Free Food (for Cowboys)

I’ve been feeling very inspired by various plans and ideas lately, but I’ve been completely unable to convert that inspiration into any sort of action. As a result I’ve not accomplished much of note in the last week. That said I finally got drag and drop working to the various source lists in Evolution.

Miguel keeps telling everyone how much faster the mphoto icon list was than the F-Spot icon list, so I spent a tiny amount of time checking if F-Spot was doing something obviously wrong. The only change I’ve made so far is reversing the priority of the thumbnail loading queue which seems to have helped a bit but still didn’t placate Miguel. More hunting to go.

Searching

When I was young and a lot more reckless than I am now I used to joke with people I was close to that I would never live to see 21. It was only partly a joke, I had real trouble imagining the me that I was then ever managing to live through all the self destructive acts that I indulged in, or being responsible for
much of anything. Tomorrow I’ll be 30 and it is quite obvious now that the joke was on me.

Did some drawing yesterday. A small pen and ink sketch of a monkey inspired
me to fill a dozen or so pages with the same monkey in various poses. Went out
with friends later to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day.

I read Havoc’s proposal and while I don’t agree with his conclusions, the discussion is interesting. Paolo and Miguel have covered everything I’d like to say better than I could say it, so instead of adding words to the debate I’ll just vote with code.

I released F-Spot - 0.0.1 today, please give it a try.

Saw Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story tonight at the SXSW world premiere. It is an authentically funny mock documentary starring Rob Corddry about the return of a champion paintballer after 10 years in exile. If you get a chance I definitely recommend seeing it, especially if you enjoy Rob’s work on the Daily Show.

The actual movie poster is much better

Downtown Austin

Kristy and I spent the whole weekend out and about, every night was very distinct, and I’m after it all I’m feeling a little exhausted. No progress on evolution or f-spot. It’s been a long time since I’ve taken an entire weekend completely off work and it feels good. I wish it was easier to find the balance between relaxation and productivity.

More f-spot progress. Basic Gallery export is now working using the gallery remote protocol. The code and UI are still a complete mess but the basic functionality is
there now. Getting more familiar with c# and the class libraries has been fun,
I’m starting to feel more comfortable working with them. I hope to start attacking some of the remaining problems with the database soon and come up with a structure that is one step closer to final.

Evolution work
has been slow, especially refactoring the Drag and Drop work. I’m still having
a lot of trouble finding a grove with anything evolution related. Everything I
accomplish feels like it takes several times the effort it should.

The rest of life remains a bit tumultuous. I’ve been having real trouble feeling content or relaxing, too many thoughts running through my head. Tonight was a little better, Kristy and I talked about things for a while. It feels good to know I am deeply loved.

Kristy on the couch

Back in Austin after the Birthday weekend. Happily I got a lot of f-spot work done while in College Station. There were some changes needed to catch up with
gtk-sharp-0.17 then I
spent a fair amount of time looking over the .Net http classes for the first time. After I got some very basic posting and cookies working I found and fixed a
tiny bug in mono’s System.Web.HttpUtility class.
This is all preparation for some fun new f-spot features. Finally to top it all off Edd Dumbill wrote an interesting entry about GNOME content creation and f-spot.

Spent some time doing Evolution treeview Drag&Drop, not very exciting, needs more work. Evolution 2.0 seems to be slowly marching closer even if it still seems impossibly far away.

Mom decorating Gran’s cake