I was not set to be cheerful today, but the lazyweb has done me wonders so far, with at least partial solutions to both my flickr and flashcard rumblings.
Of course, then Nat’s picture was on boingboing and that just really ruined the day. ;) (Seriously a wicked cool picture.)
Discovered this morning that the mindblowing performance problems I was having last night was because I went from running the intended-for-2.12 clearlooks to the intended-for-2.14 clearlooks, which uses cairo in some ways that are not really ironed out performance-wise. Moral of the story here- cairo is way better than it was performance wise, but as [...]
Robert: ‘All a distributed VCS does is make it easier to return changes to the project’ is an irritating statement to me. It is just part of the story. Yes, good VCS makes getting changes upstream easy (which is good) but, necessarily, it also makes maintaining changes inexpensive. And the biggest impetus right now for [...]
Have eaten well so far this weekend- last night was salmon cakes with a corn-onion garnish from the Foster’s Market cookbook. Night before was a great dinner with Trow, and as usual stimulating discussion. Nice to have one’s assumptions challenged. :) Breakfast was french toast with blueberry topping, and tonight’s dinner was coconut-almond snapper from [...]
Cairo and evince folks have collaborated to really speed up cairo on my personal torture case. Well done, guys. I’m told in particular I owe thanks to vektor. This does remind me, though, that I need to figure out a controlled way to run gtkperf. [I ran it quickly tonight, and am getting much better [...]
Spent almost all of yesterday off the computer studying for my exam tonight; probably the same today once I finish writing this. Several people have emailed me with not-quite-urgent stuff, if so, I’ve ignored you, sorry- if it makes you feel better, you’re in good company. Board emails (some of them) and emails from harvard.edu [...]
Good weekend (including Friday.) Spent nearly three hours on the phone with Jeff- spectacular how little we flame each other when we can actually hear each other ;) Immediately after getting off the phone with him, Sebastien Biot walked up and introduced himself- he had just been wandering Cambridge and recognized me from my planet [...]
Glad to have a printer again; making paper editing much easier. Thanks to the lazyweb (you know who you are :) for the advice.
There is a patch for jhbuild tinderbox atom support now, so I threw a tinder planet together. Hopefully I’ll get my own (working) planet together soon. If you’re interested in hosting a [...]
Some quick thoughts about OpenSUSE, before they pass from my mind. In general, I think this is great- the more distros which allow for and encourage open distribution, the better. It makes our whole ecosystem more robust and healthier. And like I’ve said before, I still have a lot of friends at ximian, novell, and [...]
A very happy gnome birthday shout-out to Elijah and Kjartan. You guys make GNOME rock- it wouldn’t be nearly as much fun without either of you.
