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Over Christmas I wrote a new recipients editor for the KMail composer: [image:808] The old one was really annoying because of two big problems: First, when having multiple recipients the line edit used for the To/CC/BCC fields wasn't really suitable because it only showed a part of them and when trying to get an overview about who gets the mail, you had to scroll around a lot with the cursor keys. Read More

Yeah so I think this is some evidence as to why I don't have any friends ;) Read More

I'm still able to meet hot and sexy women ... it's just that they're cough married /cough well maybe one day I will finaly meet one and that will work

And in even worse news, I'm finding it difficult to do real work and any KDE hacking. I've done a bit of QCA work, but there is still a long way to go, and wasted half of Sunday trying to figure out a weird problem in KMail, but that is about all.

I enjoyed reading the answers to the question "What do you believe is true even though you cannot prove it?" here. My favourite was by Alun Anderson, Editor-in-Chief New Scientist. His topic was how he thought insects were conscious.. Read More

As some might know, KBattleship was Niko and my first application in KDE CVS. Today, I saw some commits to it again. It's unbelieveable that people kept working on it, even added new features like the DNS-SD support that was recently checked in. I was looking at the code and felt totally embaressed - ill-named classes, heavy pointer abuse, unused layouts, lack of appropriate data structures, just to name a few of our sins. So I want and fired up vim. Read More

The other week I wrote about the 'Object Inspector' features of the KDevelop Ruby Debugger that make use of the various sort of Qt runtime metadata and show it in the debugger's Variable Tree. I thought it would be nice to have something similar for debgging C++ programs. Read More

I returned from The Netherlands yesterday. Fun was had. First, I got myself an insane haircut. Then, I saw Sirenia (and also Tiamat, Pain, and Theatre of Tragedy). I sure do hope they come to England soon; it's difficult having to fly to the continent just to fulfill my obsession. Yes, I was in the front row. Read More

Once again I failed with my new year resolutions ... the first one didn't get pass January 1rst :) I decided to try to be less sarcastic/ironic ... and I failed at the new year party ... Read More

KPDF being merged into HEAD has been the talk of the IRC channels for a while, everyone is impressed. Here's the snazzy presenter mode: Someone must have been watching closely because today has popped up copies of an Acrobat Reader 7 beta for Unix, available to those hand picked by Adobe (or who know where to get it). It has the rendering speed advantage over kpdf but doesn't have the looks: to the surprise of most it uses GTK 2 and measures in at a whopping 110MB (it's not statically linked either and it is stripped). Read More