I spent a good chunk of my evening trying to implement the automatic registration of a gconf schema file via a setup.py and… got nowhere. Seems that most people who wanted to do the same ended up running gconftool-2 directly as such: GCONF_CONFIG_SOURCE=`gconftool-2 —get-default-source` gconftool-2 —makefile-install-rule /etc/gconf/schemas/*.schemas Has anyone got any advice (patches would be awesome) to go with my code?

C’mon! What is up with the tabs fetish? ** My inkscape skills need a lot of love!*

One of my favorite web services ever (Open-Tran.eu) announced today what I consider to be the best feature of 2008! PERIOD! What am I talking about? I’m talking about the possibilty of viewing the comparison of how a single string was translated across several projects! You have to experience it to understand how great this is! To quote Jacek Åšliwerski, the brain behind this: I added new functionality to the service.

This 3-day weekend (it was the Independence Day here in the US this Friday) turned out to be a 3-day stay indoors weekend for us. Due to a hurricane (don’t remember the name now) that is fast approaching the East coast, we were rocked by severe thunderstorms every single night. We had planned to watch the new Indiana Jones movie at the outdoor movie night in Southern Village but managed to get inside the car right before the wind kicked in and the sky was lit with lightning.

Been kind of stormy down here in North Carolina since last night, with some pretty serious thunder storms causing havok around the area. Woke up today to see some trees snapped in half and a car buried under some big branches. With the electricity flickering all the time I thought it would be safe to turn off the PC and wait it out. After yet another stormy period today, I think it is safe to surf the web now.

Today I created a blueprint I intend to promote for Launchpad's Rosetta workflow. Titled “The process by which translation teams can better handle collaboration" (and its matching full specification), it is my intent to describe a mechanism by which translation teams can better administrate the contributions sent by Rosetta users, provide useful feedback and take a first step toward a better relationship with upstream projects. I kindly invite those interested in the same topic to subscribe to the blueprint and add their feedback to the specification page, specially those who like me have their feet in both upstream and Rosetta worlds.

My good friend Mario Ä?anić (pygi) wrote a very interesting article on what he calls a “broken on birth” attitude towards DVCS adoption in many open source groups. I was very intrigued as to how one would allow different developers use their own (i.e. favorite) DVCS to work on their project, and yet be able to pool everything together in order to release a given set? If you want to learn about his ideas, about GitoriousKDE or have some relevant feedback for him, drop him a line.

My latests posts have attracted a fair number of comments (thank every and each one of you for taking the time… really!), most of them in response to the issue at hand. Every now and then someone questions the validity of one of my chosen topics, claiming that it should be published on Planet X (my blog is syndicated on quite a few planets) because it doesn’t talk about technology. I understand that someone people may not enjoy reading every single topic that may be published (not only by me), for I am one of them… honest!

$162 billion for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan Gasoline New war Relief for the American people Education For some reason I can’t seem to be able to check the last 2 boxes. PS: For those who don’t care or don’t want to read about this, exercise your mouse/keyboard and skip this post.

it is amazing just how little real information gets its way to the American public these days. What we Americans call news must be the equivalent of a soap opera or comic stand up everywhere else in the world! The problem is so serious that for those who were born here and never left the country that you end up becoming utterly unaware of what else is going on around the world or, even worse in my oppinion, not knowing what kind of terrorism (our government calls it Foreign Policy) we are perpetrating outside of our borders.