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Being a non-meat-eater in Norway is to say the least interesting. It's been a while since I've heard people say things like "oh, you don't eat meat? we got chicken", or "oh, don't worry, we got fish". I like moving. Change is always fun. I'm slowly learning Norwegian. I was really disappointed though because I missed the Salvador Dali exhibition that was in Philly. If you live somewhere near Philly and have seen it, let me know how was it. Read More

This weekend my father and my little brother came to visit me, so we decided to visit the Canadian National War Museum. It was a very interesting visit. It took us 3.5 hours to see everythings in the permanent exposition. Like every museum I visited, I noticed some "errors", not historical errors but more like technical errors, like the text didn't fit the size of the panel so it was cut by the next display case and sometimes the French text wasn't as accurate as the English one. But the most annoying thing was in nearly every display case the text had label 1) 2) 3) etc ... but the objects aren't labeled ... and since I'm not an expert on the german or allies gun used in WW2, I had to try to guess which gun (or object) goes with which description. Beside those little "details" it's a very very interesting museum Read More

After we decided to merge some improvements from KOrganizer/PI yesterday I finished to check-in the new timebar last night. It looks a lot better now than the old one, which basically only showed hour and seconds at the same font size. Those with 12 hour display will see an am/pm indicator instead of "00". In other news: Mosquitos really suck... my blood. It's really painful. Fortunately a drug store was open today, probably because this part of Holland is close to Belgium, where shops are also open on sundays. I could get some treatment for my stiches/bites, which caused me a fairly sleepless night. Read More

From LR and sitting: me (Fabrice Mous), Cornelius Schumacher, Jan Muehlig, Bram Schoenmakers, Tobias Koenig, Thomas Zander, Ben Gariod, Will Stephenson. From left to right standing: Sebastian Kügler, Martijn Klingens, Daniel Molkentin, Ruurd Pels, Ellen Reitmayr, Tom Albers, Ingo Klöcker, Adriaan de Groot, Simon Edwards, Frank Osterfeld, Matt Douhan, Lutz Rogowski, Micha Kersloot Read More

I am currently sitting down in the garden of Annahoeve (yes we have wireless). As promised I show you some first pictures of the Dutch KDEPIM meeting which is currently taking place here. Read More

Just read an interview with Nat Friedman, carrying a 'Novell Vice President' title, in German c't magazine 12/05 (to be published on Monday). For your information, c't is a reputable computer technology magazine and not something like LUG Radio. In there he says about KDE and GNOME: "The only people who emphasize the differences are the developers, and I do not mean the ISVs (Independent Software Vendors), but the people who do not take showers. laugh" Read More

It's "official" now, I'm back to more than lurking in the KDE virtual world. I reactivated today, after almost a year of interruption, the mail flood from cvs and kwin. I also set myself a cap of minimum 1h and a max of 2h per day for coding and manual reading. Read More

At work somebody offered to bring me some coffee and used my cool KDE mug for it. I forgot who offered me to bring the coffee and worse .. he did not show up with mug or coffee. I suspect it is somewhere in this building serving its purpose. Damn, now I really need to go to Akademy to get me a new one.

My last but one blog entry prompted several people to write me personal mails. I was away and offline for most of the weekend, so upon return I was glad to see a friendly personal note from Dave Neary who pointed me to his own blog on the matter, and also to Jeff Waugh's. Read More

Lately I've been looking at various Linux photo management apps in preparation for writing a comparison. After some struggling I managed to get digiKam working under Slackware. The hotplug scripts are a very nice touch. When I plug my camera in, hotplug launches a usbcam script that sets the permissions on the device for the current user and launches digiKam, which immediately connects to the camera and shows you a window of thumbnails you can import from your camera. Read More