I recently finished watching the 2 series of The Office on DVD. I thought I'd catch up on some British TV culture, because I haven't seen anything after The Fast Show. But I can't really enjoy it. I grew up with these thames-corridor/west-country/estuary accents and they still grind my nerves. And I can't think of [...]

I'm back in Berlin after a week in Brno, in the Czech republic. We had almost no chance to see anything but the inside of a meeting room. Our hotel was so far away that it was in Austria, past the border crossing. I'll probably be back there next week, and in Munich at the [...]

All next week I'll be working in Brno (AKA Bruenn in German), in the Czech Republic. There's no good reason for this that I can think of, so I hope it's nice there.
First, I'm looking forward to the weekend back in Munich.

Have I mentioned lately that ClearCase is failure? 15 hours to check the source out for a project. Case closed.

This Interview with the CEO and CTO of E28 is fascinating to me. You might not have heard of E28, but they are a chinese daughter company of one of the established Taiwanese designer/manufacturers, and have deals with others in Taiwan. Taiwan (and probably mainland China) is the present and future of mobile phone design, [...]

At approximately UTC 13:00 on Wednesday, GNOME 2.8.0 will be released, when Jeff hits the big release button in Sydney. Then we can spend the day reading glowing reviews and enjoying the adoration of slashdotters, and wondering what's next in GNOME 2.10.
And on Wednesday evening, some of us will be celebrating the birth of GNOME [...]

The GNOME release team are receiving a small avalanche of hard code freeze break requests. Maybe people can inately sense that the 2.8 release cycle is two weeks shorter than normal.
This stage in the release cycle usually scares me senseless. We have to weigh up a) fixing fairly serious bugs, with b) the risk of [...]

Until I tried this in Internet Explorer, I thought that this worldwide US presidential election thing was maybe a Florida-related satire.

John, I know, but national polls of the
popular vote are used as a innacurate measure of
what might be happening in all the swing states, particularly if the samples are selected to be somehow representative of the country. Obviously they are not much good for that, but there are probably more of them than state polls, [...]