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2003-12-31
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GStreamer
It's incredible ! We got it out of the door, our 0.6.0 release. This is the one going into Gnome 2.2, and hopefully Red Hat 8.1. I'm psyched, I hope we didn't drop the ball on any part.
I'm glad we got this far. There were some last-minute problems, as always; Wim snuck in an ABI change which he felt needed to be made now, but in doing so introduced a few sneaky bugs. We've worked them out, but it came in handy that Gnome 2.2 had been pushed back one week as well.
I should also start preparing my FOSDEM talk. Some people I don't even know have mailed me saying they're going to attend, which is nice... I'll also be having some guests over for the weekend, I need to figure out where to take them during the weekend :)
GStreamer got selected in this month's Linux Format (the print version). I bought it especially to see that. They were very keen on the editor.
Fedora
Warren has gotten the server together and installed some vserver thingies. I tried out mach on it and it worked after some tweaking to not make it use bind mounts.
Last Thursday, I had to work late because we were having a planned power outage. A perfect opportunity to create GPG keys for Fedora and sign each other's keys.
We ended up calling each other, putting up signature files on various servers, reading out public code, and so on... I felt like a little boy in a treehouse writing secret code messages to fool the girls.
But, on the plus side, I know have validated and signed GPG keys. On to the packages !
Last weekend a few friends of ours threw a tea party. Seeing as they had just laid new carpet, they asked everyone to wear red socks and take off their shoes. We had a really good time, which prompted me to reconsider my division of free time :) I should really make effort to hang out with friends more than I used to in the past. I always am happy when I do.
Bought a great game to play there, too. It's a German game, and apparently it's all the rage too. The Catan Colonists, it's called.
Went to De Nachten festival to see Arab Strap play, finally. Pretty good, though as a two-piece the bad singing tends to get in the way of a good performance. It's the first time I saw them, and I had pictured the singer totally different. Aidain striked me as a cross between Hadess and Michael Meeks.
There is something wrong though with my world view if I start comparing my rock stars to hackers I know. I'm pretty sure I should be doing it the other way around.
Work
Well, I got promoted. I guess this means I'm something akin to CTO now. This sounds better than it is I think. For example, yesterday all of Belgium was miraculously snowed under. I drove for an hour and a half to work, while normally it only takes half an hour. And when I arrived, I found out I had to return to the exact same place I came from because the radio antenna was out of commission due to snow covering up the dish.
And today, I had to do the same in another town, and when I arrived, it had just started raining gently, so the snow had already melted from the dish. Got out on a perfectly good saturday night for no good reason.