Present Perfect

Barcelona

Down here for a day, Barcelona is great. Yesterday evening we met up with Nat and Miguel in some swanky restaurant down by the sea. We're still not sure who paid for dinner, we hope it was Novell. Anyways, Nat's a lot of fun to hang out with; he's always all over the place, stealing stuff from everywhere and everyone, and moving from big corporate guy to little kid in mere seconds.

I was impressed as well at how my girlfriend Kristien had no problems getting to talk to both him and Miguel, and all the other people there. I realize I have something special here.

Getting the word on all the industry gossip is fun too. There's going to be some exciting times ahead, and I'm glad to be some small part of it.

Interesting side note: neither of these two bigwigs had any clue that GNOME 2.4 was going to be released the next day. Go figure ! A surer sign of sellout has yet to be found, the corporate whores :)

On a side note, congratulations to all the rocking GNOME hackers for making my life better one byte at a time !

Dreaming

I've always wondered what part of the brain projects the dreams we get at night. Last night was particularly weird. I was dreaming I was at some sort of conference, and Nat and Miguel were speaking. And I was sitting somewhere out on the cement, and some other Ximian guys I had never seen were arriving. One was on a skateboard, and as he drove past, he was high-fiving all the other fanboys there, and he was just about to pass by me, and I reach out to high-five him. That's when I woke up because the motion of actually high-fiving him brought my head in direct contact with the monitor on the side of the bed, ouch.

I swear, I don't get what part of the brain decides to actually take an action in real life, outside of the dream, that you are doing in the dream as well. I think the people around me should be well scared if I did everything in reality as well as I do in my dreams.

GStreamer

So, the contestants are arriving and we have a definite list: Uraeus, David Schleef (just got here after the cab ride from hell), Ronald (getting from the train as we speak), Benjamin (coming in tomorrow), me and Julien.

I'm really wondering how well we will fare this time. Too bad neither Erik nor Wim are here.

Barcelona Down here for a day, Barcelona is great. Yesterday evening we met up with Nat and Miguel in some swanky restaurant down by the sea. We're still not sure...