Tue 02 Sep 2003

  • Milestone: In case you missed it, James just released gnome-python 2.0.0. This is a major piece of software, and James should be greatly commended for his tireless work. GTK+/Python is a really, really nice combination. I don’t regret us standardizing it at Red Hat at all.

Sun 31 Aug 2003

  • GNOME Lore: Apparently not everyone in the GNOME project knows what a Soptimization is. It’s a %0.001 speed up of code at the extreme cost of readability.

  • Bookworm: Elliot Lee’s wonderful db to Python class code is really making this easy to write. I’m almost at the point where I can make a semi-public release. I might even post screenshots.

Mon 25 Aug 2003

  • GNOME: Had a surprisingly productive day building packages. Libtool still makes me contemplate taking up self-flagellation as a hobby, though.

  • Maintenance: I had to leave work a bit early to get my car from the repair shop. A gasket in the oil tank started leaking. As is typical with the problems with cars, it was $15 to get a replacement part and $250 to install it.

  • Bookworm: With the house much more under control, I’m back to working on Bookworm again. I’m really not happy with the interface, but it’s functional. A surprisingly large number of people (like three) have asked for it recently, so I am going to try to get it somewhat usable. I had an enjoyable discussion with Seth about the nature of Assistants, and how they should work in GNOME.

Thu 21 Aug 2003

  • life: I got this nugget from Seth on irc today:

    seth> Jrb: but seriously, if you haven’t tried answering desktop-devel mail from a rowboat drifting through the night you have yet to live

  • life: I fear, by that definition, I’m living it up.

Thu 14 Aug 2003

  • meta (ChangeLog): With some help from James Henstridge, I changed the way I generate the html for this site. He wrote a nifty python iterator that reads a ChangeLog file and yields its constituent parts. This made it much easier (and cleaner) to create the html. Also, as it’s the trendy thing to do, I now have an rss feed at http://webwynk.net/jrb/ChangeLog.rss

  • meta (webwynk.net): I could not get DSL at my new house, so am stuck connecting to the Internet over a cable modem. I’m not really happy with this and miss Speakeasy. The cable modem has terrible upload bandwidth, though download seems to be faster than my old connection ever was. The biggest downside thus far, is that I can’t host content reliably on my server anymore. I’ve had to move a lot of the services at webwynk.net to pair.com. We’ll see how that works out over the long run.

Wed 13 Aug 2003

  • Moving: Trying to put all the pieces of my life back together after the movers managed to spread them all over the new house. Lots of things went wrong. Lots of things went right. When all is said and done, I love the house and being back in New England. One thing that didn’t go so well was how the Mortgage turned out. I was very disappointed with the Walden Mortgage company of Concord, MA. If anyone is in the market for a loan in that area, I would not recommend them.

  • GNOME: I am also really enjoying back in the swing of things with GNOME. I’ve finally gotten the control-center back somewhat under control. It sounds like a broken record, but I really need to get a good chunk of it cleaner for 2.6. Mime-system, here we come…

  • Trips: I won two free tickets to anywhere in the continental North America in the company raffle. As I need to travel soon, I’m planning on going to visit Federico for a couple days. Should be a lot of fun. I’ve never seen Mexico City before — I’m quite psyched!