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I've been staying with a customer for month now and lives/work in a cubicle landscape - rather different from working from home which I'm used to. After approx one and a half month I got to talk about digital images with one of my inmates, and I told him about KimDaBa. First, that is rather extraordinary that I manage to work almost two month with a guy without having told him anything about KimDaBa :-) What is much more extraordinary is that he previously worked with Bibble Labs, and is close friends with the owner. Bibble is an image processing application that works on Linux. WHAT ARE THE ODDS? Well a new camera has been on my wishlist for a long time, but this opportunity was just too great, so I bought myself a new camera, and will try to see how KimDaBa can work together with Bibble. Read More

I like fanmail, I get them occationally, it makes me feel loved. This guy might need some guidance in the correct direction though. hey jon.whtz up. i m frm india. i m a IT engineering student.i wanna b a hacker.will u plz help me.plz reply me.i would like 2 join u.plz reply me. thnx

After a fight with nature and facing certain death in the face I am safely back home in the warmth with a nice cup of tea. What appeared to be fun and exciting this morning turned out to be more then a little too much. From nice autumn weather to 20 cm of snow in one day. Suffice to say that the only viable mode of transportation tonight is walking. Bicycles are normally seen everywhere here in Holland, but today you will not get 100 meters without falling flat on your face. Cars have an advantage with extra wheels, you'd think. Well, not really they don't have any grip either and going to fast means you will end up hitting the sidewalk. Read More

The other day I spent quite a lot of time at work working with timezones and daylight savings in an application. This application interacts with an airport system to get the times at which the planes arrive and so, it has to do some calculations for timezones and DST. Read More

This morning I woke up and heard the slushing sound of the occasional car and bike driving past through the perpetual open window of my bedroom. Oh, rain again, was my first impression. Sliding open the curtains required just my arm above the covers and I could then see a darkish-gray sky. Ugh, I'm staying in bed a bit longer. Read More

Theres been lots of talk and speculation what a new KMenu would look and act like. I presented some background research as well as some of my own ideas at aKademy in August. I had sketches, diagrams, and notes of what a new system could look and act like, but nothing too visual which didnt require reading my book (literally a notebook full) of notes. Read More

It's getting winter here. I drank my second "Glühwein" today and the day after tomorrow the "Christkindlesmarkt" at Nürnberg will open, one of the most famous Christmas markets on the world. Bicycling is only mildly fun because it gets your fingers, toes and ears frozen, but all in all I like this time of the year. Dark evenings at home provide the opportunity to do some of the things you always wanted to do. In my case that's finishing some tasks I accepted as board member of the KDE e.V., continuing on establishing OpenSync as the one unified syncing solution for the Linux desktop and preparing to get back into KDE PIM coding. This all is promising to be some fun :-)

Yes, that's right, I am once again at my favorite telescope in northern Chile. Getting a metric assload of data, which should keep me busy for a while. Normally, I would say at this point that it's nice to get away from winter and experience a summery Southern November, but I happen to live in Tucson, AZ, so I am actually missing the best weather of the year! :p Read More

Redefine yourself with this interaction architect job title generator. My favorite: Information Deity Runner up: Digital philosopher

From the KOrganizer coding style guidelines: "A null pointer is 0, not 0l, 0L or NULL. Once again, this is C++, not C." Hmmm. If you get bored sometimes, try to compile with gcc something like "void foo( int ); ... foo( NULL );" and see what happens. And then what happens with "foo( 0 );" (and yes, I remember fixing a bug in KDE caused by this). Ok, NULL is not what it really should be, but C/C++ have many small weird things (ever wondered why binary operators | and & have so stupid priority? It's called backwards compatibility lasting for more than 30 years). Moreover, I wonder, why are symbolic constants C but not C++?