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It’s been a while since I’ve blogged (I blame Twitter), and I had an interesting week, this last, so I figured I’d blog about it. Probably should be a bunch of individual posts, but blef and here goes….
Yesterday was an awesome end to an otherwise already pretty good week. I got to play Tetrinet with [...]

I’m out in California this week (belated warning) again, WOOT! I got to spend another awesome weekend at the Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit. This year, Leo and I were the official KDE representatives, but Thiago, Simon, Ariya, and Olivier got to join in on the fun too. And then today and tomorrow are [...]

So I spent a couple of hours tonight hacking on KPilot instead of going to bed like a smart little boy (sorry, honey!!! =:( ), and I fixed a couple of nagging problems that’ve been bugging me for months that I’ve just not been able to find the time to dig in and investigate. I [...]

Since I have several times been rather loud in my… we’ll call it “encouragement”… for Google to provide IMAP access to their hosted GMail mail, it’s only fair that I’m equally loud in my gratitude and accolades now that they’ve done just that!!
Woot!!
Although they don’t explicitly list KMail as a supported client on their setup [...]

Blame it on Seb, but I’ve been using Gmail’s web interface lately. This is partly because I’m in the middle of another life-changing job transition (but this one I’m really excited about, aside from the great white sharks and the triangle of death), partly because I like change (and after having used nothing but [...]

I had absolutely the most amazing time at this year’s Google Summer of Code Mentor’s Summit. I’m sure I’ll sound like quite the gushing fan-boy, but so be it.
I’ve been involved in the KDE project for the last couple of years. I can thank Adriaan deGroot fully for getting me hooked, and also [...]

Our little KPilot Summer of Code project that Bertjan and I are co-laboring on is going fairly well.
We’re working through finalizing the Use Case, with me helping out with some word-smithing and architectural review (http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdepim/kpilot/conduits/base/design/ ).
Bertjan has started doing Class and Sequence diagrams for the main and alternate flows (http://websvn.kde.org/trunk/KDE/kdepim/kpilot/conduits/base/design/bouml-design/ ).
We’re pretty much on-track [...]

Coming to a town near you!!! Well, okay, not quite, but we’re making progress. Here’s a tentative schedule:

SOC Schedule for Bertjan, Kpilot, 2007

 
 
 
 

 
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May 28: Students begin coding for their GSoC projects; Google begins issuing initial student payments

Week 01
May 28, 2007
Jun 2, 2007
Write Use Case documentation of all conduit flows

Week 02
Jun 4, 2007
Jun 9, [...]

Woohoo!! It’s official!! This year, KDE is once again participating in Google’s Summer Of Code (SOC), and we have 40 projects that have been approved by Google! Thankfully, KDE PIM has more than a couple of approved projects (which is really good news!!). Also, I will be a mentor this year [...]

As written about previously, I’ve decided to let Google’s Apps For Your Domain handle all of the e-mail for my domain. What this means is that for all incoming and outgoing e-mail I’ll have them saved permanently (as permanently as 2 gigs of space allows at least) stored in GMail for my domain users [...]

I fought this stupid thing for a good few days with no luck (and loss of sleep, etc.) and I finally found the solution.
I’m using Google’s Apps For Your Domains as the e-mail server for my domain. First, there’s the 2 gigs of storage per user. Also, it’s a nice solution for long-term [...]

As posted previously, it’s been a good 2 years with vortexhost.com, but I’m feeling the need to get more and possibly spend less.  Now, the thing that is not negotiable with all of this is my e-mail.  I can stand downtime on my website every once in a GREAT while, but if I am ever [...]

My most favoritest headphones just died on me recently.  They were cheapo Jensen behind-the-head headphones, but they had amazingly good sound and fit me perfectly (like comfortable, broken-in shoes).  I used them with my iPod, and everything else.  *sniffle*  But alas, one side of the stereo headphone has stopped working entirely (which sort of defeats [...]

Warning: a brain dump followeth:
Blockbuster has sweetened their deal by allowing in-store trade-ins of online-rented movies. This, to me, blows NetFlix out of the water, since NetFlix does not yet have a brick-and-mortar presence anywhere (?). And, because we signed up with Blockbuster a while ago, we still get to keep our 2 [...]

So, yes, I’ve joined the Borg once again and have started playing with Google’s BrowserSync Firefox extension. I decided to import all of my old Opera bookmarks and then (silly me) expected BrowserSync to be able to feed them all up to The Borg Collective (I mean the main Google server). What I [...]

Got your attention, did I?
I run Linux on my Apple G4 Powerbook, which means that I don’t have the luxury of such niceties as… oh, I don’t know… FLASH!?!?! So I was happy to find that even though I can’t view Google Video’s Flash-based movies, I can easily enough still play them on my [...]