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After being busy with lots of behind the scenes things and other work, I feel like I'm finally making progress on the following: Building OpenOffice.org on Windows - I've been working with Michael Meeks to get ooo-build working nicely on Windows with the 2.0
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A friend gave Danielle the Complete Flumps DVD for her birthday, and we've been watching them together as a family. This is giving us lots of fun and me some inspiration for Pootle quotes :-)
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It's Danielle's birthday today, and she's 30! What a privilege to have such an amazing wife! Last night she fell well trying to stop James falling off some stairs, and twisted her ankle really badly, looks like the ligaments are torn. So its a
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Long time no blog ... We're releasing a South African version of OpenOffice.org in all 11 languages. Some are still in Beta... This is based on milestone 128, and we actually did our own Windows build (no minor task!!!) We'd like to get testing done on
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A few language related news items from South Africa over the last few months: Firstly, the Pan South African Language Board decries the loss of human languages but only has International Mother Tongue Day and such like as solutions. Surely this is a feather-weight solution to a hippo-sized problem? For
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Several months after I posted Once in a Blue Rose, an article appears with a photo: Roses are Blue (also on Slashdot: True Blue) The question is, Is the photo real? The one here is apparently not... (see the slashdot comments which reference a preexisting version)
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At last got some nice progress done on Pootle this week, although it isn't visible on http://pootle.wordforge.org yet... * uploading PO files / archives * merging files together (from uploads) and putting unresolvable differences as suggestions * creating / updating files from templates I also put the latest source archives
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We had James's first birthday party today - he turns one next Saturday! Was great fun making a Carrot Cake in the shape of Prince Eddie, his favourite toy. What a blessing and privilege for Danielle and I to be his parents.
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I had a great holiday last week, a much-needed break. I had fun rearranging my office (the same space, but more space...), by making a piece of wood that my computers can rest on underneath my desk. Decided Desktop boxes should ideally be sideways since all the important stuff can
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Very pleased to see the announcement of the Hula Project, a lovely web based mail and calendar solution that Novell has open-sourced. They really seem to be heading in the right direction with this one. Downloaded it and tried to set it up, still a few hiccups so will wait
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Have been playing around with PyLucene which is a native-compiled Python version of Lucene, a Java text indexing and searching package. It's an impressive engineering feat - basically compile Lucene to native objects using GCJ and then use SWIG to produce Python bindings - given how simply it
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The last two months have been full of emotions of all shades... Maurits and Kirsten's wedding on December the 18th. Fantastic celebration. Came out to discover that one of our friends from antenatal class's gorgeous baby Justin had died the night before, apparently of SIDS. Danielle