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I'm trying to work out what pfremy is on about. I'm actually kind of hurt by his rants about how bad Eazel was about working with the rest of the community. I guess as a KDE user he's uniquely qualified to comment on the workings of GNOME. I guess whats not so clear to him as a KDE user is that the stuff in Nautilus that doesn't "fit" into GNOME 1.4 is basically stuff that was missing that was later integrated into core GNOME libraries.

pfremy's little KDE facts page is strange. Counting the days between unicode Qt and Gtk+ releases, etc. Is it a race? Aren't we all meant to be trying to develop a bunch of good free software? Thats why I'm doing this. I choose GNOME over KDE for a variety of reasons - primarily familiarity. I'm not going to make a list counting days between the implementation of various features.

I guess "get a life" is the best way to summarize this message.

Oh well...

These may be the best days of my life...

5 Jun 2002 (updated 5 Jun 2002 at 17:46 UTC) »

wow.
Valgrind is amazing.
I have tried using Insure++, Purify, TotalView, dmalloc and efence before, but Valgrind is the only one thats been finding these bugs. Free Software wins.
Now to complain to my Rational sales rep.

21 Mar 2002 (updated 21 Mar 2002 at 21:26 UTC) »

xmlrpc is cool

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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...

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