Life is so good, it gets better every day

It’s Time to Play The Music, It’s Time to Light The Lights

John, you see I’d just call that a workaround, but everyone seems to have different ideas of what is best. I like the idea of having custom feeds, but then I guess you need a way to publish the various topics that you might write blog entries about, and with 1,000,000’s of people blogging you get a staggering encylopedia of words. Yes, I too am seeing the amazing parallels with American TV. Scarey.

RSS – Mostly Harmless

Both Alec and Alan commented on the potentially harmful use of RSS with people publishing the full content in the RSS feed, both with seemingly different use cases and it’s pretty obvious that no good approach to blogging has yet emerged, yet it feels like aggregators like PlanetGNOME, PlanetDebian and PlanetFedora have accelerated the use of blogging and information sharing.

The #1 Most Annoying Things About Blogs

Even though we now have wonderful sites like PlanetGNOME, PlanetDebian and PlanetSun [and an internal blogging site], we still have people being all rude and not publishing their entire blog entry in their RSS feed. It’s hugely infuriating having to click through to various blogs just to read them. Hopefully people are reading this and making suitable changes. Ahem.

GNOME API Documentation Openings

Keith Sharp posted an awesome summary of the state of GNOME API documentation. Looks like there’s still a bunch of work to be done getting it all up to speed for any keen people. Definitely one of the better places to get started, as it’s a good way of learning the APIs by documenting them.

Planet Sun

Holy fucking shit no way! Planet Sun. Rocking stuff! Totally awesome to see other Sun dudes blogging in public.

It Was The Start Of The Summer

Some Time Later

Had an awesome time in Perth with Domhnall. The Counting Crows concert really rocked – it was good to see them again, and we were fortunate enough to catch them before they cancelled the tour [Adam had a seriously bad run of luck]. We hired a car and headed south for a bunch of climbing – everything from granite sea cliffs, limestone sport crag, slab off-routing to beach bouldering.

Bin 333

We had a pretty good St.Patrick’s day, going out to The Bog where there was live music out back. After a few rather sorry looking attempts at Guinness and a bit of craic it was over for another year.

Auckland And The Needle Of Death

XORG Foundation

I’ve been following the arch and foundation mailing lists for the past few weeks, and it’s very reassuring to see progress being made on that front. It’s even more encouraging to see Jim plugging the GNOME Foundation and membership structure. A while back when there was a heated discussion on the foundation about the membership policy, I initally didn’t agree with Nat’s proposal to open things up. I definitely think it’s a good idea now, and has worked out well in the last couple of months, having monitored the membership committee mailing list as a board rep. Sure, we’ll still probably result in low turn outs in the various elections [we were getting them before the policy as well], but it seems to give people a good sense of being, and community spirit by being a GNOME Foundation Member. We are definitely one of the top free software projects in this field.