An industrious and productive day. Finally persuaded ./configure to check for wvdial in the Gtkdial build process. Fixed some minor 0.3 bugs, installed the latest translations, and I think I'm about to package up a development release. Also learned a bit about consolehelper which will prevent lusers from playing with the new (and still immensely broken) editor component. Finally got Evolution built, after a nightmare trying to compile OpenLDAP 2.0.7.
After a weird few days where I've been strangely preoccupied with stuff I can't possibly change (possibly work-situation-related/post Principia startup blues?), feeling much better. Over to Burnham this morning, since the buses are sorted out - got some amazing views from Bleadon Hill on the way. Also writing code again for the first time in a while. Started work in earnest on the wvdial configuration editor for Gtkdial 0.3.x. This involved some relatively painful reminders about doubly-linked lists, and has resulted in some of the most appallingly obfuscated code I've ever written - still, the concept is solid!
I've come to the conclusion that I need to get some sort of job and fast, because I'm just short of things to do due to the week being 37 hours longer than usual. Using the i18n patch which Kjartan mailed, I've finally got Gtkdial working with translations, and updating correctly via xml-i18n-tools. Not 100% sure how I did it, but I can now break things and find out how to fix them. Still finding the word 'interrompi' strangely compelling. The washing machine here appears to be dead. Anoncvs seems to have delivered my a backwards update to gal 0.5.99.0, but Evolution wants 0.5.99.2.
Weird day. Some interest in Principia which makes me feel very happy! Later, a confusing and deeply boring time. Weirdly, practically everyone I know is busy elsewhere tonight, leaving me to discuss internationalisation (or i18n to the kids!) on #gnome. A little wiser, thanks to Kjartan Maraas, but still unsure what I've fscked up to prevent Luigi's Italian translations from installing.
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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.
