Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
SUSE which is an amazing company, and also
Dell who in days of yore provided me with a
free laptop for Gnome development / conferences.
Also if you have the time to read this sort of stuff you could enlighten
yourself by going to Unraveling Wittgenstein's net or if
you are feeling objectionable perhaps here.
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Up; mail chew, hand-held some odd Windows build issues - the
old plague of DOS line-endings coming back to bite. Patch review, got
the libreoffice-4-1 branch checked out and building.
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Lunch. Team meeting, ESC meeting, Vojtech's staff.
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Horrible damage in Oklahoma, encouraged to hear the first
response of this guy
on seeing his house not there anymore. Call with Vojtech, mail chew.
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Booked travel to the Hamburg
Hackfest - which should be great: June 15/16th. Chat with Florian.
Lunch. Partner call, filed expenses.
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Up early, maiol chew, poked at some calc performance regression
tests Kohei has written, call with him, stats crunching; ESC bug stats
& agenda collation; dinner.
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Up early, mail chew; plugged at some
make check failures,
and tested build pieces on Windows and Linux. Built slideware, Lunch. Back to
mail, debugging and patch review for the freeze. Worked late.
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Up lateish; NCC - visiting speaker: empty cross + tomb &
occupied throne. Back for lunch, Peter over - caught up with him through
the afternoon. Played with babes in the garden and slugged in the evening
happily.
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Up earlyish; mail chew, poked at builds, and helped babes
with games; M. struggling with the concept of minesweeper. Breakfast,
out to Noughton Park for a wander around - various tree climbing feats,
and a fine wander. Back for a disgracefully late, large, fried
breakfast/lunch thing.
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E. out to Sue's to play with Sophie; checked and re-started
a Windows build.
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Pleased to read theregister's take on 3D printed
guns - only for the incredibly wealthy, deranged individual that likes to
kill at ultra-close range. Annoyed by self promotion and the stupid knee-jerk
responses it produces. There is a photo of a far more dangerous, and
often cheaper device here,
with which you can make a reasonably functional gun that 'actually works(TM)'.
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One of the supreme amusements of life is that as soon as you do
anything you think is cool & new you find out it's already been done
before: see this neat new 3D printer thing ? turns out you didn't meet the
self-replicating "anyone who has a lathe can build a lathe" mob of
yesteryear (did you miss the industrial revolution perhaps ?). But wait !
surely these un-controllable, self-replicating 3D tools are a radical threat
to the civilised world ? - time to ban the lathe, milling machine,
drill-press ... toothbrush etc. ? Perhaps not.
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Dinner. Argh - git submodules just beat me up again when I least
needed it -
translations module acting stupidly, and refusing
to update - combined with trying to remove that submodule (can you even
remove submodules? - and failing).
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Mail chew, poked at misc. bugs; Team meeting, ESC meeting,
company meeting; worked late - J. feeling unwell, starting to sicken
slightly too.
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Up early; mail chew, merged gallery pieces. Partner call /
hand-holding, fixed up SDK packaging, fixed a few gallery snafus.
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Up early, packed babes off to school; into Cambridge to finish
the patching-up experience; what fun - apparently recovering well: good.
Hacked away at mail, and gallery cleanup while being tampered with.
Built ESC bug stats. Cell-group with Dave in the evening.
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Up early, mail chew; reviewed fixes for -4-0, built the latest
version of that. Plugged away at build problems with galleries; fixed
the evil translation code there. J's Pregnancy Crisis Centre AGM, worked
late. Nailed a nasty interpoloation problem with the (nice) new
high-quality image scaling.
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Up lateish; breakfast, out to NCC, Tony spoke. Back for a large
roast lunch. Afternoon of slugging, played computer games with H. N.
and M. got dunelegacy
going - nostalgia for that - still a really playable game, all these
years later - though you need to have the original data files (sadly).
Caught up with Robert, somehow.
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Up, breakfast, read the Economist a bit; J. out for a sponsored
walk, entertained the babes, did a bit of mail chew / gallery
de-lamification. Played Sleeping Queens with the babes, fed them; J.
back.
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Emptied one camera and backed it up; emptied Julia's phone
complete with photos of T-shirts kept for sentimental value (eg.
GUADEC 1.0) that really need to get thrown out to make way for
new ones: LibreOffice Conference Paris (1.0) eg. it seems action
must be taken before cabinet making is necessary to fix the
relevant (antique pine) chest of draws.
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Idly fixed the gnome-vfs / samba problems in 4.0 while
babes watched Madeline; tweaked more gallery bits. Bed
early.
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Up early, to work; mail chew. Interested to read Lionel's
The cost of being
convinced. That significantly under-plays the cost of discipleship - of
meeting the total moral claims of Christ, and surrendering control of your
life to him (though if you're worried about that, do a search on the
number of Christian books about how to try to discern Gods guidance outside
of clear scriptural commands; we have minds for a reason). In my experience -
those moral claims and change of direction, purpose and boss are the primary
stumbling blocks. Your view of the sanity of that of choice ultimately hinges
on your view of the character of God - a loving, Father, companion, friend - or
a petulant, capricious tyrant. Clearly there is no attraction to trusting
the latter so I'm convinced of the profound goodness (or holiness) of
the God I follow, making anything else rather un-attractive.
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More mail chew; pleased to see Caolan's update on the UI dialog
migration work here. Approaching 40% completion.
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Call, lunch. Noticed while dunging out old mail, that the DrMemory
had fixed the 5 or so bugs I suffered on Windows last time I played with
it: nice. Discovered a load of interesting gmail mail that I'd completely
ignored in the past - annoying: seems I missed a load of meals with passing
friends at conferences etc. a wedding invite, and more. Will start reading it.
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Poked at lots of hack-week projects, unwinding ones with unclear
status, trying to look for commits etc. Dinner. Back to the hackery in the
evening.
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Up early, to work, mail chew; sync. with Noel; pleased by the
great work the QA team are doing identifying duplicate bugs eg.
this one,
it's really great to see things cleaned up and associated into clusters
like that.
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Lunch, team meeting, ESC call. Vojtech's staff, up late.
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Up early; music practise with the babes, packed them off
to school. Mail chew, poked at slides, misc. admin. Dug through the
crazy gallery creation / loading code - and with David's help cleaned
up lots of building oddities. Up late.
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created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of SUSE, Novell, The
Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International), or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
