irukado

Aaron Seigo posted an entry on the dot about systrays applets vs. applications

Trying to be constructive about this... perhaps the issue isn't about system trays at all, but that people want to separate two different kinds of apps:

I see that Novell are still claiming some authority and innovation in the Linux world. I had almost expected them to be ashamed of themselves by now, and trying to slowly, gently make amends.

Lately I've been working on a preliminary proof-of-concept version of my PipeLine Interface. Currently, I'm calling this simply "workflow".

Well, my KDE4 port of KatchTV is on the backburner for a while, as KDE's Trunk doesn't seem to have compilable python bindings right now :(

It seems they're doing a remake of The Day the Earth Stood Still. That could potentially be an amazing thing! Given most remakes of classics lately though, it could well be a disaster. We'll see.

Wow, I just noticed that The Nonviolent Peaceforce is selling Peacebonds. These are a lot like the other charitable "alternative gifts" from the likes of Oxfam, for people who don't want to give yet more material junk at christmas etc. Generally they're a great idea, I think, but Peacebonds particularly catch my interest.

Yesterday I was trying to render an animation in Blender (of my "Manta" model; see image) Manta Model. Blender kept crashing though, and so I'm now working on it in Modo instead.

So this is my new site, and new blog. I'll be importing all of my old blog entries and keeping things up to date, but for the moment, this is it.