Returned from a nice holiday with the family, ready to go back to work. Sampled some “Americana” since I was in Myrtle Beach: southern barbecue, Fuddruckers. Finished off a couple of fiction books. Visiting Boston next week.
Firefox Fun: Looking through about:config the other day, I saw browser.search.openintab, hurray! Saves me from hitting Ctrl-T everytime I do a search.
The team at Novell responsible for GNOME have been quiet in openSUSE for sometime, even though we already have several great external contributors like James Ogley and Andreas Hanke and we’ve pushed in significant general technologies like Compiz/Xgl, NetworkManager and Beagle. All this is changing though, we’ve had an IRC channel for a while but we haven’t really advertised it (#opensuse-gnome on irc.freenode.net) and we have an opensuse-gnome mailing list as well now (sign up here).
Michael Wolf has been pushing in GNOME 2.17 in to Factory and the GNOME:UNSTABLE build service. There is also GNOME Team page if you are so inclined to get involved.
Bastien is indeed a big football fan. During GUADEC last year in a local Spanish bar we sat and watch France-Spain in the world cup. Standing up and screaming for France’s goal gave me some concern for my personal safety…