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I few months ago I hit another wall posting. I didn't feel like posting about how I was actually feeling (I'd have to work it out for me to post about it) or what was really going on in my life (I'd have to stop for long enough to write it down) so I just stopped. So, what have I been doing? Well, for a start I've been working. Nothing spectacular there, I'm working on new and interesting things and old and dull things at the same time. We've released our second product, launched our second carrier and announced a launch in our second country. Theres a whole lot more of this stuff on the way, but I'm not really connected to it. I've got my own little world of code I live in, unconnected to releases that people actually see or are aware of. Outside of work I've been having a great time. I'm going out a lot and spending time with a lot of different people. I haven't been doing much music stuff recently, not have I really gotten much software written actually. Ahh, well - c'est la vie. I've started an intermediate French class in Palo Alto, near work. I'm really enjoying that. Its a small class - just three of us plus the teacher and I'm finding my French really improving. I've got my tickets for flying off to Europe in late September now too. I'm going to spend a weekend in New York City, then head off to France and Swizerland for a couple of weeks with my Mum and then go on to England to work for a few days. I don't really feel like I desperately need a holiday right now but I'm really looking forward to it. I haven't spent a decent amount of time with my Mum for far too long and I haven't been in Europe in the summer or autumn for a long tim

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

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