Julian Missig has decided to stop work on gabber, because he has a crashing bug. He believes that there is a change in memory management policy between gtkmm 2.2 and gtkmm 2.4. There isn't, and if there seems to be then it's a bug that I'd gladly fix. I've told him about 4 times now [...]

After so many people had recommended it to me, I finally got around to watching Black Cat, White Cat. It's wonderfully entertaining and imaginative, though I'm afraid many Romas probably find it highly offensive. For several days after watching it, I found myself doing little dances to the music. Now I want to watch all [...]

I spent Friday and Saturday at LinuxTag in Karlsruhe, helping out a little at the GNOME stand. LinuxTag is much better than I expected. Somehow I always thought it would be just an expo, with a bunch of boring corporate stands. But there's a great sense of activity and community, and there's heaps of high-quality [...]

I am disappointed. Fedora has a sane time-based release schedule, but does not seem any closer to allowing community involvement. Debian has great community involvement but seems even further away from having a time-based release schedule, or even a release. Allowing either of these problems to go unfixed means eventual demise for a mass-market consumer [...]

We went to the Muffathalle last night to watch Germany lose to the Czech Republic. The German team were clumsy and out-of-sync. We don't have to watch them anymore. A couple of days ago there was some strange tree-flaunting procession in Schwabing.

As I mentioned a while ago, I wanted to have some kind of company name to put on my freelancing work, so that it could become known, and so that I could build it over the years. I finally thought of a name, though I’m not ready to found a full company yet. I have [...]

I was offerered a project in Berlin which I decided to take if all goes well. It's a long way from Munich but it's a) better than Linz, and b) could fund some of my other plans. Munich would still be my home though. And it looks like I might spend a year in Romania [...]

I was reading an article about London's mayor, Ken Livingston, in the Economist last week. It reminded me of the attitude that an open source maintainer must often have. Livingstone believed that people do not need to drive their cars in central London, and that a) the majority of people should not have to suffer [...]

The election results were depressing but it's not surprising that people voted in the european elections according to their national issues. After all, it was the national parties that were offering themselves for election, and they didn't offer any substantial policies for Europe, or even communicate what their role as MEPs is. To have meaningful [...]

Glom now interprets and displays dates and times according to the formats used in the user's locale. In C++ that requires the use of the time_put<&qt; and time_get<&qt; facets, which are not very pretty. Daniel Elstner did a great code-review of my locale stuff, so I learnt lots along the way. There is one small [...]