Strangely productive in a random driveby patch way. Was choosing paints to decorate my house recently, and I loved the simple way to pick matching colours. Pick colour a - get the swatches for colour a and pick a colour that works with it. So I hacked that idea into the background colour selector.

Its filed […]

Today I’m going to announce things. One thing has a screenshot, one thing does not. The thing without the screenshot is the important bit and the thing with the screenshot is simply to get peoples attention. I know how this marketing thing works.
Gypsy
I’ve been working on Gypsy for a while now and it is a […]

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 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 […]

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 […]

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.

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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]