry. This is marketing for modern digital photographic technology -- on the very homepage of a well-known company. Go to hp.com and read more: Read More

and if it is ... I don't care :D it's a pianist who try to get hired in a piano-bar and he plays one of his compostions, and the owner is impressed so he ask him if it's one of his composition so the pianist tell him that he only play his own stuff, so the owner ask for the title annd the tune is called: "your wife is a lesbian because she told me last night while I was doing her". the owner asked him for another one , again the tune is amazing, so he ask for the title, and he get " Your sister is a whore, she did the whole NFL", still not sure the bar owner ask for another one, once again he hear one of the best song he ever heard, and he asks for the title and he get "Your father is gay because he blew me in the parking lot last night." the owner say to the guy ok you're hired but please don't tell my customers any of your title. so the first day the buy play and it's a phenomenal success, after the first set he goes to the washroom and when he get out an old lady tell "Do you know your fly is open and your huge cock is showing?" ... " If know it!!! Madam I wrote it!!!" Read More

I just read Pat Eyler's blog Reading Ola Bini writing about some interesting discussions on Ruby metaprogramming and how it compared with Lisp macros for writing Domain Specific Languages. In one of the references Why Ruby is an acceptable LISP, amongst other things people discuss how to implement prolog as a DSL in Ruby or Lisp. A long time ago some of my 'hobby programming' projects were writing prolog interpreters in various languages; I started off with a Pascal one and added things to it, translated it into Modula-2, and I did a Object Oriented one in Objective-C. I've started translating the Objective-C one into Ruby, and it's quite fun seeing how the code compares in the two languages. Read More

After months of part time work on this project, it starting to taking shape. What is δ Orionis? It's my own gentoo based distribution. Why I do this? a)because I can and b) I'm starting to be tired of the moronic choices made by all the currently available distributions... I mean the computer is supposed to let me do my work, now I have the impression I'm back to the "good" old days of the winblows 3.1 and 95 era when you had to fight the software to make them work for you ... and it's not good. Read More

Have you ever heard about Project Censored? That project is "a media research group out of Sonoma State University" in California. And it's again that time of the year when it publishes its annual "Top 25 Censored Stories" (attaching the number "2007" to it, for whatever reason). Read More

Just released a new stable version of Gwenview, version 1.4.0. You can find the full announcement here. I am now thinking about the future of Gwenview. There have been talks a few months ago about integrating Gwenview into KDE4. So I guess it's time to get in touch with kde-core to see if they are still ok with this and if it's the right time to start this work. Read More