Jonathan Blandford

Wed 19 Jul 2006

cairo: What an excellent dockudrama! Or maybe it’s just a dockumentary..
cairo (two): That post does point out akamaru, written by Kristian Högsberg. It’s a pretty nifty little physics model written with cairo. I don’t know how practical it is, but it’s pretty fun to play with.
passings: It was sad to see that György Ligetti died today. RIP.

presents: Sometimes the dog decides to bring me a present. Tonight, it was a very dead bird at two in the morning…

whoops: Things you don’t want to hear your plumber say:

“Can you run downstairs really fast and make sure that there’s no water coming out of the ceiling. I’m not kidding!”
SoC: We ended up getting some excellent Summer of Code applicants this year. I’m mentoring the forms in evince project. It looks like it will be a lot of fun to complete. Over all, there were three SOC projects accepted to work on poppler. Two were in the GNOME camp, and one was a KDE project, and all three require modifying the PDF file.

back to work: I have 1309 unread messages in my inbox. If one of them is yours, please be patient. I’ll try to get to it soon.

Eleanor: Eleanor’s stub fell off today! That means that she now has a belly button, and more importantly, can now graduate to the (better fitting) size one diapers. She is also gaining weight well, and is past her birthweight.

Also, she is wide awake right now. I hope she can sleep tonight.
SOC: There is less than a day left to get your summer of code proposal in. See the timeline here, and submit if you want to participate. We have a good list so far, but there’s always room for more.

life: Eleanor is now over a week old, and is absolutely perfect! She has even started to sleep a little longer at night. Unfortunately for us, night for her seems to be from eight PM through four AM. Still, she is developing well and is gaining weight.
httpd: Every time I touch mod_rewrite, I end up regretting it.
printing: I saw that John did an initial port of gedit to the new printing work in GTK+. It didn’t look too painful all things considering, and I hope that other projects will also take the time to try the port.
evince: I got a pretty enthusiastic proposal to do an evince SoC project. They wanted to tackle annotations and implement bookmarks, along the lines of the mockup Bryan and Diana did last summer. Hopefully it well be accepted.
/nick: jrb_afk is now known as jrb_tired

life: Eleanor Kathleen Blandford was born yesterday at 5:40 PM, EDT. She weighed seven pounds, twelve ounces. Both mother and daughter are doing well.

meta: Again, a long time between updates. This time, it’s because I moved blogging software again. Instead of my own, crufty, home-grown software, I decided to use Federico‘s home-grown, crufty software. But Federico’s uses emacs, which gives it pretty good style points.