I have a new toy – a copy of Ximian's Connector so the GNOME lists don't have to suffer the hopeless Outlook-ness of my emails, but I won't be able to try it out until the week after next. Outlook (well, actually the hopeless corporate Exchange setup) is one of the few reasons that we [...]

GUADEC is done and a success. Thanks to gman and his helpers it was the best yet. I really didn't expect it to run so smoothly, not because gman was organising it, but because none of seemed to be helping him enough. If only he could organise every GUADEC. Daniel Pisano also deserves many thanks [...]

This lack of connection is killing me. I can't even push things forward via email because everything depends on stuff that's stuck on my hard drive. I have had so little time for my projects lately, but at least I could work offline and upload stuff occasionally during the past few weeks. But now [...]

I work at the offices of a very big slow-witted german corporation that doesn't allow use of the real internet through its proxy.
To get DSL at home, after numerous dull and time-consuming problems, Austria Telekom tell me they need to replace a telphone pole, but refuse to give an even approximate date for it, while [...]