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I finally upgraded to Wordpress 2.5. The one feature making this worthwhile was the [ gallery] tag which makes it dead easy to add a gallery of images to a post.
I have collected all the desktop backgrounds I have made whilst mucking about in Inkscape and GIMP and added them in such a gallery.
I also [...]

I guess I now have the privilege to call myself a (very) minor GStreamer contributor! The patch was mostly a cut and paste job, with Sebastian Dröge doing most of the work (by supporting the [br] line break tags). Still, it’s very nice to be credited.
The GStreamer people are great, being exceptionally fast to respond [...]

LibriVox was a nice find. They make audio recordings of public domain books, the recordings are also released as public domain works. Started in august of 2005, they have already accumulated a surprisingly large catalog of works.
My Rockbox player is now filled up with such diverse material as Heart of Darkness, The Communist Manifesto, and [...]

Last time i messed around in Inkscape I started doing a wallpaper celebrating the (upcoming) release of Debian Etch. (It could be used as a logo or for some promotional material too).

I don’t think I will get around to finishing it, so I will simply post the SVG file here and now if someone want [...]

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. [...] The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas [...]

I was recently given the privilege to work with pkg-gnome, the Debian GNOME maintainers and was even given commit rights to the SVN archive. With a little help, I closed my first RC bug. Great success. :)

November has been an interesting month in many ways. I’ve gotten not one, but two patches commited to free software projects. One for the Debian package of Einstein Puzzle.
einstein (2.0.dfsg.2-3) unstable; urgency=low

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* main.cpp, res/resources.descr, debian/icon.bmp.uue, debian/rules: Window
icon. Closes: #396113. Thanks to Sven Arvidsson .

– Bart Martens Sun, 5 Nov 2006 [...]