Something interesting happened today. As my wife and I talked about the economic bailout during dinner, we didn’t notice that Yv, my soon-to-be-seven-year-old was paying close attention to what we were saying. The following is a pretty close description of the dialogue that followed: Yv: … where are they getting US$700? Me: They’re taking the mine from us and every other family. Yv: Have they asked you if it is ok to do it?

I felt compelled to blog about this great site full of amazingly professional Inkscape screencasts! Screencasters.Heathenx.org is an amazing blog that I have been following for a while and I highly recommend it for those who want to learn a trick or two or for anyone who wants to see a well done screencast!

BillReminder has attracted a new enthusiast who has brought a lot of interesting ideas to the mailing list. The coolest part is that we both share a lot of ideas in common and I have already started to write some code to pave the way to more reporting and some true home accounting features. After spending some time changing the charting module from the hamster-applet project to do what I needed, I came to learn about a pretty cool project for graphing with Cairo and Python called CairoPlot!

Congratulations to all parties involved!!! As always, you can count on a 100% translated Brazilian Portuguese edition!

Just created the following Ubuntu Brainstorm idea called “Translation workflow and collaboration with upstream”. It is based off the blueprint I created a while back in an attempt to improve the relationship between Ubuntu and upstream translation projects. Everyone who knows me well knows how important translations are to me! How I strive to get people to always work with upstream and then let their work trickle down to distributions!

With the soon to be released GNOME version 2.24, you’ll find the new version for Cheese, a pretty slick application that “allows you to take photos, videos, and anything else you can think of with your webcam.” My kids and I have spent quite some time playing with the special effects, often combining a bunch of them to see who could come up with the silliest shot. When Daniel asked me if he could use some of my shots to create a tour for the new release, it gave us one more reason to play with Cheese.

Take a picture of yourself right now. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture. Post that picture with NO editing. Post these instructions with your picture.

Everyone who knows me online or is used to seeing me hanging out on several IRC channels or posting messages in my Twitter/Identi.ca accounts may have noticed my absense these last few weeks. Work, family and school have really kept me on my toes and my “social” life had to take the back seat. I want to believe that I have done a decent job at juggling all the tasks I have been assigned, even if it means to do my school assignments while I eat lunch, as I did today!

It is with extreme pleasure that I annound the release of BillReminder "Royale with cheese" version 0.3.2! This released was concentrated on fixing bugs, adding more translations, and getting some work done for future reporting features. Straight from the NEWS file, here’s what you’ll find in this release: Bugs: Paid/Not Paid entries exist in File and Edit menus; Make them toggle/untoggle appropriately (Bug #13) Issues with date and time locale?

From the same people that brought you Frank Sumatra, I present you Bean Martin!