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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 ;-)

Ken posted the group foto from the Ubuntu dev summit in Paris today: [image:2146 width=600 class=showonplanet align=center] http://bootsplash.org/14_3.jpg Even if I really needed the recovery weekend afterwards in Paris, I much enjoyed the summit. Guess this was the first time I attended a FOSS developer meeting that had such a tough schedule: Based on spec topics that were formulated prior to the meeting, the "BoFinator" planned our days to attend meetings from 9 am to 6 pm in which we discussed and drafted the scope of each spec. Read More

Progress. The new kdepimlibs module has some real content, finally. I moved the emailfunctions library from kdepim into kdepimlibs this afternoon. This means anyone who is developing for kdepim trunk will need to build kdepimlibs first. So, the order goes like this: build and install kdelibs4_snapshot build and install kdepimlibs build kdepim Tomorrow, unless there are major problems, I plan to start moving some bigger libraries. Starting with libkcal. Aaron, thank you for your inspirational thoughts.