Some highlighs from LWE:
mathieu, the correct term is "Darinate", not "Darinify". As in "I sure got Darinated today" or "could someone Darinate my code please?"
hacking
The Nautilus tree view should be quite nice now. In fact, it seems a lot faster than the tree or list views. But then, the code is much simpler.
Please, please add some info about what free software projects you are involved in, and how. It makes it much easier to certify you. I promise to give anyone who puts project info and asks me at least an Apprentice rating.
hacking
I finished doing a bunch of medusa stuff to make it more usable for other hackers at Eazel; hopefully the search feature will progress faster now.
weekend
Well, the party on Friday was pretty cool. We started out with a bath tub full of beer bottles in ice water and ended up with an empty bathtub. That was scary. Many cool people came. On Saturday, I went with Steph, Rebecca, Arlo and some other folks to The Tonga Room, an amusing tiki bar in San Francisco. Those umbrella drinks pack a hell of a punch. I also got stood up for a date this Sunday, but it has been rescheduled now, and the other party provided a decent excuse.
We are now officially in "crunch mode" at Eazel, heading towards the feature-complete milestone. I will probably post a bit less often.
certifying the `rms' account
ncm comments about this. I certified it, even though I am reasonably sure it is not actually Richard M. Stallman. I did it because whether or not the account is real, RMS himself deserves props.
I guess this creates the minor possibility that someone might try to use the account to impersonate RMS and say things he wouldn't say, but that has not happened yet.
rating accuracy
I think some rankings are probably inflated. However, this is a natural result of the fact that anyone with a Master rating can singlehandedly make someone else a Master. This means even a few people excercising poor judgement can throw a lot of noise into the system. I try to be very careful not to over-certify people, although I think sometimes I go overboard, and don't give people a Master rating just because I think others might not think they deserve it.
I missed having home networking so much. I'm all verklempt.
I continue to be astounded by the variety of good food to be found around where I live. I had some good Cuban food today.
It's now possible to display medusa search results in Nautilus. This is really sweet. nullity and rebecka are working on some extra code that will make this work really well. Medusa needs polish in many areas, but it's turning out pretty nicely. I'm now working on model/view separation for the tree view, which will enable it to work much more nicely.
personal
I'm really sick and as a result missing the O'Reilley Open Source conference. I also feel kind of weird about life. Pretty much everything is going well for me but I still feel a constant vague sense of dissatisfaction. Maybe that's just how things are.
Seth and I have almost completed a gnome-vfs search module for medusa. I was a bit annoyed at Darin for flip-flopping on the feasibility of this, but in the end I had to admit it was the right thing to do, and a tasty way to do it. We hacked a fucking amazing amount of code that almost even works, actually, all in one day.
party
eskil, stephane and I, with special guests mathieu and vicious, are having a housewarming party at 8 PM on Friday, July 28 at 291 Castro St, San Francisco, CA. Anyone who reads this and can make it is welcome to come. :-)
Mathieu is here and staying at me and eskil's and steph's place. I am also supervising him during his Eazel internship. He seems to be getting up to speed pretty well.
New HTML Parser: The long-awaited libxml2 based HTML parser code is live. It needs further work but already handles most markup better than the original parser.
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