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Here in sicily summer is really something you wanna escape from... especially when you CAN'T go to the sea (even if it's less than 1 KM from you) 'cause you should study. The "geek" answer: Update: since it's getting even hotter, and since i've found 2 bigger (9.something CM) fans, this is the result: Update2: happy (hot) birthday to me :)

This morning, Trolltech released the Technical Preview 1 for Qt 4.2. Along with the many long-awaited features, you can even find the QtDBus module as part of the standard release. Yes, yes, I know they're mad :-) Read More

Ola! So my return from GUADEC got shorted when the Seniorita at the Delta-air check-in counter looked at my passport and wondered why the laminated picture-ID part wasn't attached to the rest of the thing. I wondered along with her. Apparently dutch passports often break down like this if you tend to sit on them. The implication was that I wouldn't be able to get into the US with a passport like that. After rebooking my flight to Monday (cancelations willing I might even have a chance for a fight tomorrow) it was off to the dutch consulat here in Barcelona to get some replacement papers. Friendly people over there as well but still a bit of a scramble to get new passport-photos before they closed down for siesta. With no minutes to spare I made it back with new pictures of myself. It must be said that I look a bit overheated on them. Read More

I hate moving. I've lost the grace with which I was able to execute such during my early 20s. Oh, I'm looking forward to being in Berlin, but fear and loathing is sinking in as I look at the mess that is my apartment and realize that it has to be fully packed, moved out of and clean in something like 39 hours. I suppose I can see where my true loves are in the pile of instruments (9 now), hundreds of CDs and records, assorted pro-audio equipment and naturally a pile of computer gear. And books. Lots of books. Read More

If I should name the reason which most extended my university visit I might mention XBlast. ;-) What is XBlast? XBlast is a X11 multiplayer game inspired by the classic game Bomberman (known in Europe as Dynablaster). If you don't know it (are you under twenty?), it's a strategic, maze-based computer game with your avatars running around either alone or in teams and pushing soon exploding bombs at each other. It has no 3D or superb graphics - its sole attraction, like so many vintage games, is the fun it makes playing it with your friends. Read More

If the title doesn't tell you anything, you'll be a lot wiser after reading this :) So I bought this new Vaio laptop.After checking that the really nice Vaio recovery tool does indeed leave any main operating system intact when restoring the pre-installed entertainment system, I was about to install the usual Debian/SID onto it. Read More

The Paris summit is now over and by the looks of the blogs the KDE developers are pleased with what happened. The specs we have approved are: kubuntu-launchpad-integration - Add a menu item to applicaition Help menus to take you to Launchpad langpacks-desktopfiles-kde - Let .desktop files get their translations from .po files kubuntu-laptop-buttons - get laptop buttons working with Ubuntu's acpi-support package kubuntu-power-management - an all new power management frontend, Sebas already has some code for this in Guidance kubuntu-edgy-docs - Help!, And those that are in review: Read More

You look at the code of this new KDE application and you immediately notice several of the mistakes that you made in your first KDE application as well. Sounds familar? Read More

As Roberto blogged about how he converted his blog into a blog/podcast hybrid using Talkr, I thought I should tell you about a well-hidden, half-finished feature in Akregator: Basic Text-to-Speech support. To use it, you need kttsd installed and set up, which does all the heavy lifting for Akregator. Read More

Just in case you didn't know yet: Dirk Mueller won the german championship ...as if hacking KDE wouldn't be enough ;-)