Caskets at the reflecting pool by A-Wix As I see our nation crumbling down before my eyes, the republican candidates to the presidency of the United States concentrated on spewing garbage about the war in Iraq and building a fence to protect us against illegal immigrants. I wish they would use their time more wisely talking about how to minimize the huge f*** up our current President has gotten us into.

… that this (below) could be a Foresight Linux based distribution flavored with Openbox and friends. Interested in the idea? You know where to find me…

While I was busy at work, Openbox 3.4.5 was released! As always, I’ve packaged it for Foresight Linux (the 2-devel branch) and you can get it using conary or PackageKit. I also took the time last night to pimp PyPanel with a few patches and bump Nitrogen to 1.2 (not shown in the screenshot). Speaking of Nitrogen, I looked around for an easy and straight forward way to change the desktop wallpaper in a non-GNOME environment and was amazed at how GNOME-centric they all were.

Just watched the Republican debate on TV and was perplexed by the “quality” of “answers” that were given by the candidates… well, all except one failed to get my serious attention: Ron Paul. Just as Dennis Kucinich would have been my candidate of choice for the democrats, I must say that Ron Paul has left a very good impression in me. While the other candidates (and even the panel moderators) busied themselves by ridiculing him, he gave answers!

Some people reported dependency errors when using one of the two .deb packages I announced today. Turns out it was due to python-sqlite2 and python-image… Our own Luiz Armesto has whipped up a newer package that can be downloaded here, now with all the right dependencies. Thanks to Diogo Autilio and Alex Bevilacqua again for sending me his packages as well (see comments)! UPDATE: Just as I was about to submit this post, Diogo sent me a newer package with updates up to this second!

BillReminder now has inline searching and colored categories for (hopefully) easier sorting and some bling. :) A few more issues have been closed as well, bringing us closer and closer to a code freeze. Also, thanks to Diogo Autilio and Alex Bevilacqua we now have BillReminder packaged for Ubuntu Gutsy! Please take them (there are 2 *.debs available) for a spin and relate any bugs or feature requests here.

GNOME Bugzilla stats are out and what a nice surprise to see my name in the top 250 bug reporters and top 100 patch submitters from 2007. If could only have SVN access now…