Older blog entries for Iain (starting at number 124)

When all things end, then you will see the point:

• I emptied my schoolbag today. I found a Mars bar I put in it during GUADEC. Thing is, I've had this bag with me every day since then, and I've not found it before.
• It's probably still edible
• Another reason for Student government: Year off university getting paid to do sweet FA. No-one votes in our elections. No-one I know or respect at least, and thats all that counts.
• Handed in Gonzo code today. Thats half of it out of the way, but I bet anything that it'll never work right.
• Report due next week. Tonight I'm going out! Oh yes I am.

Sex in a mixed up crazy kinda world:

• Xach: NME does that same blod thing in one of it's sections.EG:

  I saw that Robbie Williams out last night drinking with That Bird from Steps. Then he punched out Aiden, the soulful crooner from Arabstrap. Aiden was very drunk, so beat Robbie into a bloody Pulp

  I think it's a pisstake way of doing name dropping in text, at least thats what I always assummed.

• Meal didn't go great. :)
• Been doing some more work on the long forgotten GNOME-Iconedit. Making it into a MVC type arrangement. Quite a lot of stuff needs changed mind. MVC stuff seems like a smart way to do things anyway. Means I don't need my grid to know about the controls round the side, and the model doesn't care about how many things it has displaying it, execpt when there's 0 cos then it destroys itself. Bonobo here we come...

Words on a gravestone - I waited, but you never came:

• Mozilla works now. All I had to do was delete the .mozilla directory. I'd done it before, but it hadn't worked. Now it does. *shrug* Thanks duncan.
• This is what it looked like before the fix Eeeek
• This Sullivan chrome is lovely. I want someone to make a GTK theme out of it. And it seems lovely and fast too. Mozilla is getting quite cool now.
• I got up to 3200words done. I think thats 400 more. Plus I got a table of contents worked out, so all I have to do is put stuff into the \section parts now.
• I can work much faster in laTeX than in Word, once I know what the commands are.

The angels fly higher than you, and they can touch the stars:

• I want Sawmill's name to be changed to Snowman but it looks as though Sawdust will win. Sucky
• On the Gonzo front, the major hackjob is over, and things still work. Woohoo. Seems there's 4363 lines in it (including the lexer and yaccer), but that'll still make a thick code binder, cos I'll have to print out the Makefile, and as it's generated from Makefile.am it'll be huge :)
• Restarted the Bounce/resend fight on Evolution list. JWZ's argument is that it causes embarassing mistakes like people bouncing mails to the wrong person and things... `rm -rf *` causes embarassing mistakes, but no-one's making Redhat remove rm.
• Don't think my flatmate has taped the Great Muppet Caper. Oh well.
• Going to try to cook some chicken tonight: It's not going to work, but I've got it all ready...I even bought a frying pan for novelty fights.
• And for frying things too.
• Back to work on my report, see if I can get the word count up to >3000 by the time I leave in 2 and a half hours.

Up above the streets and houses, rainbow climbing high:

• Did a very vain thing and searched for my name in the gnome lxr. Found 2 places that I didn't know it was. Gdict and Nautilus. Apparently GDict has a patch I made once to explain how to pack boxes to someone, and they submitted it for me... and Nautilus has used gdk-pixbuf->png saving stuff from g-ie. Weird.

Being attractive is the most important thing there is. If you want to get the biggest fish in the pond, you have to be as attractive as possible:

• Kelly: I was!
• Started back on the eternal "GNOME upgrade cycle". Not having as much trouble as Kelly, but I think I had them when I was trying to get it to start working. Once you get all the dependancies out of the way, upgrading is a simple case of setting some envvars and doing ./autogen.sh --prefix=/opt/gnome.
• Writing comments in Gonzo. Managing to fill at least 5 lines at the start of each function. Then I have to split a 900line file into lots of little files. This means that each file needs an include file and a few lines of comments at the start. Wooooo, more lines that don't do anything, but make it look more impressive.
• It would be a nice day if it wasn't cloudy.
• Remembered that there's some #if 0'd code around the place. Should make it compile.
• Then I've got to remove all the errors, then a final bug check
• Then printing, and I'm all ready for the friday deadline.
• Then I've got a week to finish the report.
• <blink>I'M STRESSED!</blink>
• Exam worries are over however. Paul, Georges and I are all going to sit down and just revise everything together until we know it all. Sit and work through the practicals and nail everything. We've got it sussed.

It's a bit DIY:

• .org, .net, and .com all work. Weird.

Hi, my name is... Huh? My name is... Who? My name is... The Funk Soul Brother:

• Working on getting BTInternet working with Linux. Apparently I'll need WVDial, cos it makes it simple and I can't be arsed working with ppp-on scripts, etc...
• Watched the Muppet Movie. Sooooo funny. ANIMAL! ANIMAL! WOMAN!
• Apparently my project report reads fluidly. This is a good thing. Will do more work on it, cos it's at 2300 words, which is impressive.
• Bored.
• Can't wait for my exams/project stuff to be over, so I can get back to hacking on GNOME. So much stuff I want to do.

Life is unfair, Kill yourself or get over it:

• Jessica Simpson looks and sounds the same as Brittney Spears. Are we destined to have no originality ever again?
• On the same musical note Black Box Recorder (Creators of the classic line above), have managed to get a #20 in the charts and sound like the All Saints. This is also bad.
• The average person will have sex 2563 times before they die, and have 5 different partners.
• Good to see I'm keeping that average down.
• Another Advogato idea. People always are putting their currency amounts down and then in brackets the amount in US$. Maybe there could be options to specify your currency code, and then use <currency>100</currency> and when the diary is displayed the amount gets translated into whoever is reading it's correct amount. This would mean that the diary would have to be parsed as it was being written out, but I dunno how much of a change that would be.
• Got back okay. The journey wasn't too bad, I think it's just the anticipation of it that I hate.
• Overheard in the cornershop
  

  [Small boy aged 9 to shop assistant (age: about 22)]
  "You've got big jugs, can I call you Jugsy Malone."
  

• Jugs are slang for breasts. That might clear things up a bit. The shop girl wasn't too happy with the small child.

We're seeing other people, at least that's what we say we are doing:

• Not so depressed now. Quite cheery actually. It just went away.
• I like going back to university. Pretty girls hug you.
• They hug you when you come back too...
• Spent my plastic fiver. Damn.
• Parents are back from London. They bought me a chocolate car on a stick. MMMMmMMmmmmmmmchocolatecaronastaick
• Of course I've eaten it already