I’ve been slacking a bit when it comes to DJing land picked it up this year again. Some of my mixtapes are on a part of my blog that’s not syndicated, but I set up a page with all the posts. I just posted a new one today. If you have no plans tonight and you’re in Berlin, come to the GNOME3 Launch Lounge (Facebook event page) in c-base tonight. I’ll be playing there as well....
Happy Birthday GNOME! Thanks for all the goodness you bring to us all the time! In an attempt to make GNOME even better, we’ll celebrate its birthday properly, we’ll have a Celebratory Hug Day! So on 22 August 2007, in all timezones, we’ll be meeting in #ubuntu-bugs on irc.freenode.net for a very special Hug Day. If you’re interested in helping to improve Ubuntu and GNOME, please join us. Feel free to ask pedro, bdmurray, heno and the rest of the team for ways to help out....
I never wanted to be part of a blog debate, especially if it contains ranting. I would have very much preferred to see some action on the spec, which is nothing more than a spec skeleton - it doesn’t mean anything at all at the moment. I proposed this spec because in the months of GNOME maintenance in Ubuntu I noticed that: * normal users really do need the system tools, * we faced a lot of bugs, * I personally had problems trying to fix them, the reasons for this seemed to be to me: * the code has grown a lot over time, * Perl (for the backends) and C (for the frontends) seemed to be not to be the easiest solution for the problems g-s-t is trying to address....