Free Food (for Cowboys)

Today I discovered the fun of using Blam! to read CIA RSS feeds. It is a pleasant way to keep track of commits to projects I’m interested in, and I suspect I will be using it a lot in the future. Also today but far away in India Nat and Trow held a beagle hackfest and the results are impressive. The tomboy indexing alone would have made it notable but when you add all the other cool hacks it is positively inspiring. All told it was a very good day for Mono and Gnome so I won’t let the fact that I didn’t make any headway on the TextView problems bring me down.

Evolution 2.0 has finally been released and I’m still alive and passably sane. The actual release was sadly anticlimactic. Something that covered so much time, loss and pain seems like it should end with more than a slightly delayed announcement or two.

I tried out tomboy today, and was happily impressed. Then a little sweet talking from Alex ended up causing me several unproductive hours of bug hunting in Gtk#. Tomorrow I plan to share the pain with Mike.

It was my Mom’s birthday on Saturday so I spent the weekend in College Station visting family. While we where there the town was hit by its second infestation of love bugs this summer. Now even on good days I have a strong distaste for College Station, but if you add thick swarms of mating flies to mix it becomes nigh unbearable. Despite that we managed to have an excellent time celebrating.

Kristy at the pool

While I was there I managed to get a lot of f-spot hacking done at night after everyone had gone to sleep. I polished up the popup preview and added the start of a color correction dialog. Now that the feature list is starting to flesh out I’m getting a better feel for how to structure some of the internals and I’m excited to rework them a bit.

With that in mind try out f-spot 0.0.2