Its very late, my head and eyes ache, and I want to go to sleep and have another of the funny and strange dreams which seem to have haunted my sleep for the past few days. Spent much of today packaging GNOME 1.4 ("Tranquility"/"Fifth Toe") stuff, fixing .spec files and suchlike along the way. The chessboard finally found an appreciative audience. Pretty much sorted out arrangements for GUADEC this coming weekend, including getting my DKK.
Productive day. Early start - shopping. Had no idea how much chisels cost! Borrowed one instead, but did purchase a speculative birthday present. Lots of work throughout the day on the chess board (and I have scars to prove it). Finally finished it at about 7pm but couldn't find anyone around to display it to! Released gtkdial 0.3.5 and announced it everywhere.
Hmm...its time to divide this page again. Maybe later. Spent much of the day doing woodwork for the first time in fifteen years! My first chessboard is almost complete, and pending a visit to the tool shop tomorrow, looks like it will be finished very soon. Useful feedback arriving on gwvedit (ie. it only works for me!). Lots of silly April Fool stuff around the web keeps me entertained.
Managed to solve weird and persistent lpd problems by recompiling from source. Finally got Gnoetry and updated one or two other things which had slipped by. Went to purchase the wood and other bits and bobs for Project Chessboard - which may even see fruition before GUADEC. Brief wanderings cheer me somewhat, but there is strangeness about, or I'm paranoid (both probably!). Nice, unexpected gtkdial feedback, and a Turkish translation from Kabalak.
Lost::MikeGTN
I've had a home on the web for more years than I care to remember, and a few kind souls persuade me it's worth persisting with keeping it updated. This current incarnation of the site is centred around the blog posts which began back in 1999 as 'the daylog' and continued through my travels and tribulations during the following years.
I don't get out and about nearly as much these days, but I do try to record significant events and trips for posterity. You may also have arrived here by following the trail to my former music blog Songs Heard On Fast Trains. That content is preserved here too.
