Another day of relative freedom. Did some minor work on gtkdial in preparation for 0.4.0. Early GP appointment is encouraging. Less than productive time at the library - but pretty impressed with Weston library (and sort of embarassed I'd not visited in the past four years!). Embarked on the great Country'n'Western taping project - transferring a bunch of old LPs to tape. Pretty funny, especially Waylon Jennings doing "Theme from Dukes of Hazzard". Redeemed myself with amazing Kingsbury Manx CD. Plans for tomorrow include another Bristol visit, involving complex bus manouvres. Just waking up on time might be the hardest part....
A day off - which would have been part of the Birmingham Expo, or indeed a trip to Cambridge, but instead is a mad dash through Bristol. Caught up with ex-colleagues briefly, visited the archives at the Central Library, tried once again to find somewhere which could sell me Pernice Brothers tickets, no luck. Picked up the Kingsbury Manx CD - not had a moment to listen to it yet - still transfixed by the American Analog Set release which arrived on Monday. Reasonably impressed by the 'Open Source Community' response to world events - the debate has been measured and thought-provoking on the whole. Personally feel that ESR could have left his personal gripes about US gun law out of things for a while at least - there will no doubt be plenty of time for dissection of events later. This evening was pretty funny - a fondue party - really sorted out the hunter-gatherer types, with some people working efficiently enough to consume twice as much food as others! Metadiscussion again follows. I feel OK though - I really do!
Who on earth needs another personal account of today's events?
Missed an early train to Burnham, but got the 10:00am bus. Became a very hot day somewhere during the journey. Went with my parents to view their soon to be new car, along with brother-in-law. Received SMS message from Kabalak to say that gtranslator 0.39 was ready for packaging whilst en route back to Weston. Built RPMs and messed with SourceForge for a bit. Cleaned house. Decided to hack on gtkdial for a bit. Finally fixed weird pseudo-session management bug which had put me off working on it. Cleaned up other bits and prepped for release. On a roll now, I set about fixing the build process for gwvedit. A nasty hack got the RPMs building, so that too is practically release ready, except for a late bugreport from Germany!
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.
