Current mood:

sick

wrapup
Lots of bits and pieces have happened recently, some of them have already been covered by others, but I'm going to make an attempt to wrap it all up here. Most recent first...

UCC 30^th Anniversary Dinner
This year marks the UCC 30^th year of existance. To celebrate we threw a bit of a bash at the Royal Perth Yacht Club. Quite an impressive turnout, some 50odd members (a few brought partners) in total (no where near the complete membership, which I estimate at around 350).
Quite a few of the old guard turned up which made the night more interesting, also allowing the old guard to finally prove that they were much cooler then we are. A short presentation on what the UCC used to do pretty much nailed this point home. The only conclusion I can come to is that computers have become too much of a commodity. Elixxir suggested that nowadays members of the UCC have branched out, and are doing lots of cool and different things. This is true, however it seems that noone in the UCC really works on projects together (unless you count playing computer games together a project), I guess a lot of the things the old guard used to do, like solder new RAM into their mainframes, is just stuff that you can't do anymore it's too hard. Plus, in this modern day, I'm sure they'd be arrested for some of the things they did, or at least throw out of the University. The world has probably changed dramatically in the last 30 years.
The dinner itself wasn't too bad, served as a buffet style with a reasonable choice of dishes. The cold meats and salads and such were served on these multilevel stands however (very IKEA) which while cool, made getting at the items rather difficult (I hope to have some photos of them as soon as people get their photos up).
I do however today feel a little under the weather. I'm not hungover, so I can only assume I ate something that didn't quite agree with me.

The Breaking of the Fellowship
As Grahame already covered in vivid detail, our housemate of exactly 11 months (I checked) is moving out today with his girlfriend (mmm, steganography) and one of her friends. This will take our house down to 5 people. Personally I don't know how we're going to survive, with just 5 of us in residence, we'll probably never manage to run into each other, it will seem so... empty.

School
Apparently, according to a friend tutoring signals and systems, I warrented a mention by my signals and systems tutor. I suppose I can take this one of two ways.

A World Class COM
I've been talking with people on and off about the reality of a truly world class COM system. A COM system so cool that we could share it with KDE, the freedesktop.org COM spec! Obviously it would need wrappers, bonobo3 and a new kparts, that wrapped it into GObject or whatever KDE use, but still, a shared COM!
I don't know enough to design or evaluate a COM system, so it's not really something I can talk a lot about. But it's just an idea I've had (that I'm sure others have already had), and I've wondered how hard it would really be to implement.

Evangelizing GNOME
How do you evangelize GNOME to young hackers? There is an entire army of fresher hackers out there, who have useful skills, and the patience to mess around with things like BSD boxes and get GNOME working... how do you get them involved?