Author Archives: aklapper

freedom of speech. thanks.

so, to summarize and comment the complaints i have seen in the latest blog postings on http://planet.gnome.org and its comments: i DO want people to post about politics, if they want to. i DO want people to blog about vegetarianism, … Continue reading

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holidays.

the next two weeks, steffi and me are going to travel a bit through belgium, north-eastern france and the netherlands (no fixed plans on anything though, so we’ll see which areas to visit and which folks exactly to meet and … Continue reading

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bugday this wednesday!

dear GNOME project, all my best wishes to your 10th birthday! about 5 or 6 years ago we met for the first time: me, another stoopid user that could not get his modem to work under windows 98 anymore (and … Continue reading

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2.20’s internationalization; guadec results.

maintainers don’t forget to add new files with translatable strings to POTFILES.in/POTFILES.skip, otherwise those new strings will not be caught. quickly check http://l10n.gnome.org/module/$MODULENAME to get a list of those files (they are listed at the top of the “UI translations” … Continue reading

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at the bug front, fronting.

congratulations to the tracker crew – bug 403752 has now become number one in the all time statistics. though it has been fixed in svn for nearly 3 months now (2007-04-30), the maintainer(s) is unable to either release a new … Continue reading

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gnome, where’s my monitoring at?

guadec, birmingham. currently at birmingham for one week to attend guadec, the gnome conference. my plane from cologne to birmingham had a delay of more than four hours, and i dislike waiting for a long time at airports (i know … Continue reading

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this is television freedom.

warning to the purists: this posting contains links to flash content. looks like ztohoven (nice pun, by the way) managed to have their own video broadcasted instead of the normal weather show yesterday morning on czech television ČT2. i try … Continue reading

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back in browntown.

Prag ist vorbei. Schade. Vermisse die Leute und den Cross Club, aber die meisten Leute sind jetzt ja genauso wie ich wieder daheim, von daher ist es eine Illusion, genauso wie das Leben ein Paralleluniversum, eine Blase war – wer … Continue reading

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guadec / back in D.

similar to ryan’s page for 2006, i quickly created a page for guadec participants to document their arrival times at birmingham, so that people can meet up and socialize even earlier(TM).just go to http://live.gnome.org/GUADEC/2007/ArrivalTimes and add yourself to the list. … Continue reading

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2007/05/30

Gestern abend ein letztes Mal im Crossclub gewesen und mich mit Fab, Vera, Martin&Marta, Lindsay und einigen weiteren Amerikanern im Morgengrauen rausschmeißen lassen, davor allerdings gute Debatten über Amerika, Europa, und Tschechien gehabt. Die Koffer sind einigermaßen gepackt, dank meinen … Continue reading

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