I got a Linksys WRT54GS
wireless router/gateway thing so I can get rid of the cables in my apartment. Luckily I was right in thinking that this one can be connected directly to the DSL modem and use the DSL username and password. As far as I can tell, the regular WRT54G (without the S, which [...]

I enabled comments on my blog. Soon I'll have to deal with comment spam with pyblosxom.

I just submitted my abstract for a GUADEC 2005 paper. I may regret this later, but it will provide incentive for me to make Glom useful. Also, I'd like a better project name.

Glom – Saying “F*** You” to database administrators

Abstract:
Glom (http://www.glom.org) is a simple system for creating useful database
applications, for people who don't give a [...]

A non-techy friend recently found herself with Ubuntu Linux instead of Windows on her laptop. She seemed mostly not panicked by this, but did mention that “it” was slower than it had been with Windows. Upon investigation, it turns out that it's the long OpenOffice startup time that gave this impression. Sounds reasonable. I wonder [...]

I'll be in Venice for a few days over New Year's. I'm really looking forward to wandering around there. My advent calendar helps to count the days.

I've released a couple more Glom versions recently. The one that I released a few months ago turned out to be quite broken, even though it was meant to be a fairly stable working version to leave out there while I was busy on other things. Hopefully the bugs will stop coming back.
Glom is now [...]