Advogato blog for campd

22 Jan 2003

Wed, 22 Jan 2003 23:42:16 GMT

I started a weblog thingy at http://primates.ximian.com/~dave/log/

But I'll probably neglect it as much as I've neglected this one.

13 Nov 2002

Wed, 13 Nov 2002 18:44:58 GMT

Deliverance, Deliverance
Thrown back at me
Deliverance, Deliverance
Laughing at me

I just got Opeth's new album, "Deliverance". It's excellent.

6 Jul 2002

Sat, 6 Jul 2002 02:50:23 GMT

kbreit: You misunderstood what I told you. Pango doesn't *have* ellipsizing code that I'm aware of. I was referring to the eel ellipsizing code, which isn't particularly crappy, it's just expensive. And I didn't say I was going to "refuse" to put anything into nautilus. I just said that the particular thing I was playing with that morning was nowhere near done or ready or anything like that. (but yeah, stretched icons make a simple grid a bit tougher)

In general, I'd appreciate it if you don't repeat my brain dumps in public forums. I tend to brainstorm out loud, and it causes problems if that is repeated as my opinion, or even worse as fact.

8 Jun 2002

Sat, 8 Jun 2002 04:51:13 GMT

kbreit: I didn't say that! You are lying! Clearly this is libel! I am angry! I'm going to have to sue you. This is clearly out of hand and I won't stand for it.

Ahem.

5 Jun 2002

Wed, 5 Jun 2002 03:58:27 GMT

kbreit: did it occur to you that you *did* miss the 6:52 bus, and then got the next bus? The buses come a bit early sometimes

22 Jan 2002

Tue, 22 Jan 2002 22:34:43 GMT

I'm still in mexico. I head back tomorrow.

For some reason I'm in a really bad mood. It isn't fun.

19 Jan 2002

Sat, 19 Jan 2002 22:18:03 GMT

Mexico

Right now I'm in mexico working with the ximian hackers here. I'm staying at Federico's place. It's all very nice. The food is excellent and the people are great to work with.

I saw Lord of the Rings yesterday. The scenery was amazing. I had a bit of a problem with actor associations ("Magneto is talking to Agent Smith while Satan from The Prophecy and the Aerosmith girl are having a touching moment,"), but other than that it was really good. After the show federico took this slightly embarassing picture.

Other Stuff

I'm working on porting anjuta2 to gnome2. I've mostly finished with it, but I've been reworking little pieces of it here and there, so I haven't gotten around to committing anything. There's a screenshot here though.

Work on the structure browser has slowed down a bit, because I've been busy with other things. There's a screenshot of that here.

I've also been doing a lot of drawing. I've ended up with this and this.

24 Dec 2001

Mon, 24 Dec 2001 17:03:50 GMT

Argh. As I was working on the structure browser last night, my laptop decided to ignore the AC power and started running on batteries. I couldn't convince the laptop to acknowledge the existence of the power cord.

So I'm basically laptopless for the rest of this vacation.

24 Dec 2001

Mon, 24 Dec 2001 02:47:37 GMT

I'm taking a couple weeks off for christmas. I've been at my parents' house in McCloud for a bit over a week now.

I've been using the time off to do some anjuta2 (formerly gIDE) work. I've been working on the debugger (gnome-debug), and have ended up almost completely rewriting it. I took this opportunity to move gnome-debug over to gnome2. I pretty much agree with what trow says about gnome2.

gnome-debug isn't the only anjuta2 component moving to gnome2. Gustavo has committed an initial port of gdl. When I get back to boston, I plan to start porting anjuta2 itself.

At the moment I'm working on a ddd-style structure browsing widget. I think it will be useful for things other than the debugging display. We'll see. I'll have screenshots next time I have a network connection on my laptop.

13 Sep 2001

Thu, 13 Sep 2001 13:03:44 GMT

yakk: No. I'm not talking about the USA. I'm not talking about some abstract "Attack on America". I'm talking about someone slamming a plane into a building full of unexpecting innocents that had no desire to be caught up in their conflict. There is no bravery in slaughter.