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after reading aseigo last blog http://aseigo.blogspot.com/2006/04/things-i-have-learned-about-brazil.html Point 4 in the list (walk signals on streets don't mean much of anything. watch out for cars going through the red light even if it says "walk".) remind me of a sound piece of advice my parents told me went I was a kid : "When you want to cross a street, a road, etc look to see if there is a car coming in both direction, even on a one-way street. There something called REVERSE on a car" Read More

Insomnia has to be one of the worst things in the universe. It seems that I've been due for my annual fit of such. Life has been rather stressful lately and while I usually deal well with stress, my body seems to rebel after a certain threshold. I've slept about 3 hours total in the last two nights. Read More

As I agreed with most of these complaints (http://blogs.kde.org/node/1952#comment-4773) and people know I am complaining about the current wiki.kde.org engine as often as possible - here are news/issues on the topic: Read More

KDE is again participating in Google's Summer of Code. We did this last year and got 24 exciting projects running. They had all kinds of results, from widely successfull over interesting concept to mild failure. I mentored three projects and it certainly was a great and enjoyable experience, so I will be a mentor again this year. Read More

The Gnome Journal has an interview with me on the Portland project courtesy of Sri Ramakrishna.

svn is slow. Ever tried svn commit or cleanup over trunk KDE ? I started a commit, pressed Ctrl-C to cancel it. It didn't cancel within maybe half a minute. I killed it with -9. Then I tried update, but it told me that it was locked and I should do a cleanup. So I did a cleanup. It took approx. 5 minutes :-/ Now I'm updating again... Read More

I've just added another section to an example-based tutorial I've been working on. The tutorial aims to describe what you need to know to be able to write unit tests for Qt and KDE, using the QTestLib test framework. Read More

Couples ( actually way more than couples ) of Caipirinhas, beer, and here we go... Aaron Seigo play for the masses.. Many thanks our fellow XSun for the picture

Well, I'm impressed... cmake-2.4 and kdelibs4_ss actually compile and works (and doesn't seg. fault). Grats to the hard working people on kde-buildsystem. Systems: x86 and sparc... 'make -j6' is a joy to watch... :-) Read More

This week has been interesting, to say the least. Monday was an official holiday in the Netherlands (called "2nd Easter Day") which I used to extend the break from work and KDE that I took last weekend. Read More