Bleh. Haven't updated in a while. Sometimes it seems like there is so much stuff going on, and sometimes it seems like the same stuff over and over and over.
I am very much happy with my laptop these days. I finally got it to sync with my Palm over the IrDA after weeks of messing around with it. In the process, I had found a page which said how to get the sound card working in 8 bit mode. So now I can get my Mariah fix every once in a while.
I also finally got my battery after a month or so, so my laptop is much more usable now, even though it cost me an arm or two. It is very much heavier than the old one. I am still unsure whether the extra 64 MB of RAM is going to be worth it, since it is pretty costly. It is sad that my $1500 laptop is turning into a $3000 one :(
Since I didn't have sound working, I had been buying tons of CDs of stuff still. I now have 2 RHCP CDs, and I like them a lot. I also got "Stop Making Sense" the other day. It advertised "Seven previously unreleased tracks" and consequently there are seven tracks that I do not know and which suck. Oh well. I also bought Pictionary that day, since nobody here seems to have it and it is something I enjoyed playing with my friends back home.
Evolution is starting to kick some butt. It loaded up my 90 MB spool without crashing. It still has some memory / performance issues but the Primates are beginning to look into making it work a bit better.
So my icon hint patch went into gnome-libs today. I am really excited about the next round of GNOME releases... it is going to be much nicer for people using the tasklist. I got my patch drawing the icon on a window's iconized window, ie in fvwm, twm, or window maker when you iconify something. Also if you are using KWM the control center's icon changes depending on which capplet it is showing. Unfortunately, their scaling stuff isn't so beautiful so the icons look pretty crappy.
Speaking of KDE, it seems they are releasing a beta of KDE2. Seems logical to delay GNOME 1.2 a little after that, so now we are looking at around the 17th of May for "April" GNOME. It seems like it is going to be a pretty nice release, more tested than any other GNOME release thanks to the Monkey.
Today or yesterday I realized it has been like 30 months since my ex and I broke up. That seems like so long ago. I wish I would be less shy sometimes, but it is hard to find motivation.