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Well, I decided to do something over weekend. But not usual thing. I thought, that maybe I should think about some hacks in real life. Flaws, etc. My mind is always like that. I always find bad things, not positive ones. Instead of joyfull life, I tend to feel nothing makes sense, or find problems. So... Here in North America, and in UK, as far as I know, most companies rent office space at some fancy location. For instance, nice little building downtown. In Vancouver that would be metro tower (I or II), Harbour Centre, etc. So, as employee you got this little card, that opens the door for you. But have you ever been at work very early ? Or tried to gain access to the office after 1900 ? Well, I never, but I decided to give it a shot. So, imagine I got your card. All it says on it, is name of company that rents offices, owner of building, whatever. Providing I have that info, I can find the place. Cool, but these cards are provided so that no one but you can get in. Right ? based on what ? I have that card, I know which building it might be. I go there 5:50 in the morning, door's closed. Damn. Hold on, here's card reader. I stick it in, got "green". Cool, open the door. Now lift (some call it in here elevator), you call it, got it, got inside, but, hmm, 26 floors, how the hell should I know which floor is it ? Again, there's little hole with little red led. Stick your card in it, 11th, cool. I love automation ;) Now, 3 offices on the floor. Same thing, stick it in, got green ? no, another one. Eventually you'll find it. Door is opened. You got in, grab some nice little Mac, and off home ;-) That was way too easy ?. Nah. Even more, you were guided. Nice feature ;) I wonder who was so smart and decided to add such feature to card system. I can understand the fact that doors close at night/weekends. But lift that knows where I want to go?, this is bit over my head. Bottom line: you don't want to be too friendly to your users.

Today I got a phone call from my university residence contact (a really nice and friendly person, btw). She told me that she was allocating the rooms everyone would get, but she had some problems... Read More

Canllaith recently started a new series on the Dot called This Month in SVN. This is indeed a cool idea to give non-technical people some insight on what is happening in SVN. Bram is also impressed with these series. He suggest that perhaps localization could be done on these series, like we do with Application of the Month. Read More

I arrived home safely at around 11:30pm with a Thomas, a fellow of my LUG in Bonn and a translator for kdeextragear. He also took our booth parts in his car, which helped us a lot, thanks again man! Read More

LUGRadio Live happened yesterday. At last Britain gets a community run expo/conference for Free Software geeks. Me and some Glasgow LUG geeks took a roadtrip down. Ben Lamb came along to help run the KDE stall and we handed out lots of Kubuntu CDs and showed people the goodness of KDE. Credativ UK dude and Kubuntu devel Chris Halls turned up Mark Shuttleworth talked about Ubuntu and going into space, Colin Watson talked about the Ubuntu installer, Christian Schaller talked about GStreamer and Jon Masters talked about embedded Linux. I've put in notes I took on the LugRadio Wiki, scroll to the bottom. I gave a talk on Kubuntu and KDE, slides are up. I'm not a good public speaker, it'll be interesting to watch myself once the videos are available. It also doesn't help that KPresenter 1.4 can't open it's own files without crashing (OpenDocument files are fine). Read More

Thank you Google! It's quite exciting to see so many people with so many new ideas for making KDE better. Best of luck to all 24 winning contestants!

Thanks Jonathan!! As we are having a KDE bbq soon, I promise to bring these goodies with me.

I was reading carewolf's blog and I decided to post a comment there. Here it is reproduced for greater visibility: Then stop Stop making the effort of reading such obviously and blatantly obfuscated code. You've done quite a lot of work, and the community surely thanks you many times over for it. However, if they keep breaking it, then it'll never end. Instead, everyone who has a GMail account and wants to use Konqueror, mail Google now and make them write Konqueror support.

This week I finished reading Robert Silverberg's Roma Eterna. And I must say I enjoyed read it. The story is basicly what would had happened if Rome didn't Fall in 476 AD? Read More

This week has been pretty cool =) My partner and some hackers from the OSS project he's involved with have been gearing up for the ICFP contest (http://icfpc.plt-scheme.org/). I'm very interested in seeing what will be happening in the next few days as they work on the first stage of the competition entry. Read More