Bug 531603

Apparently, GNOME Blog once upon a time stored your passwords in plain text in GConf. I've posted a patch which stores them in Gnome Keyring instead. Yay!

to be had on the hill

I'm just testing this. Please ignore.

Oh, do the labels work though?

Also, go to the Golden Compass movie website, click on DÆMONS, and figure out which you are. I will post a screenshot of what I was in the future.

I hear birds outside my bedroom window. The world awakes again :)

This is a particularly geeky kind of pleasure. I just discovered that with my recent upgrade to Fedora 7 (Linux!), my multimedia keys (volume up, down, play, stop, next, prev) all work! I think most manufacturers define their own arbitrary specs for such, and I have always had to do a small amount of work to set them up (sometimes adding a driver to interpret the key presses, other times just mapping them to their functions from a simple GUI :). Yay.

Also, I am reformed! Previously:

• woke up late, missed Farmer's Market
• woke up late, missed Speed River Clean-up
• woke up late, missed most of Faery Fest!
• wake up late, miss bus

If I analyse all the situations, there is a common human factor :) That human factor is asleep right now, so I can't discuss this directly with them, but I'm annoyed that late-waking might cause them some unnecessary stress or disappointment. If it doesn't, then I suppose there's nothing to reform, but else-wise, new waking mechanisms are installed in my brainboard.

It is always worth helping people to suffer less, but the question you should ask yourself when you hear about a new mental illness is not whether people are suffering (which they almost certainly are), but whether the best way to alleviate that suffering is by deciding it should be diagnosed and treated by the medical profession.

- Mindhacks

This evenings trip to the Conestoga Mall, while adventurous, has left an eerie feeling within me. It has vacated the pleasure I get out of everything since, including edibles (fruit and sugar), Google, GNOME, and friends. There is one subject of thought that consistently forms a smile, and I'm very grateful for that :)

Hmm, too lackluster posts in a day. I suspect foul play.

So I just spent a lunch break and $7 eating chinese food with coworkers. It's completely pointless! Because lunch breaks aren't covered, I've lost that time of my day. I could have created something competitive in taste, in slightly less time, at a fraction of the cost at home, brought it with me, and enjoyed it instead. I'd be able to go home earlier, or spend that time working so I could spend less time here on Friday. Time spent walking to, waiting for, eating, and walking from food is analogous in function to the time I could spend preparing vegetables and friends, cooking them, packaging them, and washing the resulting dishes. Arguably, I do need more plastic containers (I shudder at the thought of my sister's Tupperware® years), but those are a couple dollars for six at the Dollar Store. It wouldn't be so bad if there were benefits to eating out for lunch. I really enjoy being able to eat new food with Liv (I don't think East Side Mario's® counts as 'new') but my coworkers lack a comparable appeal. Oh dear! I mean, sometimes I can observe or participate in a discussion of theirs that is rich and rewarding, but discussing Greyhound® washrooms is not that!)

I only eat out about once a week now for lunch (saving emergency expenditures from last week), and I am saving a lot of money as compared to my behaviour my first two weeks here, but it can still improve greatly. I even have cooked rice waiting in the refrigerator, and a lot of food newly purchased that I would rather impart energy to me than the compost pile. I am a cruel master of the pile, indeed.