Recently I tried Initng on my Ubuntu distribution using some handy pages from the Ubuntu forums.
To say the least, I was amazed.
My boot time on Ubuntu Breezy was 58 seconds and now it is 29 seconds (that is from Grub to GDM).
Give it a try, there are only a few steps to follow, it takes 5 minutes.
WOW: Things have just been racing ahead so fast this year.
The Imendians are such a cool bunch!
I just got back from Stockholm where the Imendians got together for a conference. Amongst all this we got to do some fishing (which was a first for many of us) and I caught my first fish too. All in all a Superb experience!
I received my Nokia 770 this morning from the random selection at GUADEC. It is very cool and I can’t stop using it (neither can Sue stop using it for Ebay!).
Goodbye
Hej
We have finally done it!
After being together for over 9 years, we managed to marry yesterday.
As I was the groom I haven’t taken any pictures, but many guests and friends have.
I will be posting the images in my gallery in the coming weeks.
For the time being here is one of us together at the wedding reception:
New Release – Today Mikael and I released Gossip 0.9. After a large refactor of the foundation code, further development has been made easier and overall we feel it is much more stable. It has been some time since the last release back in December last year.
There have been many changes, some of these include:
– A spell checker
– Updated contact information dialog
– Much better Drag & Drop usage
Generally just more polish everywhere 
I have been working on getting multiple accounts working again in Gossip since the refactoring. Some of this work will be in CVS very shortly. I have taken things a bit further this time by actually allowing the user to select which account they do certain actions from:
Wedding – Things are heating up with only 3 weeks to go.
Sue had her Hen night lastnight. The girls really do know how to have fun, you just have to look at their costumes on the night and all the party things they bring back home with them.
My stag do is this weekend coming, should be a good fun, I tried to arrange it for the night before the wedding but Sue threatened to call it off
Gallery Update – I updated my gallery to include images from recent trips to Bressingham Steam & Gardens and todays trip to Framlingham Castle. Considering the weather on the trip to Bressingham was a little dull, I am surprised the photos came out so well.
Google Maps API – I saw some of the potential of this with what Ross did here. I love it. Someone pointed out to me the other day that Multimap show the ordinance survey over the top of an aerial view when moving the mouse over an area. – That is quite impressive too.
Live8 – So this was MASSIVE. I saw a lot of it on TV yesterday and in particular thought that the Pink Floyd’s performance was awesome, especially since they have not been together for the last 24 odd years!
My partner Sue had tickets to go and I opted out because my best mate was in town from Scotland. Kind of wished I had arranged it another weekend now. We didn’t plan the tickets, we were given them last minute!
I didn’t realise how big the whole Live8 deal was until I watched in on BBC1 and realised how many countries were involved.
If you support the cause, show your support here and add your name to the millions. I think the target is atleast 1 billion names.
Thanks to Ross (for knocking it up) I now have a face to my blog!
GUADEC Photos – So Ross managed to capture my evil twin at the GUADEC party standing next to Dave Malcolm (who looks worse for ware) 
Some of the photos showing up post-GUADEC are cool. It is a shame Mikael and I didn’t have a camera to capture Glynn running from the German police at the end of the party really – when you got to go, you’ve got to go!
libtool on Windows – So I have been trying to get libltdl work on Windows to automatically load libraries at runtime for plugin support. This stuff is not nice, I was trying to use libltdl from a library and found out that you can’t do that until v2.0 of libtool (on Windows) and that there are problems particularly with MSYS. It is all going now, I had to use libltdl from an executable instead. Thankfully, after speaking to Tor at the GUADEC party, he told me about libtool-cache which speeds things up considerably. This is really needed since creating processes on Windows is expensive and given the number of times that happens when using GNU’s auto tools you can imagine how slow things get 
Blog move – Jeff has now moved my blog over from Advogato onto planet.gnome.org, cheers dude
GUADEC – So my first year at GUADEC was so amazing. Had a superb time. Some of the talks I found especially interesting, cool and funny were:
– Robert’s talk about Gnome, memory, and some new kernel abilities we should be using
– Owen’s talk about Cario
– Nat’s lightning talks
– Glynn’s 101 things to know about Gnome.
So I met so many really cool hackers at GUADEC this year and as Ross points out, Bastien needs a new hackergotchi. I like Ross’s knocked up replacement – it seems much more fitting
I need a hackergotchi – perhaps you could do the honors Ross?
Also, managed to bag a Nokia 770 – they are uber cool!
While at the GUADEC, I managed to get some bugs fixed during the hackfest too. Overall a wiked conference.
Gnome Bounties – Good news about Google splashing out for Gnome bounties.
