I’d like to open an Openismus office in Berlin in the next couple of months, for about three of our people. I don’t have much idea where office rental is advertised in Berlin. What’s the equivalent of the Süddeutschezeitung’s small ads there?
I’d love us to have something in Kreuzberg, near Schlesiches-Tor, maybe by the river [...]

Jhbuild seems to have a general problem with D-Bus. This has become obvious now that GConf is using D-Bus instead of ORBit (see these gconf-list messages: 1, 2).
To make GConf work in jhbuild, you need to do this in each jhbuild shell:
dbus-launch –exit-with-session bash
Then there’s the problem of Avahi. To make Avahi work in jhbuild, [...]

Liam is now six and a half months old. He’s not crawling yet, but in the last couple of weeks he has learned to get around quickly by doing a kind of commando elbow crawl. It lets him entertain himself without being carried around so much, but we must now move many things up from [...]

Over the last month or so I’ve been moving various GooCanvas stuff to GNOME’s infrastructure, on Damon’s behalf, away from Sourceforge.
As you can see on the live.gnome.org GooCanvas page, it’s now in svn.gnome.org, we have a gnome.org mailing list, we use bugzilla.gnome.org, and the documentation is on library.gnome.org.
Thanks to the various admins.

Last week was the GUADEC Conference in Istanbul. Overall it felt like one of the best GUADECs, just because I like Istanbul so much. It’s a proper city.
That’s despite the organization of the registration, accommodation, travel instructions (to the venue) being a near disaster (as they usually are). For people who made it to the [...]

Over the last two years, a couple of people have had problems sending email to my openismus email address. They never received any failure message, but the mails never arrived. This was annoying and mysterious, but the problem was obviously with the senders’ systems so there wasn’t much I could do.
This week one more person [...]

The Openismus T-shirts for the GUADEC Istanbul conference are ready.
I wanted to do something different again, so I persuaded the people at Brandt to do a kind of Rolf Harris punk thing. It’s a little bit funky. I don’t think it will please everyone but it will be noticed. Each one is different.

There was a [...]

After six months I started running again, trying to lose my 5Kg of paternity weight. I’m up to four bridges again, out of a usual eight.
This gives me the chance to listen to my Pimsleur Turkish course again while running. Hopefully I’ll be able to say very few things well, so I’ll be looking for [...]

Yesterday I received my new Lenovo Thinkpad X61. It’s the UX29DGE model, with Intel GMA X3100 graphics (gnome-device-manager says GM965/GL960), and 2.20 GHz Core Duo T7500. It shows up as Model 76739DG in gnome-device-manager.
After fighting with Windows Vista to reduce its partition size enough, I installed Ubuntu Hardy easily. I wanted to keep Vista around [...]