This evening we are off to Romania for three weeks, driving [1] from Munich through Hungary to Timişoara and staying there for a week or so. Apparently I’m doing a general GNOME talk at the local Timişoara LUG on Thursday, but I’ll need to borrow someone’s PC to actually make some slides, because I’ve been [...]

People who should be on Planet GNOME because it’s the only blog aggregator I use, and sometimes I even forget to read my email before reading it in the morning:

Jonathan Jongsma (gtkmm, Agave developer)
Jason Clinton (gnome-games maintainer)
Johannes Schmid (Anjuta developer, part-time Openismus employee)

What is it about Web 2.0 that means everyone’s got to have an opinion and most of those opinions are expressed at great waffly length with little obvious difference between them? And everyone’s got to let the caffeine convince them that they’ve just had a revolutionary get-on-the-speeding-train notion, while everyone else is thinking “Yeah, so, [...]

Another ungoogleable question means it’s time to ask the Lazy Web again. Sometimes I wish that I could tell google what is the object and what is the subject.
Before I reinvent the wheel, does anybody know of a python module to unpack and parse debian packages, putting the information (such as the stuff in the [...]

I finally instructed my accountant to set up Openismus GmbH which will probably take a few weeks. It feels slightly scary, but I want to give it a try. Got to build to grow.
I already have a first part-time employee – Johannes Schmid of Anjuta fame. I was very sad to reply to all the [...]

I noticed this post about Munich’s new LRZ supercomputer in Garching on Moritz Angermann’s blog. Looking at this photo (webcam apparently, so maybe you can only see it in the daylight), there’s something faintly absurd about it. Apparently this big cube building (at the right) is the computer, or can be perceived as the computer [...]

If there are any German GTK+/gtkmm/GNOME developers out there who’d like a few hours of part-time employment per week. maybe alongside their studies, please email me. I can’t offer much, and it might not last forever, but it’s probably better than the crap you’d have to do otherwise.