Weblog Archives for October 2006

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October 31: Jogging Week 3: The Funk of Forty Thousand Years (Seemant); So Aimee and I started off week 3 of our running programme last night. We were both a little uncertain as to how the 3-minute jogging blocks would go for us. I'd have to say we were both rather pleasantly surprised. It was definitely a tiring workout, but we ...; Read the full post

October 30: Another Team-Mate Gone (Seemant); Emanuele officially announced his retirement from the project last night. Real life duties are catching up with him, and he's suffered a loss of motivation within Gentoo, and so he's decided to move on. This saddens me greatly, because in his short career at Gentoo, he did some pretty ...; Read the full post; Boston's Best South Indian Restaurant (Seemant); So, Friday I went in for my verification blood test, as planned. I guess I'll find out this week some time whether I really do have a gluten allergy or not. While I'm all for being the rare exception, this time it just doesn't appeal to me. I'd rather be ...; Read the full post

October 27: On Masking Popular Packages (XMMS) (Seemant); I remember xmms as well. I used to use it a lot. In fact, it used to be one of my favourite applications. I was even friends with one of the upstream devs (I used to maintain Gentoo's ebuild for it for a while). Well, two years ago or ...; Read the full post

October 25: Dan Armak: A Long Overdue Send-off (Seemant); You know, Dan left Gentoo a few months ago. And he was another who left with a whisper rather than a bang. Dan (danarmak) was already a developer when I joined. At the time, I couldn't stand KDE. I was a fluxbox user. A few months prior to my ...; Read the full post

October 24: Farewell to Old Gentoo Friends (Seemant); A few developers were retired from the Gentoo project in the last couple of weeks. I'd like to acknowledge those people here for a moment. First up: Sascha (cybersystem). Sascha was 14 when he first joined Gentoo. He was immediately put in charge of our mailing lists and went ...; Read the full post; The Liver Cleanse: Autopsy (Seemant); OK, I've been asked on a number of occasions since Saturday how I feel. Truth is I don't feel that much different, physically. The only noticeable thing is that my digestion seems faster, but I'll chalk that up to psychological. There is a behavioural difference, though. What I'm not ...; Read the full post

October 22: The Apple Juice Fast: Day 6 - The Liver Cleanse (Seemant); Well, I did what I said I'd do last night. I started drinking the epsom salts mixture. Let me warn you, the damned stuff is bitter. Pretty nasty. The only way to do it (you have to drink three-quarters of a cup) is to throw the stuff back. Just chug ...; Read the full post

October 21: The Myths and Realities of the Gentoo/Government: Part 2 (Seemant); So let's catch up quickly. Daniel started Gentoo, he led it, Gentoo grew and attracted all sorts, including (and especially?) those who would rather see Daniel not in power. I have a theory: some of those people who lobbied for distributed power structures were actually after being in control for ...; Read the full post

October 20: The Apple Juice Fast: Day 5 (Seemant); Well, here it is. We're at T-minus-zero today. So, I had a breakfast of toast and blueberry preserves (2 pieces of toast, thanks!). And I had as much apple juice as I could before 2pm (14:00). According to the recipes I've seen, I'm not allowed to eat or drink after ...; Read the full post

October 19: The Apple Juice Fast: Day 4 (Seemant); First of all, my apologies to all your RSS reader users out there for filling up your screens with my other two entries for today. But, uh, back to the lecture at hand (Perfection is perfected, so Im a let em understand), the apple juice "fast." So, ...; Read the full post; Some Myths and Realities of Governance (Seemant); I tend to not post political things, but I've been seeing something on those internets that has been pissing me right off for a long time. And since I just posted about governance within Gentoo, that put me in a political mood, so here I go. The Republican party has ...; Read the full post; The Myths and Realities of the Gentoo/Government: Part 1 (Seemant); This post may piss off a lot of people. I'm publishing what I have seen, that is all. If I'm wrong, I'm happy to be corrected. Daniel started this whole Gentoo thing. And while it was small, he led it. As it happens, Gentoo grew. And it grew ...; Read the full post

