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The Fourth

4th of July in Boston was somewhat interesting. I went to a coworker's apartment and watched the fireworks from the roof. The photos turned out better than I was expecting.

Relaxing

I've been spending a lot of time playing games lately. My newly-purchased GameCube, Neverwinter Nights, and now WarCraft III have all contributed greatly to this latest game splurge. I think that after not gaming for so long, it's ok that I'm doing so much now.

I'm still trying to learn how to relax again. I spent the entire school year under pressure and spent few moments without anxiety. The sermon today was about exactly that, and I thought the priest did a very good job (especially since it's a pretty common complaint about today's society: little rest, must produce). He said one of the main things we need to do is figure out exactly what our priorities are. In order to do that, I feel I need to learn how to relax first, otherwise my priorities will probably be wrong.

I can only take so much gaming, however, and will probably return to doing some Gabber stuff in a few days (maybe more, since I'm going to be returning to work tomorrow).

GNOME Summit

Well, I'm in Boston. I certainly hope I'll be able to meet all of these people whose nicknames I know. If you're interesting in meeting up with me sometime, please let me know. Since I'm trying to relax, I have absolutely nothing to do. I'll take off work to meet people, I don't care :)

So I'm starting to get into a routine now and Boston feels like home again. All-in-all, I like Boston. I definitely want to live in a city for a while. I spent too much time in the middle of nowhere. I think I will eventually want to return to the suburbs, though. Just not yet.

I want to do something different. Just looking at the feature requests for Gabber is starting to sicken me. The usual thing for a Linux program to do is to become the combination of every similar piece of software from every single platform you can imagine.

That's not what I want Gabber2 to be. I'm going to spend some time trying to come up with very interesting and different things to do with Jabber. "Jabber is more than just IM" is the popular quote of the year. I hope to prove that in Gabber2. Unfortunately, at IBM I have seen some really cool things to do with pub/sub that I would love to implement in Gabber. But as always, the big corporation is not the friend of freedom. I hope the few people that are helping me with Gabber will come up with the same ideas.

GNOME 2.0 is pretty nice, but there are a lot of nitpicky things that annoy me. Some day I'm going to spend the entire day writing bug reports and patches for the little things that annoy me. And I'm going to fix the HIG.

Yey! GNOME 2.0

gman: I know what you mean...

Turned 18 yesterday. Filed the registration for the selective service...

Temas has been granted the ability to work on GNOME/Jabber stuff for Jabber, Inc. I foresee us working together on something useful in the near future...

GNOME2 is looking pretty good. I'm kind of pissed about the lack of spacing/layout rules (well, there are some, but they're contradictory and no one follows them). I plan on working on that a little.

And thus I finish high school with a 3.7. Good enough.

My dad and I installed the Triton Labs Afterburner backlight (technically a front light mounted inside) in my glacier Game Boy Advance. It was a lot harder than I thought it would be.... mostly because x-acto knives really do suck (I should've listened and used a dremel) -- I also managed to get a fairly sizable speck of dust stuck in there. Other than that, I'm pretty pleased with it. I'll post links to pictures tomorrow.

mikeszcz discovered this review of the Matrox G450 under Linux which features a screen shot including Gabber. What's amazing is that this screen shot was taking in September of 2000. This was back when not only did transports use the aim.jabber.com/registered?name= form, but Gabber had a bug where it actually displayed that full JabberID. What's even more amazing than the fact that someone was using Gabber then is that I have no idea who this guy is. Most of the time, when I see Gabber shots, they're usually from people I know... or people who people I know know. That is quite a feat, and I commend Mike for such a find.

Ah. Busy not going to the prom. Blah :(

And like that... it's over?