Our new hires (André, Karsten, Jan Arne) are nicely settled in now, so it’s time to find some more. There’s exciting development work to be done at Openismus using GTK+ and GNOME code. I think our employees like how we work. I try to keep them happy and not too stressed but you can probably [...]

While I was in North Berwick, we went through my fathers stash of photos and found lots of slides made by my grandfather showing my father as a teenager and me and my sister as babies and young kids.
I bought my father a Plustek OpticFilm 35mm slide scanner and a Flickr Pro account. He’s using [...]

As much as I dislike Ubuntu’s Launchpad bug tracker, Fedora Linux seems to have made something worse.I guess they want to discourage people from submitting bug reports.
For instance, I want to file a bug about the Glom package. Here are some things I tried:
Go to Fedora’s package page for Glom (I had previously found this [...]

It wasn’t easy, but I found some accommodation for the 7 Openismus employees who are going to GUADEC in Istanbul. The recommended accommodation (The 2 Hotel Golden Horn hotels) was booked out and I guess it has been for some time. You’ll be lucky to even get a reply from those hotels.
We booked two apartments [...]

Dear Internet, I think this is the hard drive on my Acer Travelmate 4100. How on earth do I remove this metal plate thing and get to the hard drive itself, so I can put a new drive in? I’ve already broken the little tab of clear plastic by pulling on it.
Update: Nevermind. There’s a [...]

I don’t know why some projects use Trac, though it’s been chosen by some people who I respect. It frequently annoys me.
For now, I’ll restrict my rant to Trac’s bug tracker. It fails to do the basic things that bug trackers should do: Make it easy to submit a bug, and make it easy to [...]

I’m back from North Berwick where Liam met his grandfather and aunt. We’ll try to visit once a year.
The 2 hour flight wasn’t too stressful but my sister is moving to New Zealand which will be a little more difficult to visit.

I’m currently on holiday in North Berwick. It’s been fun but not quite as relaxing as hoped. Liam has started waking at night again after two months of sleeping through the night.
I’ve been getting up early to do a couple of hours work each morning, but this laptop’s hard drive has started hard crashing after [...]