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2003-12-31
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Dave/Dina
Kristof has done some cool work on the VCR parsing side. I just scheduled a recording of Dark Angel for tomorrow, and it looks like it'll work ok. I packaged about 10 perl modules that it needs to RPM's, will drop them online as well too. Jeroen will be pleased to see the vcr thingy.
As for CD's, we now have about 400 in the system. I've gone through pretty much of all of my own CD's now. What next ?
nautilus-media
made it into Phoebe, the new Red Hat beta. That is pretty cool but pretty scary as well. Need to work on it some more very soon. Going to install Phoebe soon on my home machine to test if it works well.
people
mglazer : yes it could. It could happen to you.
ankh : Tango doesn't allow barefoot dancing. After reading your answer I realized that you were the person sitting next to me barefooted during one of the talks at GUAD3C :) Are you always barefooted ?
coding
At work I'm now working on a code-only project : a library to implement the SBU-490 UECP protocol, which is a binary communication protocol for RDS encoders. It is great to put everything I've learned in practice on a well-written spec and have code come out looking pretty... It's not overly hard, and it ends up looking like really nice code, with the right set of abstractions.
If you do radio work and you're interested, drop me a line.
family
My mother is weird. She needed to rack up expenses for her tax deduction. So she wanted my advice on a laptop, and she took me into town to buy one. We ended up getting an Acer Travelmate for her (which is a tablet pc, and it only comes with a QWERTY keyboard but we use AZERTY over here. She selected it solely on the property that it fit into her bag), a Compaq Presario for my sister (which means I probably get her old one, which was my fourth PC, and will be nice in our kitchen :)), two radio CD players (for her and for my sister), a VCR (for my sister), and a small TV (for her kitchen).
Then she went out to get a new mobile for my sister as well, and I jokingly said that mine was old, and she got another one for me. I was stupefied. Then after seeing the holes in my coat, she took me to the clothes shop, and asked me to pick a coat. I picked one, she liked it, I did too, but it didn't have a hood, so she told me to pick another one with a hood, and she bought both. While waiting in line at the checkout queue she also asked me to get a shirt and a sweater. I think we were in there for all of 3 minutes.
I think I know where I got my bouts of compulsive consumerism from.
Sadly, when going home my car broke down. After two hours of wrestling with it I dumped it somewhere on a parking lot, need to figure out what to do next.
holidays
I'm not particularly fond of them. I like the opportunity to see my family once in a while though. My cousin, who now lives in London, asked if I or any friends of mine had good business ideas, because his hobby is now "hunting for VC capital". Maybe I should take him up on it :) If you have good ideas, let him know.