Stuff Michael Meeks is doingthings, of varying degrees of uselessness, that I did2008-07-11: Friday.- July 11, 2008 Up too early, off to Jonny's Evolution MAPI talk, where we announced the evolution re-licensing, and dropping of the copyright assignment: read Srini's mail here (appallingly wrapped due to mailerconnectivity issues at GUADEC). This is great news in general, and good wrt. getting the Evolution MAPI connector shipped. Lunch with JRB, chat with Jon about gdm, and Richard about PackageKit. Long and interesting talk with Mark, rather re-assured that his passion for bzr is for..http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2008-07-11.html 2008-07-10: Thursday.- July 10, 2008 Off to the conference with JP & Aaron, skipped breakfast somehow; call with the lovely wife: E. improving markedly, thank God. Great Telepathy talk from Rob, and interesting talk from Michael on Moonlight: I didn't realise how de-coupled from Mono 1.0 is. Lunch with Federico & a GSOC guy working on memory fragmentation detection with valgrind: interesting. Chatted to Tim at some length after lunch, met Ryan Lortie for the 1st time: most interesting. Call to...http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2008-07-10.html 2008-07-09: Wednesday.- July 9, 2008 Breakfast with JP & HPJ, off to the conference. Luis' opening keynote, long & interesting talk with Dirk, interview with Andreas, waylaid by long talk with Mark Shuttleworth. Lunch with JP, caught up with Federico's sexy UI ideas; chatted with the Evo. team, Owen, JRB. Afternoon, chatted to Tim at great & interesting length; Dinner with Mikael & Richard too. Back, for a musical bonanza on the roof; and lots of interesting people: Karl, Leonart,...http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2008-07-09.html 2008-07-08: Tuesday.- July 8, 2008 Up several times in the night with various childly complaints, and again early: M & D kindly took them to school & went to the market, poked mail. Dug at a main-menu performance issue - could well be the thumbnail leakage problem: $ ls -lR .thumbnails wc -l 12798 hmm. Apparently we shove all those into a hash_table in the slab too gnome-thumbnail.c (read_md5_dir) Dug at logistics for flight to Turkey today. Synched with parents, train, plane - poked at mail and...http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2008-07-08.html 2008-07-07: Monday.- July 7, 2008 Cheryl took H. to school, great. Poked mail quickly, captured bug list from the old laptop install; fell over an interesting b-a-s staleness issue, despite the nice fix from Ray to slave it to the session dbus lifecycle. Apparently the session dbus refuses to behave itself properly and quit on Zap nicely, so the great concept fails in practice. Isolated the (proable) root cause of b-a-s not quitting cleanly itself. Pleased to read Brian Proffitt's Sun should loosen up...http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2008-07-07.html 2008-07-06: Sunday.- July 6, 2008 Dealt with the kids while J. slept, NCC - Janice spoke well. Heavy showers (as forcast) rained off a joint rounders match. Home, lunch. Installed SL11.0 on the hold-out laptop downstairs with some dodgy pre-beta of SLED10 still on it - nice: 3D effects work beautifully. Breakthrough in toilet training for Myriam - apparently the comprehension of the (now) impossibly attractive prospect of the phased incentives: sweets, 'barbie pull-ups', playing with dad, 'big-girl' knickers..http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2008-07-06.html 2008-07-05: Saturday.- July 5, 2008 Up early, J.'s mastitis rumbling on (poor dear); she slept while I waited for the builder. Builder never turned up, phoned him, still never arrived. Bother. Lunch, off to the Newmarket Carnival - mercifully rain-free. Wandered the show, paying through the nose for fairground rides for innumerable little people. All Saints got to the final of the tug-of-war. Had a beer with Chris & admired his steam roller, still going strong.http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2008-07-05.html 2008-07-04: Friday.- July 4, 2008 Poked mail, call with Vincent, into ESC meeting. Interested by the do we need users discussion in KDE-land. Personally, (for a broad definition of developer), I couldn't agree more: just taste the OO.o community - where non-developers are 'empowered' more than developers - for a while to experience how bad it can get. Of course, this is unrelated wrt. the target of the software you develop - that clearly has to be users. Continued source-split work vs. m21 - better, I don't...http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2008-07-04.html 2008-07-03: Thursday.- July 3, 2008 Poked mail, realised today is an all-day OpenOffice ESC conf-call; fun (or not). Call with Florian at lunch, lunch. More ESC conf-calling, interview. Late for Kelli's staff, desktop meeting. Pleased to see militant leftists frustrated at the happy ending of the personal tragedy no doubt justified as: for the greater good of making property history of Ingrid B. Also amusing to see another leftist darling: Chavez, caught supporting armed aggression in a neighbouring country...http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2008-07-03.html 2008-07-02: Wednesday.- July 2, 2008 Prodded mail, back to the split package building interest: lots of very slow & intricate work; pulled some patches up to m22. Call with Janneke, lunch. Packed beb303-m2 for Rene. Conf-call with the desktop crew.http://www.gnome.org/~michael/blog/2008-07-02.html |