Present Perfect

House

Sent in the termination letter for our house. Feels weird. It seems like only yesterday when we all moved in together. Lots of stuff we did do, and a whole bunch of things we just plain never got round to, like a housewarming party. Peter, one of the four, is sitting next to me, slowly taking in the fact that he will be leaving two weeks before the end, and taking away his furniture, and that that last month is going to suck.

Now I need to start deciding stuff like where will I live next, what sort of house, and so on. Imagining this stuff is fun, but it'll take time to decide.

Gnucash

Had to catch up on 1.5 years of backlog of billing info and invoices for the house account. The thing that was holding me back was that I wanted to convert my accounts to EUR as if BEF never existed; ie, change currency to EUR and divide all amounts by 40.3399.

Sadly, there was no wizard or anything for that, Gnucash does the accounting-wise correct thing of creating conversion accounts. Which is way above what I need for our house account.

I had planned back then to start investigating what database Gnucash uses and hopefully write some sort of patch to do what I want.

Having forgotten all about that, I now need to clean up the accounting, and took another crack at it.

About five minutes later I realized that Gnucash uses XML for its storage. I was so happy I could cry. A simple python script and half an hour later, and everything was in EUR as if BEF never existed.

For what I want to do with it (and I'm not an expert bookkeeper), Gnucash is amazingly perfect. I especially like the completion features.

Muzak

I got freaked out at the bank when I recognized the song the in-house muzak was playing : 'No Rain' by Blind Melon. Who decides what songs get muzakified ? And is it a good or bad thing that this sort of song gets done as muzak ?

GStreamer

People wanted a release, so I decided to give it a shot. This is for inclusion in GNOME 2.4 Beta 2. I've been conservative about what patches I commited, but I still need to learn to say no and not give in to peer pressure :)

There are some patches I might not feel 100% comfortable about. Anyway, I'm hoping to get two solid tarballs out before I go to sleep.

Dave/Dina

Psyched to be able to work on it a lot in the near future. As for using it, this screenshot says a lot. Over 1000 CD's... My own collection is just about done, I'll have to start buying new CD's again.

Work

I have two working days left. It'll be a scramble of transfering stuff, getting my personal belongings out, making backups of my laptop that I'm about to lose, and so on.

Music

I spent over 200 euro on concert tickets for the next few months. A bunch for Tom McRae, Ed Harcourt and Maximilian Hecker, Spiritualized, Six By Seven and Tindersticks. Woah. And a Radiohead concert to look forward to as well.

This weekend I went to see Gotan Project live and for free on the big market in Brussels. Even though their set was just about completely the same as two years ago, I still enjoyed it immensely. Just a shame there was neither room nor floor to dance...

House Sent in the termination letter for our house. Feels weird. It seems like only yesterday when we all moved in together. Lots of stuff we did do, and a...