Dunno why, but I just had that song “Here I go again on my own…” in my head just then … Anyway, in the real world, today was the last day of Induction Week at college. Well, not quite, because tomorrow is the Focus [student spouses' group] induction. Now I know I’m a student rather …

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home.rubberturnip.org.uk and gallery.rubberturnip.org.uk have been down for most of the day because of electrical work at the house. Once I got back from college, I opened up the machine they ran on as well to take out some dead hardware (crappy 6 year or so old ATA-66 card and 2 hard drives, 40G and 12G …

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“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble …” “The anti-war protester Cindy Sheehan was arrested yesterday after she and hundreds of others demonstrated outside the White House.” What happened to her freedom of speech or association?

Have patched OTS to build with GCC 4.x, and am now building the new version of the stable abiword tree (2.2.10), will then rebuild abiword-beta 2.3.99 so both have the OTS plugin enabled again. In other news, the latest gimp-beta is already uploaded, it’s version 2.3.4. Don’t expect huge differences from Friday’s package other than …

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Officially as of yesterday, because that’s when the new academic year really started. So yesterday afternoon was the reception to welcome the new students to college, we had afternoon tea with lots of cakes, and it was lovely. In the evening, we went to the Cadland which was also lovely. We’d spent the morning at …

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Uploading beagle 0.1.0 packages, along with updated versions of some dependencies. The packages have pretty well every possible option enabled, including the Epiphany extension, although that’s in a separate sub-package. Also, some of the packages are available optimised for i686, as well as the usual i586. You may want to delete the content of ~/.beagle/Indexes …

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Congratulations to Neil and Emma who had delivery this evening of Lauren Elisabeth, weighing in at 8lb 11oz just after 18:00 BST. Mother and baby both doing well.

Uploaded gimp-beta packages. The package version is 2.3.3.20050923 because it’s today’s CVS. Thanks to Justin for changing the config on Planet SUSE to use the UTF-8 character set, accented characters are now displayed correctly.

Remember my ideal portable audio device? Well, I think I’d like to add a couple of extra features that would make this the perfect thing to carry around: PalmOS powered PDA Mobile phone (doesn’t have to be 3G or anything) Clam shell/flip design* If any company wants to make a quick buck (well, pound…) make …

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Welcome to Planet SUSE, Andreas. Andreas created the Yoper distro, but now works for Novell, and is responsible for the SUPER branch of the OpenSUSE project. Also, Andreas has helped me demonstrate that the new Planet code doesn’t fix the Blogger/Atom problem inadvertently.