Don't get me wrong, I'm a great believer in GNOME's time based releases. Still, I'm sure the feature freeze was designed to get in my way.

Class resumed today, and once again I realised how useful the little calendar in my clock really is. Then how useful it could be still. I'm not sure if anyone is currently doing any work on this. But I think the calendar/clock applet should start to look something like this:

panel calendar/clock applet mockup
Notice the items that have passed for the day are now greyed out. Items that have locations set give those locations in brackets, and there is a coloured square indicating the calendar it comes from (this is the same coloured square next to the calendar in evolution). If someone starts writing this before I do, can they drop me a line, so that I don't start writing too. It would be great if double clicking on the item also brought something up, perhaps the card from evolution, or a field with the description, or something else exciting.

Apparently my parents are in Christchurch (New Zealand). I say apparently because they were meant to land in Auckland. According to my mother, the flight was diverted because the windshield on the aircraft was cracked. I didn't even know you could crack the windshield of an aircraft... I mean, it's not like there are lorries throwing up loose stones coming the other way, or even birds at that altitude.
Apparently (and I have no confirmed or researched this fact) and much to contrary belief, it's very hard to explosively decompress an aircraft. Modern aircraft are fitted with things called pressure equilization valves, on a 747 there are about 4 of these, each the size of one of those windows. So a 747 can lose four windows, and they just close these valves off, and the plane continues to function within spec. I imagine this also means when a trigger happy sky marshal starts firing his pistol and it does penetrate the hull, we're not all going to die (as quickly). It's nice to know engineers somewhere are taking care of us. If anyone has links to any interesting sites on aircraft engineering, I'd love to have a bit of a read.

Elijah, I saw that I had gotten kind of high. Closing bugs gets so depressing though. There are so many bug reports that are completely useless.

Noone knows how to advertise like the Japanese! This is advertising StarSuite, which is somewhat based off StarOffice/OpenOffice as I understand. The translation (courtesy of The Register):

"Sourcenext products are just 1980 Yen?! Oh, my Goodness....!" She faints suddenly. A guy rushs to her and says, "She is having a baby!" Everyone looks at her anxiously. The guy says, "Now, the baby was born!" And for no special reason, she had a colt. It tries to rise unsteadily to its feet. "Oh! It stands up!" Everybody is moved.

(I've been told that everyone has actually already seen this, I think it was on Neil Gaiman's blog).

Drivel needs to write <img src="blah" /> tags when I drag an image from my webbrowser and drop it in the Drivel window. I guess I'm going to have to learn how drag'n'drop works in Gtk+