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I have updated my blog to WP 2.7.1 now. Sadly some pages became a victim of the update-process or my tiredness *sigh³* I hope the spammers are happy now.

Thanks to whoever tinkered with my RSS-feed and injected that viagra spam. Now I’ve to stay up all night and update the WordPress installation. There is nothing more enjoyable in by boring life, I can assure you that! Your skillful efforts help me keeping me away from from spending my nugatory time working on Ubuntu.

Should you ever encounter me in real life and happen to be such a saint, who writes or uses this of spam-boon, please identify yourself as such to me. I’ll tear out your spine, ripp off your head and s**t in your throat … while burning the rest of you alive! You think talk is cheap … I hear you. Try me!

I really like gnome-do 0.8 (using it’s docky interface). A very nice side-effect, of using this combination, is that it very bluntly shows you which icons do not come in high resolution versions.

Although the page about notification development guidelines isn’t done yet, I’ve finished the C, Python and C#-examples provided there. These examples are self-contained and act as a good copy&paste source for anybody who wants to adapt existing or new code to the jaunty notifications. You’ll see correct checking of daemon capabilities and name. For a better overview of the different layout-cases screenshots are shown too. I’ll try to complete that page this week.

I just added support for the icon-only layout-case and updated the bar-rendering (used for displaying a value, e.g. brightness or volume) to notify-osd. The screencast below is driven by a shell-script using notify-send, thus the combination of bubbles does not reflect a “real world”-scenario you’ll encounter.

(click to play back, ogv/theora, ~3 MBytes)
Giving a brief update of visible progress in notify-osd is something I hope to do more frequently now. Doing this is eating precious time, but I hope the bling-hungry folks in the community enjoy it.

There is something slick and stylish coming your way within the next few hours. Hope you will like it. And where that’s coming from, there is even more! cairo for the win

I’d like to hear from anybody, who is using the bzr-plugin bisect successfully.

Doing something simple as …

bzr bisect start
bzr bisect yes -r n

… does fail. For some funny and unknown reason it sets the good revision to n/2 and not n.

Thanks in advance!

After just arriving home - coming back from the jaunty sprint in Berlin and surprisingly feeling fresh and highly motivated - I will be able to make it to FOSDEM at least tomorrow … WICKED! Too bad I missed all the Xorg-related talks today, but at least tomorrow I am not going to miss anything … Bruxelles here I come!