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, mail triage, misc. bug fixing; wrote to the IET
complaining at the lack of fact checking in their august organ; with
small boats (erroneously) generating more elextricity than the whole
of the UK, 248GW (instead of 24.8GW) of maximum small-scale hydro-power
potential in the UK and so on - there seems scope for improvement.
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Started to dig back through the admin mountain. Pleased to see
my LinuxTag
LibreOffice paper accepted. Tried to add 4Linux and Codethink to the TDF supporters
page, but realised the infrastructure somehow moved under me,
silverstripe it seems.
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Fixed a calc resource reading nasty. Preload staff meeting.
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Tried to use silverstripe to edit our web pages: really tried ...
wow the thing is still unbelievably bad (which I guess is mostly the web
being lame). Why have just one scroll-pane, when you can have two controlling
the same range of editing ? have magic styles on headings invisible to the
magic editor, create anchors you can't delete, make a hash of cut/paste
etc. etc. That is before you loose your data by clicking back (the key
carefully and helpfully placed next to left-arrow) by mistake which
really adds some flavour: roll on web editing for everything ! Arguably
it is at least uniformly terrible, frustrating etc. for everyone
regardless of competance (even if you end up editing the HTML by hand
anyway), which is a great social leveller and thus must be good.
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Apparently Religion may become extinct
in five nations. What total twaddle from the BBC, many creeds are in the
asendancy, not least the kind of Metaphysical Naturalism so increasingly
popular in concentric circles.
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)
