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Tweets for week ending 2010-06-06

Sunday, June 6th, 2010

Openismus day 4: more jhbuild (Is there anyone for whom this works?), read up on gmmproc, made my first patch with amigadave's help. #
Openismus day 3: opened bank account, more jhbuild, mailing lists, autotools tutorial, read a few "items" in "Effective C++." #
Openismus day 2: started building GNOME with jhbuild, went to doctor w/ Anni for ultrasound, more jhbuild, read mailing lists and c++ book. #
Finished first day at Openismus. Met some co-workers, set up computer, installed dev packages, configured accounts and ate falafel. #

Sunday, May 9th, 2010

What have I learned from 2 weeks with #OSX Every OS has it's problems. And to think I even partly believed the #OSX lore. I prefer #Ubuntu #
Just now when trying to type "united airlines" I inadvertently typed #ubuntu airlines. This is bad. #
Mom was to fly back home on Friday. Illness got worse and she's now in the Hospital here in SD. Not sure when/if she'll be able to fly back. #
Going to see Conan O'Brien tonight. Should be fun. #
Be nice and join the #ubuntu torrent swarm. Especially if you're on a fast university network. http://bit.ly/KmYqs #
The new #ubuntu with Long Time Support (LTS) is out. Nickname this time is Lucid Lynx. Get it here http://www.ubuntu.com #
Father in law got a flight for 4/26 and is back in Germany now. #airfrance refused any assistance with hotel. We had to drive to LA 3 times. #

Sunday, April 25th, 2010

Earliest flight from #LA to #Paris on #airfrance was 30/4 as of 20/4. Told to try standby daily. 5hr round trip from SD not going to happen. #
At LAX yesterday to help father-in-law rebook cancelled flight. #airfrance refused hotel being it's an act of god. Is this right? I say no. #

Saturday, April 17th, 2010

Engadget has some screenshots of the #MeeGo UI. Looks attractive. http://bit.ly/awOmvH #
Got my graduation tickets yesterday and black gown and orange tassel today. 5 weeks and I'm finished. In about 6 weeks I'm in Berlin. #
When adding Q_OBJECT to a class in QT4, one may get a undefined vtable error. Cleaning and rerunning qmake may fix this. uhg. #
Great! Qt4 and templates don't play well together. That was a good amount of time wasted to find out. #

Saturday, April 10th, 2010

In the name of procrastination I just installed Gnome Shell. First impressions are positive. Let's see how it plays out with some usage. #
My Nexus One's screen is kaput. There seems to be fine cracks under the top layer. It is dark purple and unreadable. No idea what happened. #
Earthquake caused quite a bit of shaking at our apartment. First one I've ever felt. After the recent earthquakes it's kind of scary. #