We’ve booked our flights and hotel rooms for GUADEC in July. I mean, our new administration person, Ekaterina (Kat) has. André, Karsten, Johannes, David, and myself will be there. Unfortunately, our other developers are too busy on customer projects to attend this year.
Most of us are only there for the core days. Well, it looks [...]

I am incredibly pleased with my Revi Pico RadioStation Internet radio. It’s easy to use and has a rechargeable battery so I can use it much like a regular portable radio. I wanted to have more English around the apartment so Liam hears more and to stop my vocabulary from degrading to the international English [...]

I’m working on some example code for Maemo 5 as standalone modules with full autotools files.
I now have Desktop Widget example code working in the Maemo 5 Beta SDK, showing a simple clock face, using the drawing code from Davyd Madeley’s cairo-based custom widget example, with his kind permission. Implementing a Desktop Widget is much [...]

It’s taken me about two years on and off, but the long slog is finally over. I finished reading Max Frisch’s Stiller in German.
I’ve read maybe twenty English books while trying to get through it, never quite giving up, never caring if the character is actually Stiller, uninterested in the commentary on Swiss society. Now [...]