I'm back in Berlin after taking holiday in the UK, in London , North Berwick and Edinburgh . We didn't actually spend enough time in Edinburgh and got picky about what shows to see – things seem less worthwhile when they give you free tickets, but did see one wonderful physical/dance thing – Rumble, by [...]

I don't think GNOME 2.7/2.8 is getting the testing that 2.5/2.6 got, and that was a scary release cycle. So I don't plan to approve many freeze breaks unless they fix really serious problems. I haven't been testing it myself recently. I still haven't tried the new MIME type stuff, for instance. Don't assume that [...]

munichblogs.com and berlinblogs.com have gone blank. It's a planet problem that's been mentioned before. I should have DSL in Berlin today so I can investigate this evening. However, I also have to translate the GNOME Deutschland constitution into English for Tim Ney before I go on holiday, so time is limited. I hate having just [...]

I just noticed that an eclipse-3-compatible version of the CDT (C Development Tools) was released a month or so ago. Hopefully I can get that onto Debian somehow. This comment from RedHat is good news: Working CDT 2.0 into next product release schedule for August 2004. I currently use one of the other awful IDEs, [...]

Apparently the new Hartz reforms in Germany are going to make life excessively difficult for a lot of unemployed people, but there's clearly something that needs fixing. For example, unemployed people receive a percentage of the money that they got when they were employed. So an unemployed bank manager gets more than an unemployed laborer. [...]

I found an internet cafe around the corner where I can use my laptop, so I was able to upload new versions of glom, gtkmm, glibmm, and gnome-vfsmm. Kreuzberg has 3rd-World internet cafe prices – 1 euro per hour. In a couple of weeks I should have a DSL connection here too. On saturday I [...]

I need a decent German web site hoster for some of my sites. One that's Linuxy and lets me do Linuxy things. Bytecamp does not seem to be that, though to their credit they do offer free hosting to open-source developers (I'm paying though, so I get to criticise). They only allow access via ftp [...]

It looks like Martin Schulze will have libsigc 2.0 working with the SUN Forte compiler soon. That will allow gtkmm 2.4 to work with that compiler too. It has worked fine with gtkmm 2.0 and 2.2 for a while. As well as being a great signal/slot API, libsigc 2.0 is a hell of a C [...]

I am back in Berlin after a long weekend in Munich. I'll be here at least during the week for the next few months. I have a little apartment in Kreuzberg. I like Berlin and I like the Kreuzberg neighbourhood. Berlin has quite vibrant people surviving among crumbling old infrastructure, and Kreuzburg more so. Berlin [...]

I saw Fahrenheit 9/11 a couple of days ago. If you read newspapers regularly then it doesn't contain much that's new, but it does package things up nicely for the average undecided voter. I think it actually tries to mention too many details, probably so it doesn't all look like unfounded insinuation. But a film [...]