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Last week I went to Norway to do the paperwork and see the Trolltech office. I loved Oslo which bodes well for the next few months. I'm back in States but will be moving to Norway in the next few weeks. Read More

There's been lot of discussion on the XDG list about a proposal called 'DConf'. Unfortunately, it seems to me to have missed some rather important issues. The most obvious question in any sort of common configuration is system is 'What configuration can be shared?'. Read More

Here's an example of an easy and compact way to simuate the trinary operator in python. It is not short circuit like the one in C, but it is pretty simple: Read More

I'm too lazy to register to post comments, so I'll just go through Derek's post more or less point by point. This isn't tenor, I haven't looked at the code. Search and pattern matching is a fascinating intellectual exercise, and here is the product of my feeble ruminations. Read More

At the last aKademy the openusability website was demonstrated with the idea that usability experts (mostly people that do this for a living) will describe problems in open source projects with suggestions on how to fix them. Sounds great! There was one thing I found less then great; those poor usability experts had to write their report in an XML to make the website understand. Read More

A while ago I blogged my thoughts about future KDE releases. I promised to post the list of some of the things I have in mind for KDE 3.5 and 4.0. So here it comes. It's a long list and if I do it all myself it will keep me busy for years. So if you want to help or pick something up, please contact me, you are very welcome. Read More

If I read the Swedish mirror's statistics correctly that's almost 100,000 downloads of Kubuntu. 2TB of Kubuntu is a lot of Kubuntu. It even beats the Ubuntu downloads. that's because it's listed top on the kubuntu.org download page. Read More

By reading the xdg mailing list I came to this conclusion because it seem they are creating solution for imaginary problems. And if they are doing this it's mean they have no purpose. And if we can be kind to Terri Schiavo we can be kind to them and unplug freedesktop.org so it can die in dignity ...

Man it seems like months since I have taken the time to blog, but this quarter just flew by. Since Zack joined the party at Trolltech we have been on the hunt for more developers. Now Zack in Norway is cool, he's doing cool stuff and in the end its all going to help me make better products for my clients. Read More

this was a comment to [Usability, Usability, Usability] but it grew too big and figured it would best be in a blog. Note I am not a usability expert, as I only took two courses in "Human factors in engineering". These where geared more towards industrial automation, where the users usually had minimal education, and the repercussions of "hitting a wrong button" usually resulted in death, dismemberment, or a very nasty mess to clean up. Computer usability is a bit different, but I feel some elements tie over. Read More