Archive for September, 2007
A public announcement for all potential employers/girlfriends reading this blog
Hi,
It has recently been brought to my attention that my actions, comments, opinions and things I do, make, say and think (teehee) may make me a less attractive candidate for your employment/affections. Well, to be completely honest this isn’t the first time I’ve been told this and really I don’t care. If you are a […]
My Voyage of Discovery
Luis asked if anyone had tried the KDE4 live CD, so being a funlovin’ guy I downloaded it from http://home.kde.org/~binner/kde-four-live/ and gave it a shot. Once it loaded I was dropped to a login screen with a username and password. I didn’t know the username/password. While I was staring at this screen I noticed that […]
Vitriol
Fullish disclosure: I am and have always been a GNOME developer/user. I used KDE for about 30 seconds at V0.9a (Or there abouts, all I really remember was that it was some version just before 1.0 came out). I read about what they do because I’m interested in what they are up to, but really […]
Come on…own up
Who was it?
(PS, thanks, my mom is always right…)
What is an arms cache and why do I need to refresh it?
Osama posted a comment to my last blog post with a sarcastic “What is a cache and why do I need to refresh it?”. He’s got a valid point.
To me, having “refreshing a cache” in the status UI is much like the rationale for having both armies and private militia in the world. The client […]
I am most excellent
Without much prompting from myself Ross decided to say: “the most excellent Iain Holmes.”
He also said “I also plan to work with Iain on cleaning up this code and submitting it for inclusion into GTK+.”
Just so everyone understands my part in this arrangement […]
Time for a good ol’ fashioned geek hunt
President Bush Outlines Miggi Threat
Remarks by the President on Miguel
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you all. Thank you for that very gracious and warm Cincinnati welcome. I’m honored to be here tonight; I appreciate you all coming.
Tonight I want to take a few minutes to discuss a grave threat to peace, and […]