Present Perfect

mach

This weekend I decided to fix all outstanding issues that were bothering me, then push out a release. It's been a long time coming. With the Red Hat Linux Project being baptised, Fedora starting to grow, and my need to work on Dave/Dina soon, I want this out and tested.

I asked in the fedora channel if anyone wanted to test the latest prerelease, and Jeff, rpm's author, took a stab at it. He threw some bits at it, causing some small issues, but nothing big enough not to release. It seems he thought it was useful, which is good to know. Of course, he was trying to get me to use his mkrpm script which puts contents of .src.rpm's in CVS repositories. I did, seems to work fine as well, and I need to unload all my Fedora specs anyway.

So, after some twiddling, shaving, and polishing, the first python-based mach version is out. Get it.

Non-work

Being unemployed, I'm doing all the things I was hoping I would do. Enjoying Dark Angel on the PlayStation2 immensely. Cleaning up bits of my room, finances, and life all over. Inviting friends to do stuff. Getting crazy ideas all the time. Calling up random people because I'm at home alone :)

I've made a big TODO-list, and it's already scaring the hell out of me. I'm getting performance anxiety, so I'll just have to tackle each issue one by one and get moving.

TV

Yikes ! Two months and all we get is crap, and now they throw all the good stuff at me. New episodes of Buffy, Dawson's Creek (yeah yeah, save your comments), 24, and my all-time favourite series, "Buiten De Zone" (in Dutch) is on too ! Dave/Dina is primed and ready to record everything to CD.

Dina

So, it's been two years since I started The Dave/Dina Project, which I'm going to pick up again soon and do a CD release of.

I still remember how the name just came to me out of nowhere, and finding it perfect for the project and for my personal desires to Have Good Names. Dina was then Belgium's candidate for the Miss World Elections, and here was a miss who wasn't stuck-up and had some form of natural beauty other contestants always seem to lack.

Searches in Google for her name turned up our project fairly high consistently over the past few years, so she's bound to have seen the site at some point.

Today, I get a call from my ex-collague: "You'll never guess who's here today." Well, I did guess correctly :) So I asked him to get me an autograph and a few sound bytes I could use for the project, and he did. Why did I quit that job again ? I spent two years waiting for her to pay us a visit; I'm not even completely done there yet and she's there when I'm not.

Anyways, all interesting stories to tell the grandkids in fifty years. And she had, in fact, seen the site, and wondered what it was about. Need to do something about the online documentation ...

Barcelona

Yay, holiday ! Off to see my girlfriend who's there already since last week. GStreamer meeting at the end of the week, too, and some of the Ximian guys are in town there too because of the Novell European thing. Looking forward to whatever is going to happen immensely.

Don't tell me I misspelt something, it was too appropriate.

hadess

I'll let you sleep. Come here, big guy ! ***snore***

mach This weekend I decided to fix all outstanding issues that were bothering me, then push out a release. It's been a long time coming. With the Red Hat Linux...