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*Sigh*. Just read the new stuff about the problems people have with the trust-metric system around here. I'm just hoping that people don't fall prey to slashdot syndrome, i.e. taking this too seriously. I think that advogato, (I keep *thinking* advogato, but my hands keep typing "avocado" :) is great, and the trust-metric system is quite interesting, but that none of it should be taken too seriously. I hack my projects because it gives me pleasure, and I hope other developers are doing their respective projects for the same reasons. Do you think Alan Cox or Miguel would quit hacking if all of a sudden they were rated as Apprentices tomorrow?

This type of problem makes me want to go back and reread the section of "Homesteading the Noosphere" that's about ego in developing. I've always thought that ego really doesn't play much of a part, but maybe I'm wrong about that. I hope I'm not.

Just getting into this whole diary thing - I think I'm probably going to be using Advogato more in the future, since it seems to have quite a few nice things in it.

Well, the project that I'm hacking on, GTKeyboard, just released version 0.98.5 which has made some large steps and fixed some very important bugs. The keyboard remapping feature actually works like it's supposed to if it's given a valid mapping file, and users can add new keyboard types on the fly, instead of having to compile them in like the old versions did.

Several people from different companies have approached me about hacking the program into something that can run on embedded systems like on LynxOS, for medical devices, and for other applications as well. I'm going to be working with them quite a bit in the future I would imagine. That is not a direction that I had considered when I started the project, but what the hell. The software is getting put to an interesting use, and the people inside the company are contributing code which they allow me to include in GTKeyboard under the GPL. It's also relatively good code...

Enough ranting for now...