Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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This is my (in)activity log. You might like to visit my employer
Novell 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 early again; took H. & N. to school. Back, chewed half of the
mail, call with Noel. Poked at a mime association bug with Vincent.
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Accidentally read Jono's Book
Meme request, which - since expressed personally I gave in to. Hunted my
desk - a serious layering problem here, does the Private Eye count ? or the
IEE's pamphlet on Professional Engineering Registration (the end of
hackerdom?) - sadly neither are books. The ECMA Int'l Memento 2008, while
thick is not that book-like, which (sadly) leaves The Holy Blood and the Holy
Grail - the book from which (apparently) Dan Brown ripped much of his
material. Sadly,
this doesn't make the content any better - it's a diabolical and shambolic
disaster of a book - more excluded middles than a tube of polo mints.
Having said that, it's always worth reading the opposition - the more Von-Daniken-esque
the better I guess. P56, 5th sentence reads Were the parfaits so
committed to their beliefs that they willingly chose martyrdom instead
of conversion ? - a leading question that is obviously so, of course
juxtaposed with the next (un-quoted): another dumb leading question that
is obviously not so. If the recommendation had not come from Sun's Dan
Baigent (a relation of an author?) I'd pulp it; at least with Dan Brown
you get a gripping novel mixed in with the infamous nonsense.
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Poked at an annoying unzip charset issue - sadly it seems some tools
do not know about utf-8 still. Dinner with the babes, poked at the layout
code to dig out Janneke's problem, the property pieces need more thought
clearly.
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Interested by Bruce's
nice write up of the (sexy) Sun Presenter Console: ... so invaluable that you
might wonder why they are extensions instead of new features. - indeed.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Novell, The
Lithuanian Gov't or Arnold Schwarzenegger. It's also important to
realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences,
bio.
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@novell.com)
