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Monday, 17 January 2005

Dorking around...

Geiseri  | 
Yeah so I think this is some evidence as to why I don't have any friends ;) Read More
Monday, 17 January 2005

I got 89 at the nerd test and so what?

Chouimat  | 
I'm still able to meet hot and sexy women ... it's just that they're cough married /cough well maybe one day I will finaly meet one and that will work Read More
Monday, 17 January 2005

Nerd scoring (sorry)

And in even worse news, I'm finding it difficult to do real work and any KDE hacking. I've done a bit of QCA work, but there is still a long way to go, and wasted half of Sunday trying to figure out a weird problem in KMail, but that is about all. Read More
Friday, 14 January 2005

Are Cockroaches Conscious?

I enjoyed reading the answers to the question "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" here. My favourite was by Alun Anderson, Editor-in-Chief New Scientist. His topic was how he thought insects were conscious.. Read More
Thursday, 13 January 2005

Juvenile sins: KBattleship

As some might know, KBattleship was Niko and my first application in KDE CVS. Today, I saw some commits to it again. It's unbelieveable that people kept working on it, even added new features like the DNS-SD support that was recently checked in. I was looking at the code and felt totally embaressed - ill-named classes, heavy pointer abuse, unused layouts, lack of appropriate data structures, just to name a few of our sins. So I want and fired up vim. Read More
Wednesday, 12 January 2005

KSpy Object Inspector

The other week I wrote about the 'Object Inspector' features of the KDevelop Ruby Debugger that make use of the various sort of Qt runtime metadata and show it in the debugger's Variable Tree. I thought it would be nice to have something similar for debgging C++ programs. Read More
Wednesday, 12 January 2005

They should send their excess vowels to eastern europe

Njaard  | 
I returned from The Netherlands yesterday. Fun was had. First, I got myself an insane haircut. Then, I saw Sirenia (and also Tiamat, Pain, and Theatre of Tragedy). I sure do hope they come to England soon; it's difficult having to fly to the continent just to fulfill my obsession. Yes, I was in the front row. Read More
Friday, 7 January 2005

Damn! I'm so fucking lazy!

Chouimat  | 
Once again I failed with my new year resolutions ... the first one didn't get pass January 1rst :) I decided to try to be less sarcastic/ironic ... and I failed at the new year party ... Read More
Friday, 7 January 2005

PDF programmes

Jriddell  | 
KPDF being merged into HEAD has been the talk of the IRC channels for a while, everyone is impressed. Here's the snazzy presenter mode: Someone must have been watching closely because today has popped up copies of an Acrobat Reader 7 beta for Unix, available to those hand picked by Adobe (or who know where to get it). It has the rendering speed advantage over kpdf but doesn't have the looks: to the surprise of most it uses GTK 2 and measures in at a whopping 110MB (it's not statically linked either and it is stripped). Read More
Thursday, 6 January 2005

Ministry of Silly Hats

Yes, that's right folks, it's the Ministry of Silly Hats. A privileged few of you have been subjected to my gests on the acquiring of an appropriate sombrero de Tejas and well, guess what Santa Claus, err, mom, brought me this year? Read More