After much hacking about with them, my CVS versions of Evolution et al are all installed and working - I've even managed to get live spell-checking in the composer working thanks to gnome-spell. A blanket of snow covers Weston this morning - and last night I had my first snowball fight in many, many years. More fiddling about with gpuce this afternoon. Had minor success with latest Galeon after much headache and gratuitous symlinking!
Had a really happy, relaxing and memorable day yesterday, and finally got to bed very very late indeed after being seen dancing (imagine!). Back to serious stuff today however, with a Burnham trip cancelled I set about finally ending my year of wimping out, and building Evolution and associated bits and bobs from CVS. Still fiddling as I write at 23:02, but I've managed to hack my way through a broken header file in gnomeprint and messed about with a bunch of Makefiles to get gal built. Confidence improving by the minute.... Really need some sleep now though.....
A surprise trip to London. Spend the entire day in Tate Modern completely losing track of time. Had a fantastic time, and I'm now utterly knackered! Next major task is to upgrade to even newer glibc packages provided by RedHat. Is my system back to some kind of standard yet?
A more relaxing day on the whole. With Gtkdial relatively stable, turned my attention to my other bubbling GNOME app, gpuce. Whilst some have called it an obsessional and worrying application, I see it more as an exploration of IMLIB and Gdk images. Anyway, it works and the package includes 35 hand picked images including Mr.Bristow's classic "blue face" portrait. Anyway had a nice extended lunchtime and learned quite a bit despite becoming incredibly frustrated by GnomePrint. Never mind, Nigella was on TV later and I grabbed loads of Cat Power MP3s - a reasonable day.
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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.
