Sunday, October 24, 2004

the importance of beig earnest

it's time once again to steal a movie and title and blather on, but only briefly for it's a sunny day outside and George says i write too much as it is.

so... i'm toying with taking a 3 month sabbatical next year to work on KDE. will see how those plans turn out. i would like to spend most of it working on the linkage stuff with Scott et al.

reading through kicker's bug reports (till 6am last night. ug) is enlightening. learning a lot about how people use it. a lot of silly wishlist items, too. those ones get closed.

i'm getting to know digikam a bit better as i'm doing a write-up on it. fun fun. and i see that konversation is starting to get a sane(r) default UI. kudos!

so, earnest, and the importance of being it: never underestimate how much of an impact enthusiasm and sincerity will have on shaping the world around you. i'm continuously surprised to find out the cool things that happen just because i happened to be earnest somewhere at some particular time. it's a great feeling when positive energy spreads, and its the most potent fuel for building communities full of vibrant people.

ps. George: was this short enough?
pps. Keller Williams and the String Cheese Incident ROCK!

5 comments:

Anonymous said...

Please for heaven's sake learn how to use the SHIFT key on your keyboard! You know, the funny key below Caps Lock (or Control) which has an arrow or "SHIFT" printed on it. My poor eyes!

Apart from that, the length is much better after the last article:

george@aluminium ~ $ cat aseigos-stupidly-long-blog | wc -w
1506

So I'll rate this blog as follows:

Brevity: 6/10 (still got some work to do there I'm afraid)
Grammar: 1/10 (capitalisation sucks)
Spelling: 9/10 (you mis-spelt "being" in the title)

I'll stop being a pedant now.

-- Your friendly annoying teenage geek, George

Anonymous said...

Please for heaven's sake learn how to use the SHIFT key on your keyboard! You know, the funny key below Caps Lock (or Control) which has an arrow or "SHIFT" printed on it. My poor eyes!

Apart from that, the length is much better after the last article:

george@aluminium ~ $ cat aseigos-stupidly-long-blog | wc -w
1506

So I'll rate this blog as follows:

Brevity: 6/10 (still got some work to do there I'm afraid)
Grammar: 1/10 (capitalisation sucks)
Spelling: 9/10 (you mis-spelt "being" in the title)

I'll stop being a pedant now.

-- Your friendly annoying teenage KDE dev, George

Anonymous said...

Blogger sucks. I changed a couple of words and the bloody thing posted twice, the old "revision" and the new one. This sucks.

Anonymous said...

Hello, I just wanted to thank you for giving the kicker some love. It is one of the most important components of KDE. Heck, it's the way we communicate with the desktop.

If there are things that meer mortals can do to help out just say so.

Thanks again.

Anonymous said...

hey...

dont use shift, text without capitals is much easier on the eye :D

and I like you'r blogs. please continue writing them!