Monthly Archives: July 2003

Jan is funny: “Looks like we all know how to play email-whack-a-mole. Or, as the French say, ‘couriel le whack-whack’.”

I found out she’s an angel
I don’t think she knows I know
I’m worried that something might happen to me
If anyone ever finds out

Telstra wants to be as cool as Apple: “Australia’s largest telecommunications company is set to make a giant leap into the music business with a plan to launch an online record shop this year.” I wish they’d actually concentrate on being the national carrier.

I’ve been thinking about presentation info in RSS feeds recently, thanks to some of the ugly abuses of CSS on Advogato, and validation issues on planet gnome. So it’s good to see some discussion out there about the same problems.
The problem is that the description element contains encoded gumpf. You can’t even say it contains […]

I am immensely grateful for Sun’s contributions to GNOME, and its wonderful employees who work with us. Unfortunately, I can’t say the same for their Chairman and CEO, Scott McNealy, who gives me the irrits every time I read about him:

Q: The Linux community led by Linus Torvalds says the whole SCO-Linux dispute is a […]

Jan pointed out this very necessary piece of hardware for pants wearing pranksters everywhere: Ahr!

So, James is my personal hero of the week. He suspected that planetgnome was ‘losing’ entries with no title element, so while fixing the permalink bug, he also added title elements. Looks like Raph integrated the patch overnight, so Advogato feeds work correctly on planetgnome again. Thanks James and Raph! Of course, I still have […]

Curtis Hovey mailed me tonight, to point out the third item on his projects and tasks list. He was happy to have completed it only a few minutes earlier. Meanwhile, I am totally psyched about Medusa. Curtis, you totally rock for bringing it back from the dead. Thank you!

Mehr Linux, mehr Freiheit!” More Linux, more Liberty! - German politician, Monica Lochner-Fischer

Welcome to Linux; it’s good fun.” - sayeth the one and only Ross Burton.