Monthly Archives: July 2003

Luis has infected my brain with his mispronounciation of “Aussie”. It’s meant to sound like “ozzie”, but he says “ossie”. No Z sound. Every time someone says “Aussie”, I hear this Luis echo in my head. Infected.

So, from my reading of the Bible, Jesus generally sounded pretty left, and remarkably humanist. But for some reason, these interpretations of God’s Word always seem to raise the hackles of Christians, American or not. This probably contributes to my … Continue reading →

Looks like OSCON is going well: Camera shy Miguel, Stormy doing the suit thing, David Stutz wearing a Ximian tshirt.

ComputerWorld Australia: “Open source software has gained another foothold in the business PC market following Acer’s announcement that it will begin offering the Linux operating system across a select range of its commercial desktop platforms.”

Hrm. Apple’s developer documentation is really good. They have a wide range of reference, tutorial and howto style information. I’ve been reading about their Address Book infrastructure today; dashboard has piqued my interest in the desktop model object stuff again. … Continue reading →

“Extending school hours would alleviate fights between parents and children over homework and help curb teenage obesity, Prime Minister John Howard said today.” He is such an entertaining fellow. I can’t wait to vote him out of the Big Brother … Continue reading →

Ahr, so Advogato doesn’t have link elements (which are meant to be permalinks), which makes planet gnome unhappy with advo rss feeds. I’ve very dirtily hacked around it for now, but I should see if any of the advo forks … Continue reading →

A most productive day… doing housework. We shifted lots of furniture in the study, resulting in a more comfortable working environment, and far less crap around the house. Just in time for Pipka’s three weeks of paid study leave, which … Continue reading →

Nat mentioned that planet gnome was kind of hard to read, so I added in better entry title bars, and fixed up the weird image float/clear problems. Muuuuch better.

Sometimes, you really have to wonder about stuff that gets on slashdot. The Menu Shadows in GTK2 patch has been around for ages, and it’s definitely not upstream GTK+ worthy. KDE may have had this prissy, hackful feature since 3.x, … Continue reading →