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jlbec: That would be because the people the IRA fighting are at the negotiating table. It looks like the British government has realised that it takes more than simply a military strategy to combat domestic terror. This is good news. I'm glad the situation in Israel / Palestine is looking a bit more optimistic this week than it was a week ago. People are talking a little... We've still all got to keep hoping, praying, sacrificing lifestock, or whatever we can do to encourage peace.

diaryness: I've started posting to my LiveJournal account instead of here mostly. I'm working on a script that'll import my posts from there, but I'm not finished yet. I'm also hacking on a LiveJournal client that I might be inspired to make into an Advogato diary client too... We'll see.

music: variety lab - london in the rain (off hotel costes quatre mixed by stephane pompougnac)

cactus: On the idea of having advogato diary content syndicated onto other sites, I've got my diary being pulled onto my homepage and reformatted at the moment. Its pretty simple, not using XSLT (because I don't have any decent python XSLT libraries handy - perhaps DV's will be good). I've got some scripts that I use to produce it that I can tar up for people if they want. Its all template driven with some XML files containing the navigation, the content and the style.

concert: Went to the noisepop show last night with The Faint, I Am Spoonbender, Adult., and some other band I missed. Awesome. I though Adult. and The Faint were the better than I Am Spoonbender but they were good too. The Faint are going to be back in March so I'm buying tickets in another browser window right now.

sarah: Sarah came around after the concert, we hung out, watched Sid&Nancy, drank beer and talked about her punk rock youth and other random stuff. Then we went to Sparky's for late night food and she bought a rug and some pink converses from Steve (my favourite homeless person). Yay. Happy. Good :)

Things are going really well. I keep expecting her to run away from me or something, but that doesn't see to be happening. Rock!

One month in, couldn't be happier :)

weekend: Moving. Blah... What can I say? Dragging heavy boxes up and down stairs followed by toxic chemicals in confined spaces. Plus I didn't get to see Sarah much.

rant: Random insanity in politics over her and back in Australia. Why are conservative politicians so dumb. Why do they love to lie? More importantly, why would anyone vote for a person or politician whose ideology is based on greed and selfishness?

Why does it cost $300 to fly to London, but $2000 to fly to Perth? Hella hella lame.

19 Feb 2002 (updated 19 Feb 2002 at 00:35 UTC) »
when the sunshine hits your eyes
you'll fine me there
and i'm not afraid of romance

although you've just arrived to crash my life
your smile is saying something that i like:
you're not afraid of romance

-- machine gun fellatio / i'm not afraid of romance

Yay yay yay...

Had a fantastic couple of days with Sarah. Much slacking and cuddling in front of the TV. Late night runs to the supermarket to buy ingredients for things off FoodTV.

And I'm starting to notice I'm picking up her mannerisms...

music: lovetronic - you are love

valentines day: Had a completely fantastic evening with Sarah. We went out to P F Chang's in Walnut Creek and went to a martini bar called Twist before and after. I'm going to spend most of the weekend with Sarah. Yay! :)

I'm not going to come to work from Walnut Creek again in a hurry though - 2.5 hours fighting public transport sucks - especially if you're falling asleep the whole way. BART and Muni and CalTrain oh my!

music: I'm really getting into these hotel costes mix CDs that my cousing Olivier introduced me to. Jazzy french lounge music. It sounds terrible but its really good. I now have all four. They're good music to cook to, good music to sleep on the train to and good music to work to.

music: depeche mode - personal jesus

work: Three people have left the company in the last couple of weeks. I really enjoyed working with all these people. I was a bit angry at first but now I'm just sad. These are the people we most need right now. I'm looking forward to actually being shipped so everyone is a bit less stressed about everything.

life: Life is good. I'm missing Sarah even though I only saw her a couple of days ago. Tonight we're going to Dark Sparkle. That should be great. Its her first time and my second time there. Its only a block from my house so I can't believe I didn't find it before. Speaking of houses I'm moving soon. We gave our evil landlords notice at the start of the month and we've been looking for somewhere to move to. We've been offered a place on Valencia near 19th St, but we'll find out today if we can get a place we want on Duboce - across Valencia from Zeitgeist. Both these places have more character and less rent than our current place. And I'll feel like less of a damned yuppie. Last time I moved out of a brand-new place I swore never to rent somewhere brand-new again. Lets see if I can pull it off this time.

hacking: got my ssh client workingish. Of course the code doesn't build anymore but it will.

tv: 24

weekend: More crazy fun on Saturday night. Thai food, bowling, strip club, Sparky's... I slept till 8:30pm on Sunday...

music: teenage fanclub - radio

life: Goooood! Having a great time. Went out to dinner and then Fake last night with Sarah, a bunch of her friends and Dan. It was Teva's 21st birthday so he came in after midnight. A good time was had by all. More of the same is planned for tonight.

world: Princess Margaret died :-(

hacking: libssh continues to suck less day by day. I'm learning a lot about glib/gobject that I had been able to avoid learning in the past. I really like the GObject object model - I just hate the syntax. I should play with gob2 again sometime. Perhaps after this experience I'll be able to work on GIGL again with a bit more of a clear idea of what I'm doing. Writing it to be glib2/orbit2 from day one is probably the right way to go. The GInterface stuff should fit in nicely with CORBA too.

Going to meet up with Seth sometime soon to talk about how we're going to get metadata in to gnome-vfs post-2.0. We should probably focus on 2.0 first but I think gnome-vfs is basically stable for that release (I just have to go thru bugzilla and fix it).

I'm looking forwards to reading monkeyiq's linux.conf.au papers about libferris. He seems to be experiment with the everything-is-a-filesystem concept in fun ways. I wish I could have made it to linux.conf.au this year, but at this point I'm planning to go next year as I'll be in Australia around then. It'll come down to getting enough time off work.A few short weeks ago I was in a "fuck work - I want to leave this country" mood but these days I'm much more attatched to this crazy place :-)

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