Sat 17 Mar 2001

  • Hacking (AisleRiot2): Did work on masks. I also realized I’m going to have to do this an inefficient way, in order to get the antialiased effect correct. I wonder if there’s anything wrong with having a widget with shaped windows as it’s window.

  • Food (dinner): Mama Dips with Zana, Havoc, Amy and Owen. I had fried catfish bones with some meat attached. Eating was an adventure.

  • Beer: Got a bad bottle of New Castle tonight. It is making me sick. )-:

  • Boomers: A friend of mine had a really bad day. He has a cool website though: http://www.bitwaste.com/

Fri 16 Mar 2001

  • Dates: Yesterday was pi day. Zana and I celebrated by watching Pi, and Eating Pie (peach and sweet potato). Today was the Ides of March. We watched ‘the Cell’, which was better than I thought it was going to be (and had heard.)

  • Hacking (GtkTreeView): Did more work on keyboard navigation. Put up a screenshot here: http://webwynk.net/~jrb/files/halmark.png

  • Hacking (piano): My Mussorgsky finally arrived. I am indeed a hack.

Wed 14 Mar 2001

  • Laptop: My laptop arrived!!!! Woo hoo hoo. Repartitioned it to add a wintendo partition, but it mostly works. Then I tried to install network drivers for the pcmcia card I have for Windows. That was a total disaster. I think I’ll have to reinstall it tomorrow. It was nice getting a laptop from dell to arrive with RH7 preinstalled though.

  • Laptop (ximian): Tried installing ximian GNOME last night. Somehow, it downloaded a bad gimp-devel package, which then put the install in an infinite loop (apparently it spent all night reinstalling the same 120 packages or so.) This morning, nothing gnome related would work. A ‘rpm –rebuilddb’ and a ‘rpm -Uvh –force /var/cache/helix-install/*rpm’ seems to have fixed it all up, but it was pretty bizarre.

  • Games (alpha centauri): Stupid game… Eating up all my evening like that.

  • food (lunch): Went with Zana for Sushi. I’ve never had warm sushi before. I don’t think sushi is supposed to be warm. I don’t think I’ll be going back there any time soon.

  • Eazel: That sucks. I hope most of you guys will be able to get another job soon, and those who were starting to feel part of the GNOME community will still feel welcome.

Sat 10 Mar 2001

  • hacking (AisleRiot): I finally bugged itp enough to make him make a gnome-games release. Next, I need to bug him to capitalize AisleRiot correctly…

  • hacking (AisleRiot2): you can now move cards onto slots, and reveal hidden cards. Next — animations.

  • hacking (GtkTreeView): Spent the day fixing a bunch of little bugs, and talking to TimJ about how to handle values better. Other then that, I’m basically down to two big API changes left in the tree — the sort model rewrite, and the focus changes. I should be done with both by GUADEC.

  • food (dinner): Went to the Carolina Coffee house and had a very flat beer. The waiter never refilled Zana’s sweet tea either. Normally the food is better then that. Disappointing.

  • car: My car seems to be falling apart. I need to get it cleaned and serviced sometime soon.

Fri 09 Mar 2001

  • cooking: Made Quesadillas for dinner with homemade guacamole. It was yummy, despite the fact that Food Lion sold me cheese past its expiration date.

  • hacking: Spent too much time playing Fortress and not enough time working on it these last coupla days. I need to put some serious effort in it this weekend.

  • Nothing: Dang is it loud. Definately need noise mufflers or something…

  • hacking (GtkTreeView): Had a very productive day avoiding working on the keyboard navigation code. Fixed a lot of small bugs that have need doing for a while. I’ll get back to navigation tomorrow.

  • Table Tennis: Owen is getting better at this game faster then I am. Time to put in some extra training time.

Mon 05 Mar 2001

  • Nothing: Transplanted in Havoc’s old motherboard. Now it has gone from an old P200 to a Dual Celeron 400. It is noticeably faster, and makes life much nicer. Thanks Havoc! Only problem is, it sounds like an airplane. I need to buy some big ‘ol heat sinks or quieter fans.

  • Folliage: Our Neighbors tree finally fell down. I was expecting to hear it when it fell, but it was just lying on the ground this morning. “Where’s the Earth shattering Kaboom!”