I’ve been hacking on the wireless applet a bit the last couple days. This is the result:

Right now it just lists the access points and the quality. It would be sweet if you could switch to another essid from there, etc.

Paolo has been working on recent-files stuff. I feel guilty for not helping him yet, so maybe I’ll work on that tonight.

My Dad’s old car (which I have been driving) was getting in pretty bad shape, so I bought a new (used) car on Saturday. It’s a green VW Passat. It’s totally sexy. I took pictures but don’t have them up anywhere.

Work isn’t taking as much of my time now, which is good I guess. Unfortunately, after hacking all day at work I have little desire to hack on GNOME, which is bad. The API/ABI freeze is on Monday and recent-files STILL isn’t ready to go in. Paolo has been working hard on a new document model and other good stuff, though, so maybe we’ll make it. OO.o has its own implementation, though, so we need to coordinate with those guys on what is happening…

Wow, talk about some shocking news. Chema Celorio died last night after a skydiving accident.

Chema was the person who got me involved with GNOME. I saw his post to the gnome-love mailing list, and decided I wanted to help out. He was more than willing to guide me along, often sinking quite a bit of time into answering my questions, etc. I met him for the first time in real life this summer on my first trip to Boston after being hired. He was staying at the company apartment in between sales trips. One night we were bored and watched a bunch of video he had recorded from his jumps. Chema lived life to the max, and he will certainly be missed.

See, I knew I wouldn’t keep this thing updated.

Going to Boston again on Sunday. Mucho trabajo to do. Things have been going pretty well, though.

A week or so ago I was messing around with creating panel applets in C#. Originally, I tried to wrap PanelApplet, but that didn’t go so well. I ended up writing some super hacky C glue to do the job. It worked pretty well. I think if I get a chance I might look at trying to wrap PanelApplet again. It really shouldn’t be that hard. After all, PanelApplet is pretty much a standard GObject.

I started on a tutorial on writing nautilus context menus and property pages in python. I’ve wanted to do this for a while now. These components are super easy to write in python. Plus you can do hella cool stuff with them, so I think it may be attractive to newbies.

Do not, under any circumstances, see the movie “Cabin Fever”. Worst. Movie. Ever.

If you’re feeling brave, you should totally check out the latest red carpet client. It supports apt rpm repositories and multiple servers now. It’s very sweet. There is a fairly recent one in the ‘rcd-snaps’ channel if you want to try it.

Yeah, so, it took me a while to get the metaWeblog support working with Seth’s blogger applet (as some of the planet gnome readers may have noticed). Seems to be working well now though.

GNOME 2.4 is coming out soon. Best GNOME Ever. I don’t think I did anything, though, except fix a couple bugs. School really had me busy during the end…

PyGTK 2.0 was released! This is great news! I have some libwnck bindings laying around that I’m going to try to get in now. I originally made them so I could easily test the window migration extensions to gtk/wnck I was working on. That kind of flopped though (I am lazy, plus the community did not seem very interested in it).

Someone filed this totally sweet bug report against the recent-files stuff the other day.

I’m trying out Seth’s blogger applet. Testing 1..2..3….

I’ve been listening to music for like 12 hours straight now using the latest Rhythmbox from CVS. I’m happy to say that it hasn’t crashed even ONCE during this time. The UI feels snappy, and everything Just Works (with the exception of it not playing a couple of my mp3s, but whatever). MAD PROPS TO WALTERS AND THE REST OF THE RHYTHMBOX TEAM!

So, what I’m trying to say is, if you gave up on Rhythmbox back in the day, give it another chance. Oh, here’s a screenshot.

A heckuvalot has happened since my last post, I suppose. Notably, Novell acquired Ximian. As Dave said, some people were able to access the intranet today (I was not one of them). However, the org chart on the site shows me as reporting directly to the Vice Chairman of Novell. I don’t think Dave will be calling me a dorkwad anymore (I demoted him once already today).

I haven’t done any gnome hacking lately, and unfortunately I don’t see any happening in the near future. Work is keeping me pretty busy. Hopefully I’ll have some time after this development cycle ends.

Had a great time in Boston while I was there. In the conference call(s) today, I realized that I was able to put a face to nearly every voice I heard, which was a nice change.

The Rio portable ogg player which I’ve been salivating over for a while was finally anounced. I ordered one immediately. It’s going to kick so much ass. I’m a little worried about linux integration, though. Supposedly, the little bugger runs a webserver and has a java applet which you can use to transfer files to it. While this would probably work, what I would really like is a way to mount the drive or use a gnome-vfs module. The developers of the Karma are the same ones who made the empeg linux-based car mp3 player, so maybe they’ll be nice and release some code and/or specs.

I would like to retract the “except Ian” remark made on July 20th. That is all.