October 18: The Apple Juice Fast: Day 3 (Seemant); Yeah, so I've discovered something. Unfiltered organic unsweetened apple juice is thick. It bloats me right up. I'm physically unable to ingest a gallon a day. So I'm doing my best to ingest half a gallon, on the theory that some is better than none at all. So, the idea ...; Read the full post; Gentoo's Architecture Testers (Seemant); So, over the past few months, I've sent in numerous requests on bugzilla for various packages to be stabled across the different architectures that Gentoo supports. Mostly, they've been for xterm and gnucash. In most cases, the early responders to those bugs are the Gentoo Architecture ...; Read the full post

October 17: The Apple Juice Fast: Day 2 (Seemant); Ickness Alert. Skip this entire blog post, is my advice, quite frankly. True story: When I was an undergraduate in the arctic colds of Rochester, NY, I lived, for a while, in the on-campus housing. Now, a central facet of most dormitory buildings is the shared bathrooms. So ...; Read the full post; The Lemon Juice Fast: PostScript (Seemant); I want to thank all my readers for enjoying my adventures in the Master Cleanse. To be honest, I don't know if I could have finished the fast, had I not constantly blogged about it. I kept having this 3pm like deadline to submit a status report to you all. ...; Read the full post

October 16: The Apple Juice Fast: Day 1 (Seemant); Well, I transitioned this morning from the lemon juice to a glass of orange juice. I did the salt water flush, of course. There's still flushing happening, which is inconceivable to me. Whatever, I'll be flushing all week anyway. Right, so I took a half gallon bottle of apple juice ...; Read the full post; Brontes 3M? (Seemant); Well, Yahoo! officially broke the story today that 3M is buying my old employer, Brontes. That's really good news for the people there, I think. And it's certainly a tremendous opportunity for Dan. Just for the record, I had no idea this was coming, so I'm ...; Read the full post

October 15: The Lemon Juice Fast: Day 10 (Seemant); The final day is here! I'm really happy to be at the end of the line here! Now, don't get me wrong: the lemon juice/lemonade drink is actually quite delicious. And it satiates hunger. It's just, well, it's not exactly a dosa, you know what I'm saying? It's definitely not ...; Read the full post; The Lemon Juice Fast: Day 9 (Seemant); Here I am, on the penultimate day of this fast. Looking back, it hasn't felt as long as I thought it would feel. Admittedly, there was a day back there when I thought it would never end. I woke up this morning from the effects of last night's laxative tea. ...; Read the full post

October 13: The Lemon Juice Fast: Day 8 (Seemant); Exactly a week ago was the first real day of my fast. I hadn't eaten since 7pm the night before (though I did not do the flush that morning). I had an ultrasound and a blood test, but more on that in a bit. Aimee and I went on our ...; Read the full post; Nostalgia: The Amazing Spider, Man (Seemant); As Mike pointed out, Spider is no longer a Gentoo developer. Logically, this makes sense, because he has not done any development for Gentoo in a long time. However, Spider was one of the early pillars of the Gentoo project. He holds an especially poignant place in ...; Read the full post

October 12: The Lemon Juice Fast: Day 7 (Seemant); Wow, it has been a week since I started this fast! Time has gone by fairly, um, fast. There isn't really that much to report, but I will make a few notes here. No hunger pangs this morning. I've been drinking a lot of water lately. I keep on running ...; Read the full post

October 11: Developer Relations and Evangelism (Seemant); Today marks exactly one month since I started my new job here at StreamBase. This is important for me, you see, because I got this job (I think) largely based on my experience setting up, running and being a part of Gentoo's Developer Relations team. The thing ...; Read the full post; The Lemon Juice Fast: Day 6 (Seemant); Well, here I am, nearing the end of the workday for Day 6, and I'm doing quite well today. The cravings are virtually non-existent. There was some food I thought about today, for about 30 seconds, but nothing much, really. In fact, I'm only halfway through my flask of lemonade, ...; Read the full post

