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Last night, I had to wear a toque while I mowed the lawn. This weather has got to stop. »

I recieved a review copy of Mono: A Developer’s Notebook through the Dal-ACM’s militant arm, our own ORUG. The review is now up on the Dal-ACM web site; the short version is that the book is good. Next on the chopping block is Code Complete. I’m already a few hundred pages in, and its been great so far. I can’t wait to find out who the real killer is. »

For years, we Canadians have envied our American neighbors. Our Mountain Dew was caffine free; theirs was one of the most caffinated beverages available, second only to Jolt. No longer do we have to make expensive trips to the states or pay dewrunners to haul loads in their boats! Mountain Dew Energy is now available in stores! It’s good. It doesn’t taste exactly like regular Mountain Dew, but neither does American Mountain Dew. »

I don’t mean to offend with this; frankly I’m happy when someone reads anything at all. I had hoped to stay out of the Dan Brown thing, but after seeing Colin’s post, and then today seeing a friend’s MSN name set to something like “Da Vinci Code movie… unf unf”, it’s time to chime in. Yes, I’ve read it. I proudly display my hardcopy on my bookshelf. It’s just not a good book. »

Sean pointed out to me via email that my blog has been comment spammed. This makes me happy; I’m high enough on the googles to get noticed by spambots. The downside is that now I have to deal with it. I think I’ll evaluate newsbruiser (as used on GNOME blogs); it looks like it may have some capabilities for this, and it’s written in python. »

The first CEOS ended last night Friday night. I had been otherwise occupied for the days leading up to the conference (and for some of the conference proper), but the other organizers pulled off an utterly enjoyable event. Like Sean, I too enjoyed Billy’s and Steve’s talks. Both were to the point and pretty funny. You can tell that these guys actually get F/OSS. But we knew that already. Other good talks were those done by Iain Galloway and Daniel Richard. »

For anyone looking for Moleskine notebooks in Halifax, Nova Scotia, they’re stocking them at Frog Hollow Books. Frog Hollow doesn’t seem to have a website, so here’s their meatspace location: Frog Hollow Books Ltd. 5657 Spring Garden Rd. Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3R4 Requisite google maps link: Frog Hollow Books (They’re in Park Lane). This was another added benefit from the Install Fest on Saturday; CS Society Summer President David Nichols had a moleskine with him. »

Yesterday, we held the install fest at Dal; the consensus was that it rocked. We’ll probably hold another one in the Fall, to get the Dal froshlings using a better OS. There were computers a-plenty, playstation 2 on the big screen, and a 1.3Kg bag of M&Ms. I was also introduced to munchkin, an incredibly fun card game from Steve Jackson games, the same people who brought us the War Against The Chtorr RPG. »

I picked up the snackers for the install fest today. The cashier who rang it through was without doubt the slowest cashier who ever lived. I’m thinking about going back and giving her a medal or something; moving that slow must take an awful lot of discipline. »

I spent some time on the weekend, while I was at Ms. Vissers’s house, working on adding ACL display and manipulation to gnome-keyring-manager. I finished it up yesterday, and imported it into GNOME CVS. Those paying close attention may notice that there is neither the ability to add, nor to remove, application access controls to/from a key. This is intentional; I can’t come up with any compelling use-cases where someone would do these actions within g-k-m. »