People generally don’t mention pregnancy during the first trimester, not knowing whether there will be second trimester, and this became a habit for us. But things are going well so I should mention this properly. My girlfriend, Sigi, is pregnant, in her ninth month, so some time in early January I’ll be a father. The [...]

My post about my new not-working-automatically Monitor reminded me of something that I forgot to follow up, though it’s probably unrelated.
At FOSDEM in February 2007, I muttered to X man Keith Packard that my laptop (with Intel graphics) didn’t work with the projector. I complain to everyone about this at all conferences, because it never [...]

The end of the tax year encouraged me to get a new 24″ 1920×1600 widescreen monitor (

Over the last couple of weeks, I’ve been writing a Clutter tutorial for Openismus. Clutter is a “2.5D” canvas API maintained by OpenedHand.
Here you can see a preview of the tutorial, though some sections just have TODOs for now. I think it’s already the only place to find a useful description of Clutter Timelines, Effects [...]

The latest attempt to create a gtkmm-ish C++ API for gstreamer is making good progress, this time started by Milosz Derezynski for his “Beep” player. Over the last few weeks I’ve tried to help out by solving the more difficult problems such as support for GstMiniObject (a cut-down GObject), and support for GstObject (GObject with [...]

The plone-based replacement for www.gnome.org struggles forward. But it won’t get much further unless we find some new Plone developers who can help make it happen.
I have a whole other blog post that I’ve been waiting to publish for about a year as things have crawled forwards, variously delayed by an svn account request [...]