http://www.qoheleth.uklinux.net/blog A blog of an AbiWord hacker Wed, 28 Nov 2007 17:18:02 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In case you missed the fuss, these alternative tube announcements are quite amusing. (My favourite one is A Reminder for American Tourists, the runner-up being A Reminder for residents of London.) http://www.qoheleth.uklinux.net/blog/?p=155 Web 2.0 … is basically a collection of random unspecified features written by 23-year-old goth acidheads at Netscape in 1995 [a funny and incisive post on Android] http://www.qoheleth.uklinux.net/blog/?p=154 So the saving powers of the self-proclaimed messiah Re and his holy book are now being doubted even at the primary shrine, with allegiances of the most loyal being switched to a new deity: … we at the OpenDocument Foundation have been displeased with the direction of ODF development ... http://www.qoheleth.uklinux.net/blog/?p=153 Just back from a week holiday at the lovely Greek island of Kalymnos — excellent climbing, food and company. Uploaded some pictures to flicker, also my pals have some more here. I would much recommend Kalymnos as a climbing destination for anyone leading a French 5 and above; the rock is ... http://www.qoheleth.uklinux.net/blog/?p=152 This is just scandalous! http://www.qoheleth.uklinux.net/blog/?p=151 OK, so after some more hacking, I have got the current svn head of clutter to build, and the MSVC 2k5 project files are now in the repository, including project files for all the current tests. I am pleased to say that almost no changes were needed to the clutter ... http://www.qoheleth.uklinux.net/blog/?p=150 So, we already have clutter running on the Mac OSX, and yesterday, after little bit effort, I got clutter running on Windows; in case anybody doubts me, the obligatory screen shot is here (click it for more): . Once I got the necessary dependencies set up (mostly thanks to all the ... http://www.qoheleth.uklinux.net/blog/?p=148 Sunday before last I joined my friends Tim and Tia for a bike ride around Mount Keen in the Cairngorms. We set of from Glen Tanar (near Aboyne). Tim warned me from the start not to try to keep up with Tia; having been the fastest woman in the Loch ... http://www.qoheleth.uklinux.net/blog/?p=147 So Blair has been made a peace envoy for the middle east. He is, of course, immensely qualified for the job: he has huge credibility with all the parties involved, he can lie in matters of life-and-death without letting on, and he is prepared to sacrifice hundred thousand innocent folk ... http://www.qoheleth.uklinux.net/blog/?p=146 I have been using Ubuntu since the days of Warty, but I am yet to experience a smooth upgrade from one version to another. After the past experiences of a Windows partition being rendered unbootable (twice), and X server not starting (always) after Ubuntu updates, today I have reached a ... http://www.qoheleth.uklinux.net/blog/?p=145