Archive for October, 2007

The cost of code…

18. October 2007 General 4 Comments

Chris made a pretty map widget thing and threw down the gauntlet
“I’m expecting a libjana-gtk/gypsy mash-up from a certain Mr. Burton (no pressure)“
Given that Gypsy is my baby, I felt obligated to beat Ross to it And so I present

And a massive 87 line program to how how fun and easy it can […]

A history lesson

15. October 2007 General 3 Comments

A few days ago, I too got an interesting email from a young chap
hi iain,
OMGLOL my name is iain and I am like, sooooo your biggest fan!!! Like, I totali love reading your blog and ur awesome KDE reviews and shit like that!!!1!!LOL that was sooo funni LOL ur awsum!!!! when I grow up (im […]

Alms for the poor

06. October 2007 General 0 Comments

Well, it’s October and October is that time of year for getting really drunk and inflating the value of your project to scrounge some cash. So I thought I’d join in too.
Obviously the Marlin development costs are astronomical, so please get very drunk and give generously. I spoke with my accountant Jimmy “The Snake” Twoteeth […]

…to rockstar

03. October 2007 General 5 Comments

Luis managed to remind everyone what a cute little groupie I was back in the day

but now I’m a rockstar!

I rock out! I also appear to have less hair.

Stoppit!Tidyup!

02. October 2007 General 3 Comments

I don’t want to read about anything I don’t want to read about on the various planets I frequent so obviously the only way for this to happen is for everybody to just stop writing.