February 25, 2005
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so I was talking to Suzanna on IM today, and like most conversations we ended up talking about the weather, and me complaining that it was going to get really cold in my current room. So I took some photos to explain, here, here, and here. Then she asked me to zoom into the photos, here, here, here, and here. Then we began discussing photos and our inability to organize them into albums. Wouldn’t it be eery to put together someone’s life history based on a selection of their photos, even though you have never met them, or shared only a small part of their life.
February 17, 2005
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I too saw this webcast. It was a joy to listen to, and look forward to future webcasts like this. It’s nice to see Sun execs who can be open and honest about where they think the industry and Sun is going, communicate their beliefs well, and be inspiring at the same time. Ace.
February 14, 2005
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So, since Luis was successful about asking for artwork for the Live CD he’s creating, I thought I might try the blogging approach. I’m starting to write my GUADEC talk [101 Things to Know about GNOME], and I’m really struggling with Staroffice and it’s templates. Traditionally I’ve pinched the Sun corporate templates and modified them, but I’m slightly tired of this approach. Anyone keen on creating a generic GNOME Staroffice template? We badly need one for GNOME – and you could help! Email glynn[dot]foster[at]sun.com with your submissions!
February 13, 2005
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Having spent a large part of last week organizing some itinerary for linux.conf.au, raising an expense request and email exchange with a local travel agent, I find out that there’s a newly introduced travel ban in our group. Suck. Now to decide whether to fund my own way, or save just in case I need to fund myself to GUADEC in May.
Really pleased to see the GNOME contributors map.
Had a pretty good weekend. Headed out with a whole bunch of people on Friday night for a cheap chinese, and a couple of frames of pool at the local. Saturday was another cricket match between Weedons and Southbridge, which we won by 8 wickets – wahoo! Sunday was recovering from the pain of my muscles ceasing up. I badly need to get a bit more flexible and fitter.
Other notable milestones within the last few weeks – finished Half Life 2, started Doom 3 and joined the Skype hype. Looking forward to Tim & Bob [my brother and sister-in-law] and Mick [ex-flatmate and long time lord] visiting Christchurch in March.
