Marcus D. Hanwell's Blog

I am sure you have heard by now about the KDE 4.0.0 release made yesterday. Currently my desktop machine is on a boat in the middle of the Atlantic somewhere, my laptop is broken and I only have access to Apple systems... I was able to check out KDE 4 and test it in a VM and it is looking good.

I haven't been able to help with Gentoo packaging of KDE 4 very much at all which is a shame. I should get my desktop back at the end of the month in my new home in Pittsburgh. I also couldn't attend the release event as I am attending my graduation ceremony on the 17th of January. Hope you guys really enjoy the event and if I could have moved things around to attend I certainly would have.

There is lots of stuff I hope to be able to do for KDE 4.1, and more specifically Kalzium, once I get my desktop back at the end of the month. Avogadro already has lots of improvements including a KGraphicsView based periodic table which I think Carsten is interested in me getting into Kalzium 4.1.

Enjoy the release event and remember to raise a glass to those of us unable to make it for various reasons

I haven't been keeping up with XKCD since my laptop stopped working - never set up my RSS feeds for the few comics I used to regularly read. I thought I would catch up and this one really made me laugh - I guess geek humour is alive and well!

Along with the one linked to from slashdot about the Googlebomb caused by the died in a blogging accident which I may have just added to now I guess.

I thought I would join in, a little late, with the posts about 2007. I think it is good to reflect at times. Please feel free to skip this whole post if you were hoping for something more focussed. For me 2007 has really been a roller coaster of a year filled with highs and lows. If I were ever to write my memoirs this one would probably go down as the most surreal so far.