Taken by my old buddy yella.

PERPETUAL PEACE:

Whether this satirical inscription on a Dutch innkeeper’s sign upon which a burial ground was painted had for its object mankind in general, or the rulers of states in particular, who are insatiable of war, or merely the philosophers who dream this sweet dream, it is not for us to decide. But one condition the author of this essay wishes to lay down. The practical politician assumes the attitude of looking down with great self-satisfaction on the political theorist as a pedant whose empty ideas in no way threaten the security of the state, inasmuch as the state must proceed on empirical principles; so the theorist is allowed to play his game without interference from the worldly-wise statesman. Such being his attitude, the practical politician–and this is the condition I make–should at least act consistently in the case of a conflict and not suspect some danger to the state in the political theorist’s opinions which are ventured and publicly expressed without any ulterior purpose. By this clausula salvatoria the author desires formally and emphatically to deprecate herewith any malevolent interpretation which might be placed on his words.

Immanuel Kant, Perpetual Peace: A Philosophical Sketch

Google food is good, frozen yogurt totally is a win and it is good to see Leslie and the rest of the cabal again. Oh and Michael coind a new phrase!

[Yes, as Jorge pointed out, my hackgotchi is totally outdated.]

The next item on the ToDo is snapshot support.

P.S.: It is a bit ugly to build right now, mostly because the VirtualBox’ SDK doesn’t include the necessary headers, nor a package-config file. I will file a “bug” about that at their bug tracker and hope that this will change.
If out-of-tree building doesn’t work, you could try the old in-tree branch here. The in-tree version is not as up-to-date as the out-of-tree since I only use the latter one for developing.

… he met the gang …

… enjoyed the view …

… and watched the humans coding.

The other human on the photo is Clemens Buss, my SoC Student, who visited me to hack on GEmblem and GEmblemedIcon. Which landed upstream. His first code in GNOME, already at the very heart of it! I am a proud Monkey – aeh Mentor! :-)
Next step is to make use of it in the HAL volume monitor in gvfs and patch nautilus to use it. Of course its also the foundation for the general use of Emblems ins gvfs/gio – which of course needs lots of thinking and coding.

Cool stuff.

Posted by email from Christian’s posterous

I think it is time for make a new awesome stable release. This
cause we want to demonstrate the awesomeness of all the great and
extravagant bugfixing into the hands of the users. If you haven’t
cared to do bugfixing up to now, this weekend is a great time to
rock and get those crashers fixed!
extra points this release for people who can find Mr. Vincent Untz
and get a big bowl of icecream in his hands. It will really blow his
mind and it a nice thing to do, even if he is a crazy French guy..

Rumors are the Vuncent Untz is a chicken and was to frightened to take his part in the Icecream Deathmatch that Andre wanted to have.

UDS is fun – as always – and of course the GNOME Mafia is doing its job well and is spreading terror everywhere. I should probably write more about it but I am too tired after yesterday’s visit of the Crossclub, which is btw. an amazing place. Look at the Photo galleries.