Ross Burtonhttp://www.burtonini.com/blogA potted account of Ross' lifeen60Ross BurtonSound Juicer "I Need A Little Love To Ease The Pain" 2.14.5computers/sound-juicer/sj-2.14.5http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer/sj-2.14.5Sound Juicer "I Need A Little Love To Ease The Pain" 2.14.5 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com , ... Sound Juicer "I Need A Little Love To Ease The Pain" 2.14.5 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. This releases rolls in the bug fixes from 2.15.4:

  • Add date information to all possible albums (Alex Lancaster)
  • Improve GStreamer error handling (Tim-Philipp Muller)
  • Don't crash when re-opening the Preferences dialog
  • Clear the genre field when re-reading the disk
]]>/computers/sound-juicer2006-07-24T14:38:12ZSound Juicer "Two Undernourished Egos Four Rotating Hips" 2.15.4computers/sound-juicer/sj-2.15.4http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/sound-juicer/sj-2.15.4Sound Juicer "Two Undernourished Egos Four Rotating Hips" 2.15.4 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com , or from the ... Sound Juicer "Two Undernourished Egos Four Rotating Hips" 2.15.4 is out. Tarballs are available on burtonini.com, or from the GNOME FTP servers. Not a lot going on, sorry.

  • Add date information to all possible albums (Alex Lancaster)
  • Improve GStreamer error handling (Tim-Philipp Muller)
  • Don't crash when re-opening the Preferences dialog
  • Clear the genre field when re-reading the disk
]]>/computers/sound-juicer2006-07-24T14:33:25ZAmerican In Britainlife/britain-2006-07-24-12-30http://www.burtonini.com/blog/life/britain-2006-07-24-12-30Britain is often said to be part of "the United Kingdom", along with several other countries, including England. Ireland is ... Britain is often said to be part of "the United Kingdom", along with several other countries, including England. Ireland is also nearby, and is considered part of Scotland, which, in turn, is adjacent to, and included in, a small country called Wales. To first-time visitors this can be confusing, especially when one learns that - paradoxically - France is considered by the British to be its very own nation!

A snipped from the first article in a series in The Guardian. It continues later:

The traveller must, of course, always be cautious of the overly broad generalisation. But I am an American, and a paucity of data does not stop me from making sweeping, vague, conceptual statements and, if necessary, following these statements up with troops.

NP: Neighbour Radio, Last.fm

]]>/life2006-07-24T11:30:00ZHot Patch And Merge Actioncomputers/hot-merge-action-2006-07-24-11-30http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/hot-merge-action-2006-07-24-11-30For the last few weeks I've been trying to get as many of the non-DBus specific changes to EDS we've ... For the last few weeks I've been trying to get as many of the non-DBus specific changes to EDS we've made in the eds-dbus port, to ease re-basing the port against EDS 1.8 for eventual upstreaming. Many thanks to the Evolution maintainers for reviewing so many patches so quickly, I just hope I broke nothing in the process!

  • Added API: e_book_query_vcard_field_exists, e_vcard_get_attribute, e_vcard_get_param, e_vcard_attribute_remove_value, e_vcard_attribute_remove_param_value, e_data_book_view_notify_update_prefiltered_vcard
  • Extended EContactPhoto structure to support remote photos
  • Changed name parsing tables to avoid relocations
  • Fix "all contacts" optimisations so it actually happens
  • Increased performance and reduced memory usage of the default addressbook backend

Out of the thirty commits to the addressbook since since April, half were merged from the DBus port!

NP: Feedback, Jurassic 5

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