October 10: The Lemon Juice Fast: Day 5 (Seemant); Now this is interesting. For most of the morning, I have not had any cravings for anything. For a few minutes, I fancied having some chocolate. Specifically, I was craving cold chocolate: like ice-cream or mouse or something. Cake, even. When I went to the cooler to get a refill ...; Read the full post

October 9: The Lemon Juice Fast: Day 4 (Seemant); I suppose, to be more accurate, this fast is a lemonade fast, rather than a lemon juice fast. Here's the deal: * 2 tablespoons of freshly squeezed lemon juice * 2 tablespoons of grade B maple syrup * 0.1 teaspoons of cayenne pepper * 8 ounces of spring water ...; Read the full post; The Lemon Juice Fast: Day 3 (Seemant); Well, today was a little easier with the cravings. Admittedly, I thought about food quite a bit, but looking at it was actually ok (even watched a cooking show on PBS. I do like Ming Tsai quite a lot, and I always wonder why he's no longer on ...; Read the full post

October 7: The Lemon Juice Fast: Day 2 (Seemant); Well, Day 2 began fairly quietly. Just a few note about Day 1: I did have cravings all through the day yesterday. A lot of times, I thought "screw this, I wanna eat Indian food on Saturday," and other similar thoughts. I didn't really crave any particular foods, just food ...; Read the full post; Trustee Elections 2006 Have Commenced (Seemant); The elections have started. They will end on the 21st of October at midnight UTC. For the next two weeks I hope all the eligible members of the foundation will cast their votes. For eligiblenon-dev voters, the best way to do that is to email the election officials: * ...; Read the full post

October 6: The DevManual and all that that Implies (Seemant); Stefan, yes we can avoid it in the future. We can start by not officially hosting anything with license violations. As Stuart noted, licensing is critical to FOSS. And quite honestly, as a trustee, I would be 100% hypocritical if the Foundation discovered someone violating any of Gentoo's ...; Read the full post; The Lemon Juice Fast: Day 1 (Seemant); When I wrote my quick note last night, I was unsure how much to talk about it, but I've had some questions, so here we go. I'm on a cleansing diet. A lot of things have happened in the last 2 years or so that made me want to ...; Read the full post; Trustee Elections a little bit late (Seemant); We're going to be a few hours late on the voting, but it will be two weeks from the moment we start, regardless. I dropped the ball, and the date snuck up on me. I'm collecting a list of all the eligible voters right now, with help from KingTaco ...; Read the full post; Fasting (Seemant); Just a quick note to say that I started my 10 day fast today. It's mainly for, well, cleansing. My dinner was a glass of lemonade and some night time tea before bed. See Day 1 of my fast Edit: added link to first day; Read the full post

October 4: Communities: Django is one (Seemant); Once in a while, you come across a a fantastic information piece that's top-notch in presentation. This guy had me giggling at 1 in the morning, and I learned stuff from that post (which is why I was up in the first place). You know, all this talk about ...; Read the full post

October 3: Momentum for Modular Gentoo (Seemant); Well, looks like Mike is buying into the concept a little bit. I would point him and my readers to this comment from my prior post about it. Thanks all for the reassuring numbers on my audience size. I think I must have at least 8 ...; Read the full post

October 2: Printer Suggestions (Seemant); Gentoo-wise, I've requested xterm-218 to go stable. A few architectures have already done that and others have had their ATs verify/validate the builds. Meanwhile, I'm looking to stable gnucash-2.0.1 on other architectures, but it's pointed out that postgresql is not really a valid back-end any more. What's a ...; Read the full post; Weekend Fun (Seemant); Had a nice relaxing weekend. Hung out with aimee, did some chores, bought a few more items of furniture for the apartment. I also had the unfortunate opportunity to watch that "Jackass 2" movie. My god, why is that piece of crap the #1 movie in America? Why would ...; Read the full post

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