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On the fifth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me...
Five transparent things,
Four #gnome nerds,
Three PayPal friends,
Two FIXED bugs
And GNOME with a rocking metacity.

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On the fourth day of Christmas, my true love sent to me...
Four #gnome nerds,
Three PayPal friends,
Two FIXED bugs
and GNOME with a rocking metacity.

o/~"

On the third day of Christmas, my true love sent to me...
Three PayPal friends,
Two FIXED bugs
and GNOME with a rocking metacity.

o/~"

On the second day of Christmas, my true love sent to me...
Two FIXED bugs,
and GNOME with a rocking metacity.

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On the first day of Christmas, my true love sent to me...
GNOME with a rocking metacity.

It was a strange day yesterday.

Started off with a mild hangover.

Then wandered up to see my grandpa and grandma's grave. It's not something I would really do very often. In fact I have only vague memories of being there more than 15 years ago. I'm surprised I was even able to find it. All I remember was it being beside a large tree. There were quite a few trees though. The first thing that hit me was the intense silence. Very soothing. Very humbling.

Then went to the pub to meet up with some friends I had not seen for more than a month. Had 3 pints.

Arrived to Katie's place slightly drunk. She commented on me chewing mint gum. We wandered into town and then looked for a Tapas bar. A Tapas bar in Dublin seemed a little odd to me. We temporarily didn't find it. Went into the Irish Tourist Office. Ticket 89. Found out where to go soon after.

Sat down to a nice meal of fish cakes with a kind of mustardy sauce, cous cous with a chilli jam and some mixed olives. Lovely bottle of chilean white wine.

Then to the pub for another pint or two.

Maybe it was just 'interesting'.

jdub: speech! speech!

It seems like ages since I've written. It's not that anything terribly exciting has happened.

Tonight I found myself in the middle of Oktoberfest in the Porterhouse. I had great fun trying out 4 dark beers and 1 lager. I think I got pretty drunk.

I've been pretty unmotivated for work recently. I'm supposed to be fixing bugs. My bug ratio is looking pretty unhealthy recently though.

I heard my friends are planning a trip to Amsterdam - I'm pretty excited about this. I hope they invite me. It would be good to get out there.

A lot of things are happening within GNOME - it's hard to keep in touch with everything. I think I feel a little out of touch - release team stuff slipping, mailing list stuff slipping, gnome-utils maintainership stuff slipping, ex-membership stuff slipping....

and then I begin to wonder if I'm in touch with reality...

and then I remember that I'm finally in touch with climbing........

and sometimes....just almost.....life....

Had a pretty super time in El Chorro, with 14 wonderful people...and rather strangely, I've missed their company since I've got back.

Definitely feeling in limbo land still, despite the best efforts of my manager who has decided that it's about time that each of the Sun team starts getting bugs assigned to them.

The first of the beta/development releases for GNOME 2.2 got released yesterday, with the release name '88 MPH' - not entirely sure where jdub got this one from, but it seems to suit the rate of development and excitement that is slowly gaining.

It's nice to see that people are getting excited about 2.2, especially since GNOME 2.0 was such a long rollercoaster ride, and we have only Jeff to thank for that for his continuous motivation. I'm not entirely sure how he manages to stay a shiny happy person 99% of the time, maybe it's the drugs, but without him I know we'd be surely worse off.

Jeff, thank you.

It's been a pretty busy week or two although getting that 'phased out' feeling again of not really being motivated/involved enough.

We've been working on a demo for Sun Networks that involves creating a nice new theme for the desktop. It's coming along quite nicely and hopefully this will sprout out some passion into getting the rest of the desktop into a slightly friendlier shape than we're currently releasing as a beta product. Unfortunately, I missed out on a trip to the US for the conference as it conflicted somewhat with my holiday plans.

To help out, I decided that a new Metacity theme document would be useful - although I ended up not implementing the final theme :/

Off to Fontainbleau tommorrow for some bouldering - should prove to be a wonderful trip. Then back to a busy week, with a trip to Ireland from Tim Ney in the middle of the chaos. Then off to El Chorro for a weeks sport climbing. It will be nice to get away.

On top of this, I'm desperately pushing for Sun to send me to the US to live there for a month so I can work with some of the other teams to improve communication - maybe this could be part of the Sun ONE thing ;)