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Wow, one year and a half without any entry in this public place. I'm still maintaining my private diary, but since people complained I wasn't updating this one, here are some news: I now live in Paris, somewhere between Tour Eiffel and Arc de Triomphe. Cute place. Still haven't got my diploma, but everything should be finished on Tuesday. Ex-gf going out with absolute moron, which should theoretically suck generous amounts of raw eggs, but actually I don't care. Going to ride da world on a snowboard in 2 weeks. ph34r! And if everything goes well I'll start my PhD in less than two months. ph34r t00!

Going to FOSDEM tomorrow. Coding. Drinking beer. Making fun of RMS. Giving my GPG fingerprint to people I'll never ever see again. Drinking beer. Bwahahahaha.

I closed 22 of my Debian bugs tonight. I should be happy, but since some of them were more than one year old I think I probably deserve a kick in the butt instead...

VLC 0.5.0 is out, and it's awesome. Shitloads of new codecs, DVD navigation, support for transcoding, remultiplexing, remulticasting, an UGLY METAL SKIN on OS X (because Steve said metal was good), a thread-safe Mozilla plugin, and it even works under retarded systems like BeOS, Hurd and WinCE. Cool.

Been pretty busy with real life stuff... not much hacking lately :-(

Got the flu. But apart from that, life definitely rocks.

Hahahaha ! Sheets !! On my bed ! Life is beautiful.

LSM nightmare: I missed my train yesterday, and there were no more non-smoking seats on the next one. The trip was awful, hot and smoky. And of course, at my arrival at Bordeaux there were no more buses, so I had to take a taxi but there were at least 50 people waiting for a taxi, so I had to walk a bit before finding one. Then I discovered there were no sheets on my bed. Then I discovered there were no open restaurants in the area. Then I discovered my bag had experienced a shower gel incident during the trip, which means I won't probably be able to take any photos from the event, since my digital camera suffered a bit. And of course, it could have got even worse on the personal side (and it actually has). What a great day!

Debian: met a few other Debian developers at LSM. It's always nice to associate faces with IRC nicks.

Personal rant: huge and canard suck raw eggs. Especially huge.

I'm away. See you at the LSM.

Wow, much ado about libdvdcss. Not that I complain, but it wasn't probably worth a /. story. At least one guy definitely made my day.

Hacking: released libdvdcss today. It's a cross-platform library for accessing DVDs and doing CSS decryption on the fly (without having to bother with DVD authentication, which everyone does wrong anyway). Works under Windows, but also Linux, FreeBSD and BeOS. So long for the MPAA.

Work: had a cool plan for a game coding summer job, but the guy hasn't answered my mail yet. Grmbl.

Life: talked to a girl yesterday. That was cool.

Advogato: eek, almost 2 months without a diary entry. Sorry, I'll try to be more serious.

LinuxTag: grrrrr! Why did they have to choose the same date as the Libre Software Meeting? There are few chances I'll go to LinuxTag then :(

Hacking: trying to profile software. So far only gprof has been working for me (I couldn't get any copy of Corel's cprof, probably a Microsoft conspiration, and couldn't get oprofile to work on my kernel). Everyone told me gprof didn't work with multithreaded code, but after a little research I found some information on how to do it, and wrote a little "gprof with multithreaded applications HOWTO".