well, planet sine can’t see the title ’cause it has the same bug as planet kde. but oh well.
*waves*
so, um, yeah. I’m on two planets now. yays.
does this mean I’ll have to go through the cycle of reviving one of my freetures projects, rewriting a bit of it and dropping it again? ;)

obligatory totally-offtopic-comment: I had an exam today. the last one is tomorrow. that means I’m almost done. I think it’s gonna be confusing for a while, being done with the chinese stuff. will probably take a few days to unbreak my mind and actually start getting things done.

the internet is behaving like a yo-yo today, and it reminded me that a fair number of people on planetkde still snip their posts. considering the overwhelming number of comments last time I brought the subject up, I expected everyone would stop snipping, but that wasn’t the case. so I’d just like to say that if you could let the rss feed show your entire post, I’d really appreciate that while my internet connection is down. :)

I’ve actually almost caught up on all the planetkde posts from my vacation, since a lot of my other feeds don’t include anything at *all* in the rss. I suppose I really should have spent the time doing something a little more productive… oh well. :)

poll time!

when I post long rambling posts, should I show the whole thing in akregator or just the first bit? obviously the people who read my blog are the ones who are affected by it, not me, so I wanna know what you think.

There’s a proposal to adopt Microsoft’s Office “Open” XML as an international standard. Yep, the big nonstandard “standard” that is full of contradictions and confusions and patent worries. the “standard” that was created as a response to the Open Document Format. We should be standardising on that instead: ODF is already an ISO standard, is truly open, unencumbered, and is already used by at *least* two Free editors that I know of, plus there’s a plugin for MS Office. There must be at least one Canadian reading this blog; let’s let our government know what this “standard” really is. they’ve provided a forum for responses; let’s hope they actually listen to them. …just remember that they’ll listen better if the posts sound like they’re coming from a calm, rational adult and not a crazy linux fanatic ;)

[for the record: in the end, canada voted no. yay!]

I’ve been in hangzhou for a while now, and I feel like I’m starting to get used to it. still haven’t figured out some things, though - like why the store across the street sells ketchup but not vinegar :)
I’ve been updating my makeshift blog fairly regularly lately. haven’t got around to setting up proper uncensored net access yet.

Well, I’ve been here for a while. spent about a week in zhenjiang, and I’ve been in hangzhou for a couple of days now. wordpress is blocked, and I couldn’t remember my password, so this i hte first chance I’ve had to post here. I’m using links, and the textr has run off the end of the scvreen, so I don’t know what IU’m typing. my makeshift blog is at http://chani.ccdevnet.org/blog/ - it’s not much, but it’s the easiest way to update from internet cafes.

I just noticed that my blog was off by an hour. does wordpress not adjust for daylight savings? o.0

so, I’ve been using my laptop more. it’s nice. but, the info on it gets out of sync with my desktop. I’m not really sure how to deal with this.
see, I don’t want *everything* sync’d. I have different settings in kde, different kopete accounts, n’stuff. but I want my konq bookmarks at least somewhat synchronised (they need a reorganise, too, I’ve got hundreds of them), and I want my kontact stuff sync’d - calendar, addressbook, rss feeds… read/unread status of feeds if possible, too… oh, and knotes.

svn takes care of project stuff, but pim data like this just ends up a mess. I wonder if there’s any software designed for dealing with this? I know there’s plenty of sync software, but does any of it fit my situation?

[edit] Gof suggests unison. it looks powerful enough to do things intelligently, but since it’s not kde-ified I’ll have to manually choose what files I need sync’d.

ok, so I installed unison and tried it out. it’s a nice little thing, easy to use… but… it just doesn’t get along well with kde apps. they like to write to their files even when nothing’s really going on, and kabc changes large chunks of binary-ish stuff… and unison just kinda gets lost and gives up on even the smallest conflict. I haven’t figured ot how to set a merge proggy for it tto try yet.

well, I guess this is my first post. :)
I’m not expecting to use this much before SoC ends - http://2006.planet-soc.com/blog/46 in case you didn’t know :)

aha, deleting and recreating the post fixed the timestamp.