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I have been away from the blog sphere for some odd 3 months. Unlike most I don't have the excuse of being too busy, I have a rather different excuse. I have been out of the country and mostly away from internet during that time :) Read More

Congratulations to everone involved for the KOffice 1.5 release and especially Krita - finally a usable painting and image editing application with professional color support: You can find rpms for it for SUSE Linux 9.2 to 10.0 in the supplementary/KDE YaST repository. For SUSE Linux 10.1 packages jump over to ftp.kde.org as no "supplementary" distribution for 10.1 is set up yet. If you encounter crashes, ftp.kde.org hosts debuginfo rpms for 9.3 and up. Read More

The KDE Commit-Digest, written by Derek Kite for many, many issues is back... only this time, i'm producing it :) So, here is the first issue of my new digest: http://commit-digest.org/issues/2006-04-09/ Read More

Today I went back to the college where I got my Bachelor's degree a couple of years ago. This time to watch a good friend's graduation talk. It's almost impossible to compare school systems between countries, so even while the EU has unified on Bachelor's and Master's degrees it's hard to say where they are in other countries. Read More

Some amusing advertising has come to my attention this week. The first instance of such was all kinds of bad, and provided by the catering company that's used at my office. Now, bad advertising and ill-conceived food scheme are nothing new for them, but they hit a new low this week -- the "Volksburger". I'm not one of those with a fancy cell phone that has a built in camera, so I've reproduced the sign with a bit of quick gimping for your viewing pleasure. Read More

On friday, after a lot of anticipation, my Macbook Pro finally arrived :) It was a reward for contributing to webkit(http://webkit.opendarwin.org/blog/?p=44). It is the first Apple computer I own, using one or two for work is not the same:) After playing around with it, it is clear that it is a very nice machine. A lot of other laptops look clunky and big next to it, especially my old (windows) laptops. One of the things I like most right now is the media centre and being able to use the remote, that is obviously something really nice to demonstrate :) Read More

kubuntu.de published a note today that Canonical had not answered their requests. Their article makes everything sound much worse than it is. The problem was that when kubuntu.org moved to a new host the sysadmin request to recreate Amu's account never got answered. Amu makes the cool Live CDs that get published along with KDE releases so it's obviously very useful for him to have an account. I should have poked Canonical's sysadmin to remind him but the account has now been added so problem solved. This doesn't mean, as some people seem to have suggested, that Canonical is in any way dropping support for Kubuntu, they continue to be wonderfully supportive, both to the community of developers and commercially if you want to buy a support contract off them. Read More

The MacBook Pro Saga finally come to a good end :-) Rob & me patiently waited for the mbp (MacBook Pro), and last friday it really arrived. I was very happy because after just 5 minutes it was up & running, and as a Apple-newbie I was just amazed by the osx coolness / smoothness and the way the laptop had to be setup: open box & plug in power & start laptop & choose language -> done. Just great. Read More

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. This trip has so far been pretty amazing. I found out that I'm coming to Calgary last Friday and had 2 days to prepare. Then I found out that I'm speaking at the local LUG about computer graphics, which by the way was great. I got free Snapples and Kinder Buenos out of it which is really all I want from life. Working laptop, Snapple ice-tea, some candy, skateboard, protest for a good cause from time to time and I'm one content dude. Missing out on the first of those right about now but a man can't have everything. Read More

Today a friend of mine whom I haven't seen for a couple of weeks came by. Over dinner the subject came to the KDE Multimedia Meeting that KDE-NL is planning and the fact that we're looking for sponsors. (BTW, if you're reading this and are interested in sponsoring, please drop me or one of the other organizers a note!) Read More