Had a very pleasant weekend with my family, particularly my little brother and sister.
Started the weekend in Harvard Square at midnight, picking up Harry Potter six. It was pretty wild- there were at least a thousand people in Harvard Square, possibly up to 1500, spread out amongst three bookstores. Lots of people in costume, and [...]
Brent Smith dropped by bug day yesterday, and today I committed his first patch for him. Only some commenting out, but I think that’s what my first committed patch did too :)
Got some sheets so I can have another guest on my futons, and got my glasses adjusted. Nice to have new glasses after five [...]
Besides LSAT and GMAT prep for fall test-taking, I’m taking the same IP Law course that Dom took last summer. It’s a good class- giving me some of the formal background that I’ve lacked. The course text is solid and informative, and the prof is a good lecturer. But not a very involved student group- [...]
The bugsquad will be having the first GNOME 2.12 bugday on Thursday. We’re in the neck of 10K open bugs on core components, and we need to figure those out as much as possible and prioritize. We have not figured out the ‘theme’ of the bugday yet, but as soon as we do we’ll formally [...]
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Who needs a swanky french chef when you can make your own crepes with lemon curd and farm-fresh strawberries. Yum. Also finally got an AC, in preparation for the 90+ temps expected today and tomorrow. When you’re at home all day and there is no office to run to, not having an AC sucks.
Saw Bend [...]
I can’t bring myself to watch or listen to BBC news; too many flashbacks to 9/11. Hope as many people as possible are safe. Definitely finding it hard to focus or get anything done at the moment.
Did upgrade to the newest OOo builds in Ubuntu (1.9.113) before the news sunk in. Takes 20 second for [...]
Productive day. Lots of reading done, some writing; actually cleaned out some of my bugzilla folder for the first time in forever, and even (gasp) filed some bugs on the ‘about me’ capplet. Was excited to see Olav poking at a vastly improved reporting page for maintainers, too.
Played a little bit with swik, which on [...]
Woke up this morning to an explosion on nautilus-list- Christian Neumair and several others have been assaulting the list with patches, and Alex has been a stud reviewing them. Very cool. By the way, Luca suggested listing the new features and making sure all the best ones are in the 2.12 release notes. If anyone [...]
Spent the weekend visiting Krissa’s mom for the first time. (We’ve met before, of course, but she moved to Wisconsin in 2001 and I’ve not visited her there before.) Didn’t take the computer, and her mom’s computer stays up for less than 3 minutes before BSODing if you’re using IE. We installed firefox, which seemed [...]