To download it you can either grab the tarball or fetch the bzr tree.

Maybe it's time to get a dedicated build machine, my poor laptop gets quite toasty when building Poky. Then again it seems happy enough, so maybe I should just use an external keyboard to avoid boiling my hands.

NP: Oneric, Boxcutter

• Update the status bar after uploading
• Add a Switch User menu item
• Add Add/Remove buttons to the image pane
• Install the Nautilus extension to the new extension path
• Don't select groups when the name is clicked
• Don't display errors when posting to moderated groups
• Show a warning on exit if there are images to upload (thanks Germán Póo-Caamaño)

The tarball is here, and packages for Debian have been uploaded.

• Add Send To Group options
• Add Privacy and Safety options
• Use a multi-line entry for the Description field
• Show the user's name in the status bar
• Fix the resizing of the preview

The tarball is here, and packages for Debian have been uploaded.

mobile-2.24

This changes GConf and EDS to use the DBus ports, and provides meta-mobile-platform which builds the complete platform.

pimlico

This builds Contacts, Dates and Tasks, providing meta-pimlico.

matchbox

This builds Matchbox Panel, Matchbox Desktop, Matchbox Keyboard and Matchbox Window Manager, providing meta-matchbox.

Also, Poky is building images nightly with the complete platform in, which will let you build and test software in a PDA-style environment with QEMU, running on x86 or a number of ARM-based devices (such as Nokia N800, Sharp Zaurus or OpenMoko).

Last week at the Collaboration Summit in Austin (which I couldn't attend for personal reasons) there was a day-long GNOME Mobile meeting, as a result of which there is now a long list of packages which need to be considered for addition to the Platform (such as HAL, Gypsy and Geoclue), and a few changes (such as replacing gnome-vfs with gvfs). I hope to review the proposals fairly shortly, so that we can hopefully make an initial GNOME Mobile 2.24 platform release alongside the Desktop release in September.

In other news, this is exactly what the Internet is for.

NP: Blue Moon Station, Solar Fields

Man the lifeboats. The idiots are winning. Last week I watched, open-mouthed, a Newsnight piece on the spread of "Brain Gym" in British schools. I'd read about Brain Gym before - a few years back, in Ben Goldacre's excellent Bad Science column for this newspaper - but seeing it in action really twisted my rage dial.

Charlie Brooker in The Guardian gets deservedly angry over Brain Gym, after seeing an article about it on Newsnight (1, 2 on YouTube). The creator of Brain Gym was destroyed by Paxman, rather too easily to be honest.

NP: Voices, Vangelis (via Last.fm)

12 weeks and one day, to be precise.

Vicky is pregnant!

In other news, the new Lightroom 2 beta is very nice.