I’m getting ready to set off on another long-haul trip tomorrow. If you’re going to be in any of these places at the same time as me, and want to say “hi” or bug me about any of the projects I’m involved with, let me know (preferably by email - otherwise you may not catch […]
Monthly Archives: July 2004
Friday, 23 July 2004
July 23, 2004 – 01:15
Newsworthy? What does it tell us that Red Hat’s inclusion of Evolution Exchange is regarded as news? “Red Hat, the top seller of the Linux operating system, has adopted an e-mail enhancement that its rival Novell recently released as open-source software.”
Thursday, 22 July 2004
July 22, 2004 – 04:11
Bigger breasts offered as perk to US soldiers: “The United States Army has long lured recruits with the slogan ‘Be All You Can Be’ but now soldiers and their families can receive plastic surgery, including breast enlargements, on taxpayers’ money.”
Thursday, 22 July 2004
July 22, 2004 – 02:56
Massive shout out to Alan, who raised the idea of six month release cycles for Linux at the Kernel Summit: “Alan Cox had a different idea: given that there is not a great deal of stuff to merge into 2.7, perhaps the developers could actually do a six-month release cycle for a change?”
But some serious […]
Wednesday, 21 July 2004
July 21, 2004 – 09:11
Pipka’s back at home after her third medical adventure for the year, and is doing fine. No more smack or intravenous antibiotics… Bummer. Thanks for all the hugs, well-wishes and flowers… Now we’re going to celebrate relative freedom, and the general wonderfulness of Mexican food at Yipiyiyo. BONG!
Tuesday, 20 July 2004
July 20, 2004 – 07:51
Stunning usability review of GNOME 2.6 on a new site called userinstinct. It includes actual user testing. This is truly useful usability work, in stark contrast to some other efforts we’ve seen in recent times.
Monday, 19 July 2004
July 19, 2004 – 14:35
Pipka was admitted to hospital tonight with a pretty vicious kidney infection, and should only be there for a couple of days. They’re just hooking her up with some intravenous antibiotics (to kick the infection’s arse - unchecked, it may cause permanent damage), and a bit of smack to ease the pain. She was very […]
