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Things should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. -- Albert Einstein When doing my diploma in theoretical astrophysics in Tübingen I always tried to remember these words from maybe the most brilliant scientist of the last century. Staying to this principle really helped a lot when trying to understand many aspects of even the most complex and difficult. Read More

Since the move to SVN, I have a perception problem that was not present with CVS. I physically cringe when I realize I have to fix a commit that I somehow botched (e.g. with a typo). This is so, it seems (from what my brain tells me), because of the global revision number. When I do an error and I need to commit again (thing which would have been avoided with a bit more care in the first place), I increase the global release number by 2. I think the problem spawns from the fact that our SVN already has a huge release number and this accounts for the sheer giantness and complexity of it (the SVN). Maybe I secretely fear a possible failure caused by complexity. Read More

Day 4 in aKademy was the first day of the developers' conference. It started with the keynote speech by the Trolltech CEO, Eirik Chambe-Eng, entitled "Trolltech, KDE and the number 42", though somehow the number 42 went missing... Read More

Ok, so we just had a meeting where discussed the redesign of kdelibs and kdebase. Although we have great technology in there, with Qt4 we have a good opportunity and reason to clean up the foundation of our very own DE. Read More

[11:23] * George ponders what to do [11:24] <chouimat|ibook> George: www.nakedewokforlonelybritishguy.co.uk [11:25] An error occurred while loading http://www.nakedewokforlonelybritishguy.co.uk: [11:25] Unknown host www.nakedewokforlonelybritishguy.co.uk hmmmm I wonder why he actualy tried this website :)

Now that the whole usability crowd has arrived (Tina, Florian, Celeste, Thomas, Aaron, Jan and me) we proudly present the final schedule of our usability track :) Thursday, September 1st: Read More

Day 3 in Málaga (for me) was a bit routinely for me. I woke up rather late, considering the previous night's party and went to Dirk's talk on Firefox and KDE. I missed some interesting talks, like the KCall one, that intended on attending. I think I'll just have to watch the videos when they are made available. Read More

I did my presentation about M.2 and I was so nervous that I blew it ... well I finished presenting the stuff in 15 minutes, I have this tendency of over summarising things ... and it's worse when I'm nervous ... Read More

The life of the traveling KDE developer is not an easy one. We put our lives on hold while we travel far from home to meet with other ardent souls to bring you Free Software par excellance. It's a hard life indeed, as you can see in the picture below. We are sitting in a square in the old town of Malaga with food, beer and the backdrop of a cathedral. Somehow we manage. ;) Read More

As the dot published yesterday, the KDE World Conference 2005 started with an opening ceremony where local government officials attended, as well as aKademy Assembler Antonio Larrosa and KDE e.V. president Matthias Kalle Dalheimer. The impression I get is that government everywhere supports Open Source/Free Software in one level or another, so this is good news for the movement. Read More