So, finally got the teletekst thingie working for python 2.2, 2.3 and 2.4. Hurrah. The weird thing is that I don't actually understand what caused it suddenly to work... hmmm...

Of course I am writing way to much about such a pathetic litle program. But I like it anyway, and so do the users. And while having little available time, for me it's still providing me with the free software feeling - that is, getting suggestions, bug reports, thank-yous and flames from users, and even patches! So I try to keep momentum and enthusiasm by quickly respoding, and thanking people for their contributions.

I have to admit that I prefer the little-work-high-visibility projects; but those are important too :-) And I try to make my program attractive to normal users, to Just Work. It's hard for hackers to think like that, because we are not normal users. At least not of our own programs.

Example: last weekend, I wanted to make a little video with Kino, a nice video editor, surprisingly (considering the name!) a GNOME app. Well, it *can't* load MPG-files; I first need to convert my homemade pr0n to 'dv' files using ffmpeg by hand. Now, for every time your GUI program requires the command-line, you loose about 75% of the audience. [And yes, I am sure the CVS-version does this automagically...]. I must say, apart from this - Kino is really nice, and the best of breed on Linux AFAIK.