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work

Work's a bit silly right now. Flumotion has accumulated something like 63 bugs fixed for the upcoming 0.4.3 point release. Something's wrong with the pace. I feel like we're doing pretty good work codewise, but we're terrible about being a free software project -- infrequent releases, poor coordination with distros except fedora, poor/outdated documentation, terrible web site, etc. Perhaps this will turn around, but until then I will find solace in clever code in flumotion.common.

parenthetically

Made a stable release of guile-cairo, which I think is the first stable library I've ever released. Neat!

After my profiling, Ludovic Courtes (currently My Hero(tm)) reduced guile load time by something like 60%. Sweet!

Finally, my paper got accepted, against all odds, to the 2007 Workshop on Scheme and Functional Programming in Freiburg, Germany. Swell! Also, intimidating.

tunes

Bought some new music recently, which I am enjoying.

existence

'Tsaight! Visitors, hacking quite a bit, yoga and (less) aikido. Holding down the barcelona fort in the summertime, making sure that the sun finds bodies on the beach and (soon again) sailors on the sea. Paris in a couple weekends, then the Pyrenees, Germany, and to visit the states by October. The summer comes with its imperative: "leave the house."

Andy Wingohttps://wingolog.org/sittin in a park in paris francehttps://wingolog.org/2006/08/21/sittin-in-a-park-in-paris-france2006-08-22T02:17:07Z2006-08-22T02:17:07Z

paris

stationary existence

Real pleased with the weekend in Paris. Pleased because I got to hang out with some quality folks I hadn't seen in a while, pleased with the city, meta-pleased because the visit fixed the city for me. The last time I was there left a very grey impression.

The light is different there from here in Barcelona. Here it is a soup, generously spooned out by a well-fed sun goddess; there it is a garnish on a plate of wild mushrooms. Very dramatic when it breaks through the clouds, colors come out in relief.

Also interesting was the way time has unravelled the knots in us, leaving us a bit more simple, a bit more who we are.

read("/dev/summer", 1024) = 0

There is a palpable feeling here of end-of-summer. People are starting to come back from holiday, the days show an occaisional chill, it rains. Fine for me; I don't think I'll be spending too much time at work in September.

also

I broke yet another spoke on my bike. What's up with that? Before here, the last spoke breakage I had involved a bent wheel, a failed jump, and a deflated ego. These times have been due to my half-hour commute to work. Do the changing circumstances mean I lead a more boring life? Or perhaps do I inject an EXTREME element to commuting? Choose your own adventure!

update

Opened comments, not sure why they were off.