http://www.robster.org.uk/blog The monkey with the keyboard! Fri, 16 May 2008 00:04:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://www.robster.org.uk/blog/2008/05/16/oh-the-pain/ 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 ... http://www.robster.org.uk/blog/2008/04/04/blood-sweat-and-tea-on-the-radio/ 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 ... http://www.robster.org.uk/blog/2008/03/21/i-guess-im-boring-but/ 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. http://www.robster.org.uk/blog/2008/03/10/cunning-tip/ 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 ... http://www.robster.org.uk/blog/2008/03/08/fennel/ Today I got a new toy from Ross, a Canon 50mm f/1.8 lens. He was one of my first victims. Inspired by Luis i've made all my photos CC BY-SA-NC. It seems like the next logical step since the main rreason I take photos and upload them to Flickr is to ... http://www.robster.org.uk/blog/2008/03/04/new-toy/ So, Ross went ahead and spoilt my fun by announcing the funky new Poky site with the awesomely cute Beaver mascot. I've been spending the last few weeks getting the release together and testing on some of our new hardware platforms. My main contribution to this release however was the awesome ... http://www.robster.org.uk/blog/2008/03/04/meet-the-beaver/ Since Clutter 0.6 was released today i've been building packages like mad. You can fetch them for the components released today (core, cairo, gst and gtk) from the OH repository at debian.o-hand.com. This includes packages built for Ubuntu 'gutsy' and Debian unstable. Packages for the bindings will also be uploaded when the ... http://www.robster.org.uk/blog/2008/02/18/clutter-06-packages/ Awesomeness. Thanks to Jeff for organising it. My talks went really well, thanks to everyone who attended, asked questions and gave feedback. Huge kudos to the other participants. Some great things were shown off and discussed. I'd also like to use this opportunity to promote Josh Stewart's Gloss. It's a replacement MythTV ... http://www.robster.org.uk/blog/2008/01/30/gnome-conf-au/ So, if i've put my Oyster card through the wash does that mean i've broken the money laundering rules? And, more importantly, is it still going to work? http://www.robster.org.uk/blog/2008/01/23/oyster-card/