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!

Today’s coffee flavor of the day at work: Frank Sumatra! :)

I have! I just recently got a hold of a US$30 Amazon gift certificate for participating of a 1-hour phone study. I could have used it and bought something for me, right? Instead, I decided to present it to Jacek Åšliwerski, the guy behind Open-Tran. There is not a day that I don’t use it for my translations, as I can use its awesome comparisson tools to QA my work!