Jonathan Blandford

Tue 03 Jun 2003

Life: We now tentatively have a house in Massachusetts. We’ll be moving up there after GU4DEC. It should be a lot of fun to be there, though the moving will be rough.
TV: I think my current favorite show on TV is Boomtown. It may be just because I grew up in LA and thus is more familiar to me than Law and Order is, but it is a much fresher show to me.
GNOME: I’m getting back into the swing of things after a little down time. I committed a pretty good set of changes today. And more importantly, I didn’t commit another change which would have broken sorting in the GtkTreeModelSort.

house: That didn’t take too long. We accepted a bid on our house with a move date of July 3rd. That gives us about six weeks to pack and find a house. We are amazingly unprepared for the move.

house: Zana and I finally got our house on the market. It’s taken quite a bit of time to prepare it, and it’s a lot of energy to keep it clean enough for visitors. I’ll be glad when the selling process is finally done.

unneeded editorials: Apparently livejournal’s spell checker wants to replace every instance of ‘GtkTreeView’ with ‘catastrophe’.

show: I’m joining the ranks of people who feel guilty about not watching “Sports Night” when it was on the air. I love this show!

movie: Watched Network. Seems very apropos. “This tube is the most awesome goddamn propaganda force in the whole godless world.” All the news reports discussed trouble in the Middle East.

GTK+: Spent a couple days this week getting the GtkTreeView to work in a RTL locale. It was the last major widget in need of support added – though it showed some RTL bugs in other widgets. As an added bonus, I also got column expanding working, which should make Seth very happy. I’m pretty excited at how well it worked, though we need to do a bit more work to be fully RTL compliant. It would be a good target for 2.4.
Mime: I’m now tasked with fixing the mime-system in GNOME. fun.
Life: Had a very pleasant day with Rosanna. We went on a walk with the dog down the Bolin Creek trail. It was a wonderful 60 degrees outside, and though it kept threatening to rain, it never quite did. It was a good change from ice storms. We also saw some bird houses painted Carolina blue. Zana correctly guessed they were Eastern Bluebird houses. Two points to her. We ended up walking to Cafe Driade along the way. They have simply the best Cappucino in the Chapel Hill area.