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- Prodded mail properly for the first time: wow, there is a lot of it. Played with Empathy some more, looks good, writing down the minor irritations for future reference / fixing. Call with Florian.
- Caught up with a certain amount of admin / bug filing. Call from Murfitts / builders wrt. a deadline for their quote: end of the month. Played with Conduit a little on the local network. Lunch with Laura.
- OO.o team meeting, call with JP, call with Grant, more talk with JP. After much digging into rpm things, I discovered that the mystic spec file goodness:
make %{?jobs:-j%jobs} is best handled with some rpmbuild --eval '%define jobs 8' -ba foo.spec than otherwise, sadly much googling, manual and code reading didn't make this at all obvious. - When is Open Source not that open source ? - when it is inorganic of course; J. reading a book Swindled currently on fake food (it's not as good as expected, perhaps like the food). Should we have an open-source FDA, that can name & shame harmful additives ?
- Dunged out the laptop disk, somehow filled 250Gb rather too quickly, kicked off some new m28 split builds.
- Poked at the sofa again: just playing with finding the depth of the various holes with some wire - when (much to my amazement) I hooked a hugeish beetle out of one of the holes; somewhat surprising to say the least. Stuck it on one of the Rentokill beetle sticking pads, though clearly these are designed for lesser beasts - it could move slowly around / off it. Managed to clap it inside a jam-jar, and kill it with some handy permethrin woodworm killer. Examining it it seems to be a False Powder Post beetle identical to the picture here: , Wikipedia is surprisingly unhelpful about Bostrichidae sadly.
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In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE, Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International), or anyone else. It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy. Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com) 