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 I originally made them so I could easily test the window migration extensions to gtk/wnck I was working on.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.

I’m in Boston again. Been here since Sunday. Things have been going fairly well I suppose. It seems I am starting to get my arms around red carpet now, as I was able to fix a few things today.

A lot of other remote guys are in town too, so that’s cool. I finally got to meet Tambet and Aidan.

I fixed a small bug in nautilus yesterday. I miss hacking on it. I guess there are big plans for 2.6, though, so maybe I can get in on that if I have time. It’s really great to see medusa getting some love. I haven’t tried it out yet, but I hear Curtis Hovey has been doing great things.

I’ve totally neglected dashboard this week. I have a little patch sitting on my machine at home that fixes up the epiphany frontend and turns it into a plugin. Hopefully it won’t be too out of date when I get back next week…..

I bought “Cat’s Cradle” by Kurt Vonnegut and read it on the trip to Boston. I was only expecting to get maybe half-way done with it, but it turns out I was able to read the whole thing due to my flight(s) taking so long. In Indianapolis, we sat on the tarmac for like 45 minutes waiting for a new flight plan (apparently there was some bad weather in the original route), so I was like an hour late to JFK. At JFK, we had to wait for a flight plan again. Then, they found out they lost the captain’s luggage so we had to wait on that. When we finally got out of the terminal, we were like 46th in line for takeoff, so we slowly taxiied around for a while. During the taxi, the cabin filled with smoke due to some trivial air-conditioning snafu. Everyone freaked out and we went back to the tarmac. Two hours later, or so, we were finally in the air.

Anyway, “Cat’s Cradle” was really good. I think I’m going to get another Vonnegut to read on the way back. Anyone have a suggestion?

I had a pretty nice week in Boston, generally. All the Ximian guys/gals were cool (except Ian :) ). I even managed to get some actual work done. So, things were going well up until Friday. That’s when I missed my plane, because I thought it was leaving on Saturday. Ugh. I called the travel agency, and managed to get another flight out at 6:00 AM. I ended up getting to Indy around 11 or so. Then, I discover that my car’s battery is dead. Nice. Eventually, I get a jump from the parking lot dudes, and I’m on my way. Pretty tired by the time I get home, having not slept for about 30 hours. Slept the rest of the day. Have to deal with the car today, and find out what ran the battery down. I pulled a fuse to what I thought was the culprit yesterday (there is a penny in the cigarette lighter — seems a likely cause), so we’ll see how it goes.

I’m leaving tomorrow for my first trip to Boston. I’m pretty psyched about it.

Worked a bit on epiphany/dashboard today. Updated the frontend patch to work with the new API, and also built an RPM (http://www.snorp.net/files/packages/epiphany-0.7.3-2.i386.rpm). It requires mozilla from xd2 (sorry, it’s what I have).

It sounds like the dashboard demo at the o’reilly conference went pretty well. I suppose it will be getting even more attention now. Good stuff.

I’m back home now. Had a great weekend at the lake, as usual. Went sailing on the catamaran, watched fireworks, ate, etc.

Some friends of the people I was visiting are moving, and they had an old desk they were trying to get rid of. Amazingly, I found a way to transport it back down to Bloomington, so now I have a desk. Sweet.

Looks like Nat (and his trusty sidekicks) made a bunch of progress on Dashboard over the weekend. I wonder if that guy sleeps. It appears my ephy patch to make it send cluepackets is outdated now, and needs some more work. I should find time to fix it.