http://www.hortont.com/blog code + craziness Tue, 30 Jun 2009 03:17:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en It's been way too long since I've written here; and, it's going to stay that way for now, unfortunately. I'm just going to quickly copy my weekly status reports for the first five weeks of GSoC in here, to share... Week 1 Hi, all! I was in Barcelona at UDS last week, so ... http://www.hortont.com/blog/2009/06/end-of-june-gsoc-status-update/ Another WWDC three thousand plus miles away :-) I'm happy with the new laptops and Snow Leopard stuff (30$!); sad about the severe lack of Steve; angry about the fact that upgrading my phone at some point in the future might be a very expensive operation; and completely confused about ... http://www.hortont.com/blog/2009/06/wwdc-keynote/ During one of my first conversations with my GSoC mentor, Thomas H.P. Andersen, he suggested that we set up a Launchpad PPA. A PPA would be a great way for people (people using Ubuntu, at least) to get ahold of the very latest work being done with Gnome Games, provide ... http://www.hortont.com/blog/2009/06/get-your-fresh-games-here/ There are lots of pictures at Flickr. There are some below, interspersed throughout the words, too... Say what?! On Saturday, just after 10PM, Delta flight 6372 from JFK to BTV landed on the tarmac in Burlington, and I was able to breathe a sigh of relief! I was finally home, after my ... http://www.hortont.com/blog/2009/06/uds-karmic-koala-or-btv-to-bcn-and-back/ Today more or less officially starts coding for GSoC; however, I'm leaving for Barcelona (for UDS) at 10AM. To offset the fact that I'm going to be missing for the first week, I started hacking on the clutter-0.9/modern-seed version of Lights Off. You can check it out if you want, ... http://www.hortont.com/blog/2009/05/lights-off-tiles/ Quite often, my background on Kaylee is a picture I've recently taken... here's twenty of my favorite past backgrounds that I took (including the squirrel in Albany which I'm currently using), all CC-BY-NC-SA, so you can have fun: P.S. There's Seed-y, Cluttery, shiny stuff coming soon, hopefully! Then, Barcelona! http://www.hortont.com/blog/2009/05/backgrounds/ It would appear that I've been added to Planet GNOME as a result of my summer job working on GNOME Games as a part of Google Summer of Code, so I figured it would only be appropriate if I introduced myself! I started out as a lurker in this community almost ... http://www.hortont.com/blog/2009/05/hello-planet-and-about-gamesgsoc/ I'm leaving RPI today, so I'm pulling an all-nighter to get my side of the room back into proper working order and move all of my stuff into the lounge. Sehrish is coming at 10, so I have six more hours to clean. I seem to have made a mistake, ... http://www.hortont.com/blog/2009/05/quick-notes/ I was just thinking about how I'm going to make the move to FreeBSD+ZFS for Jayne, and decided to write down a few things I want to fix with my computers and stuff this summer. That turned into a rather extensive set of instructions for getting Jayne transitioned, so I ... http://www.hortont.com/blog/2009/05/summer-computer-stuff/ About a month ago, I bought a Nikkor 135mm f/2.8 pre-AI lens. It turns out that my D80 doesn't accept pre-AI lenses - oops! - but, luckily, Robb's D40 does! So, I (with some sadness) gave the lens to Robb... it was cheap, and it's pretty awesome, so he might ... http://www.hortont.com/blog/2009/04/new-old-glass/