The GNOME Foundation Board asked me to buy a webcam for the GNOME Events Box, so we could show Cheese on our stands. This could be cool together with the box’s new projector. I also wanted a webcam for my own use so Liam’s grandparents can see him in motion more often. So this was [...]

Our Nokia N95 can theoretically do SIP calls over our wi-fi network. But it’s so insanely difficult to set up that it feels like nothing more than a checkbox feature. Does anyone have the list of exact values for each of its SIP account settings for logging on to ekiga.net?

A couple of years ago the microphone on my headset (regular, not USB) stopped working. I had used it with Skype briefly. I guessed it was a problem with the headset. A while ago I bought a new headset, and that microphone didn’t work either. Then I knew that it was a software problem with [...]

With the release of GNOME 2.22 we finally made an API/ABI stable release of glibmm with the new giomm API. We went way past the GNOME API freeze date, which was scary and unwise, so there are sure to be some undiscovered problems. But we are quite sure that any remaining problems would be things [...]

Early tomorrow I’ll take a train to Berlin for the GTK+ HackFest. I’ll arrive at 14:07 at the Hauptbahnhof [1] and wait for Behdad to arrive a few minutes later, if the trains are on time. Unfortunately, I’ll miss most people because I’m leaving the next evening. But I can only be away for one [...]

Liam is just over two months old now. He’s a little more aware of the world, though not really interacting with it much yet. He started to smile properly a week ago, and every day he makes slightly different vowel sounds. After two months of sleeping, eating and crying, the first wide smile makes a [...]

Now that Clutter 0.6 is out, I found the time to finish the planned sections for the Clutter tutorial that I mentioned in December, for Openismus. Here is the html version and a PDF, though of course the PDF doesn’t have the nice links into the API reference documentation and the links to the actual [...]