Ross Burton

Coffee Help Needed

2005-02-28T16:47:00Z

I'm currently addicted to Monsoon Malabar coffee, be it from Wittards or Taylors. It's a wonderfully rich, earthy coffee which tackles waking me up in the morning as well as it keeps me going in the afternoon. However, it's not Fair Trade: although both Wittards and Taylors claim their coffee is ethically sourced they do separate Fair Trade branded products.

So, the help. Can anyone name a Fair Trade source of Monsoon Malabar, or something similar?

NP: Creating Patterns, 4 Hero

Daily Mail Science

2005-02-28T15:25:00Z

I just received my weekly A Worm's Eye View, the editorial which comes with The Guardian's news round-up service. I may disagree with the author, Andrew Brown, on several issues (specifically he doesn't think Linux is any good, but at least he uses OO.o), but he is often right on the mark.

Guardian readers can have little idea how dreadful the general coverage of science stories is in the British press. All distinction vanishes between chemists, social scientists, particle physicists, snail taxonomists, people who chop the heads of little chickens with giant scissors - they're all "scientists".

All 'scientists' have one task. The Daily Mail subscribes to a radically simplified version of the atomic theory and everyone else tries to follow. According to this theory everything in the world is made from two kinds of basic substance: those that cure cancer, and those that cause it. The job of a scientist is to go through the world classifying everything into one category or the other. Every time something is identified as made of one sort of atom or the other, we have a story, preferably a scandal.

NP: Cafe Del Mar Volume 1

Sound Juicer "Hell Is Round The Corner Where I Shelter" 2.9.92

2005-02-28T13:01:03Z

Sound Juicer "Hell Is Round The Corner Where I Shelter" 2.9.92 is out, also known as Release Candidate 1. Give this a good hammering, please.

Depend on nautilus-burn >= 2.9
Set the profile key to a sensible default
Unselect the profile combo when no profile is selected in GConf
Use gi18n.h (Crispin Flowerday)
Use the new GTK+ about dialog (CF)
Display the output format in the profile chooser (Raj Madhan)
Quit correctly (RM)
Updated README

I've been really bad at crediting translators, so I'll credit everyone who translated since 0.6 and will try and keep this up. Thanks everyone!

Adam Weinberger (en_CA), Ankit Patel (gu), Arafat Medini (ar), Christian Rose (sv), Christophe Fergeau (fr), David Lodge (en_GB), Duarte Loreto (pt), Elian Myftiu (sq), Emrah Unal (tr), Francesco Marletta (it), Francisco Javier F. Serrador (es), Funda Wang (zh_CN), Gnome PL Team (pl), Hendrik Brandt (de), Jordi Mallach (ca), Kjartan Maraas (nb), Kjartan Maraas (no), Laszlo Dvornik (hu), Leonid Kanter (ru), Martin Willemoes Hansen (da), Maxim Dziumanenko (uk), Miloslav Trmac (cs), Nikos Charonitakis (el), Priit Laes (et), Rajeev Shrestha (ne), Raphael Higino (pt_BR), Takeshi AIHANA (ja), Tino Meinen (nl), Tommi Vainikainen (fi), Vladimir Petkov (bg), Young-Ho Cha (ko), Žygimantas Beručka (lt)

As usual the tarball is here, but it is also available on the GNOME FTP server. I've not done Debian Sarge packages yet as it needs GNOME 2.9, but Sebastien is usually very quick with Ubuntu Hoary packages.

NP: The Private Press, DJ Shadow