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I’m back

So I’m finally back from my first patrol. The patrol itself went pretty well, we did a successful test launch and I learned a crap load about the engineering systems (but I still have oh so much to learn). There have been quite a few changes in things while I was gone as well.

Another infrequent commit

So I made a minor improvement to JuK yesterday (in the 3.5 branch, I’m still seeing how it applies to KDE 4). Basically the “Add to JuK Collection” action that is added to Konqueror when selecting music files didn’t work. And, not only did it not work, but if you selected 20 different files and tried to add them to JuK, your taskbar would fill up with 20 different buttons as DCOP was run 20 times simultaneously trying to add the files at once.

Update update

This has been a really busy two weeks for me. One thing I’ve noticed is that all through the Navy training pipeline, the message has always been, “Oh, it’ll be better at the next command.” But the only time that was true was during OCS (i.e. boot camp).

I lost the power

I encountered perhaps the weirdest issues I’ve had with electrical service in my life yesterday.

kdesvn-build update

Hi all. Just wanted to let you all know that as of revision 593817, kdesvn-build supports using the progress output of CMake 2.4.3, just like it used to do with unsermake.

KDE shown on the new NBC show Heroes

Someone who actually watches TV noticed that our favorite desktop environment, KDE, was featured on the new NBC show, Heroes.

on friendship

Peter Rockai has written a great piece about friendship. It’s almost poetic, and it’s definitely something that would make a great “email-this-to-all-your-friends” letter if I were that kind of schmuck. ;-)

Back in Georgia

I’m now back in Georgia. Now I get to have a week or so off before I report to my boat, which will hopefully be enough time to get everything unpacked and get my computer upgraded, and my email checked, etc.

Tennis

I went to go see the U.S. Open on Friday night to catch Lindsay Davenport vs. Katarina Srebotnik and Marat Safin vs. David Nalbandian. Unfortunately both games were rained out. They made up the games this morning and it turns out that they were both awesome. They both went to the maximum number of sets, and finished in a tiebreak. So I’m rather bummed to miss it.

Setting up

I’m still in the Submarine Officer Basic Course, but my wife has setup things at my home at my duty station so my computer is finally on the Internet again, which means I can continue making periodic updates to my weblog.