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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Prodded mail, listened to a talk by Scott Berkun (of
Confessions of a Public Speaker prepping for giving a
good OSCON talk. An unusual, albeit obvious, approach - trying
to make your speakers' talks better beforehand. Rather a good
talk too.
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Stumbled upon rather a sexy turing
machine. Prodded at bugs.
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We released SLED11-SP1,
which is rather sexy; and with a substantially refreshed GNOME stack,
keeping it relevant and fixing ever more bugs. It's working really
well for my hacking workstation (at least).
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Tried to get excited about 'Draw Muhammed' day; of course,
taking a stand for free speech sounds like a good thing; but then I
don't like gratuitously offending people, as a matter of course; also -
I can't draw for toffee - so this will have to do. Muhammed:
O:-#.
I can see why a minority of Muslims might find that offensive, if so,
apologies; I like Muslims as well as Atheists, and other-eists. Yet the
right to free expression is a bedrock of a liberal democracy, and is too
precious to lose to a new tyranny of self-censorship.
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Poked at PackageKit some more; apparently dbus message
timeouts are (as well as being extraordinarily unhelpful) not so
good for slower machines.
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Transferred the OO.o code-base across to the new machine,
should really do some speed trials there.
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)
