My iRiver T60 has died after only 6 months of occasional use. This sucks. But since this is my 3rd MP3 player in ~ 2 years I feel i’m somewhat cursed in my ability to lose/break them. So my question is this: If I go into John Lewis (because it’s easy to take back if when it stops working) on Saturday and buy a shiny shiny iPod shuffle and turn myself into a complete sell-out will it *just* work with Rhythmbox 0.11.5? Will it just work or will I need to find a Mac to activate it or something painful like that?
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Packages for Clutter 0.8 have been uploaded to the Debian archive and to the OpenedHand Debian repository. There are packages available for Debian unstable and Ubuntu hardy (no gutsy i’m afraid, glib is too old.)
And in completely unrelated news thanks to everyone involved in the organisation of GUADEC: Good work guys!
Despite a couple of false starts with the Flickr group (thanks Claudio for nudging me), the group should now be ready to accept your photos!
Since Kristian’s excellent GTK State of the Union talk was today his slot is now available for a Patchsquad BOF. So that’s tomorrow at 11am. Thanks Behdad for allowing us to grab this.
A little background on the idea of a Patchsquad: Primarily the idea is to reduce the workload of maintainers by commenting, not reviewing, patches that are waiting in Bugzilla. This may include testing, checking for obvious issues and gentle pestering of maintainers. Lucas held a BOF last year to introduce the idea that was well attended and a lot said but interest seems to have twindled. Myself and Diego want to try reinvigorate the idea!
Update: Whoops! Looks like we haven’t got that slot afterall. If you’re interested in the Patchsquad pleas some along and speak to either Diego or myself.
Lesson for today: avoid situations such that the GObject dispose vfunc gets called on the same object from different threads interleaved with each other. Bad things happen.
I’ve just finished listening to the broadcast of a radio play based on Blood, Sweat and Tea a collection of posts from by favourite blog Random Acts of Reality. Random Acts is written by “Tom Reynolds” (a pseudonym) an EMT with the London Ambulance service. I guess I enjoy reading this blog so much because it shows an insight into the lives of members of an essential but very much unappreciated occupation. Well worth adding to your daily blog intake.
Direct listen again link. Playing in the browser is all garbled :-/
I still can’t get the hang of RSS feed aggregators. There is something about the Google reader’s uniformity that I find unsettling. Block after block of text all neatly laid out. But… it is really useful to keep track of those feeds that aren’t listed on the the planets like Random Acts of Reality, MySociety and Cook (almost) Anything at Least Once.
So, I was cheered up no end to discover they have a “Next” bookmarklet. Once added to your toolbar or whatever this lets you go to your next unread post in the page where the post comes from. Yay, no more uniformity, yay, personal expression. Oh, but everyone is using Kubrick.
Shoes get caught when trying to put on waterproofs? Simply place a carrier bag over your shoe. Your foot will then glide smoothly through without getting snagged.
Essential advice for anyone braving the elements in the UK tonight.
So. I bought some fennel from Borough Market and couldn’t really decide what to do with it. Since I needed to make flapjack I thought i’d maximise the use of the oven and make a spicy roast vegetable soup. So here is the recipe:
Take some carrots, peel them (despite them being the sort you don’t need to peel but they’ve since gone a bit ick in the fridge) and slice in half. Then chop fennel and two medium onions into the same size chunks. Place them in a deepish tray and drizzle with lots of olive oil. Then sprinkle over salt, sage and black pepper. Place in a lowish oven (~120) for half an hour or so. Shaking in the middle.
Just before you are going to take the veg out of the oven melt around 50g of butter in a largeish saucepan and put the kettle on. Dump the veg into the butter and sweat for a little bit. Use some of the hot water from the kettle to scrub off any tasty bits from the roasting tray (not going to be much if it’s non-stick). Next, put two heaped teaspoons of boullion powder (or a stock cube or two) in with the vegetables and add water until they are reasonably covered. Add chilli flakes and some black pepper. Bring to the boil and then simmer for 10 minutes.
Next is the messy part. Take off the heat and use a blender to blend until the texture is thick with the odd interesting bit. Put back onto the heat. Bring back to the boil and simmer for another 5 minutes. Season to taste, adding a bit of fresh parsley at the last minute.
