Total Lack of Passion or Momentum
I found this blog entry from Dave Neary the other day and share his sentiments. Namely, I'm not particularly enamored with what I do for a living (Retail Pharmacy--it's not painful to the point of death, but it's not something that I'm passionate about, to be sure), and would absolutely LOVE to work with a company that not only embraces the Open Source desktops (GNOME, KDE, etc., etc.), but also actively participates in their development. From what I've seen, Redhat and Novell do this, but I've not been successful in getting anyone's attention with my resume-submissions. =:/
GMail and IMAP
Hah, made you look.
Fix this door
This, the newest home improvement project that I’ve been forced into, shall likely be just as non-fun as all the others. =:/ Some water damage (caused by the extremely old and rusted-out previous cellar door) has gotten into the door jam and drywall in the bottom, left section of my inside basement door. I’ve ripped off the corner edging and my next job will be trying to find a matching door jam thingey (the entire left side of the door frame) at the local Home Depot.
Lack of time, lack of discipline
I've been meaning to blog about this very open and honest post from a certain KDE developer's blog. I'll quote some of it here and then comment below...
Hi, it’s me
Wow. Long time no blog.
What’s going on, today
Miscellany meanderings....
KDE Maintainers’ Release Duties
Was going through my month+ of Plucker URLs and came across this post from Stephan Binner regarding the responsibilities of a KDE contributor. Very informative and common-sense, though I hadn't thought of several of them. =:)
KDE project activity tracker
Gtk+ theme changes not… changing… in SuSE
This one threw me for a loop.
OpenSuSE, one week later
Beta3 of OpenSuSE was released yesterday and I dutifully updated overnight last night. One snag I hit was a ton of conflicts from the cairo upgrade, but thanks to darix on #opensuse, I simply changed "update all with newer versions" in yast2 to "update all unconditionally" and Bob was my Uncle. And after having upgraded, the system is still remarkably stable and fast.