happy birthday to you!!! =)

Yea, I know it was yesterday (the 18th) but you decided to disappear from IRC… ;-)… and I can’t blame you for that.

On a sidenote, what did I become now, the official KDE birthday reminder? At least judging from all the posts I’m writing lately…
Hmm… this has to be fixed… but… never fear! I will be back blogging about stuff asap!!! =)

Happy birthday David! Happy birthday Eugene!

(that’s just alphabetical order)

For those who don’t know, today it’s the birthday of two of our great fellow artists! David ‘davigno’ Vignoni and Eugene ‘it-s’ Trouneuv. To their health!

(to be sincere I wanted to put here a birthday e-card but then I considered that this would have resulted in being more creepy than what I eventually already am. So, take just the words please )

For the rest, I’m continuing with the complete graphic revamp of this blog, sorry if it doesn’t look completely shiny now, but I will make it so in the next days. Great inspiration in my mind…

And a flood of articles are coming too… I just didn’t want to post anything until the revamp had finished, and I’m only making an exception to the rule just for this special occasion.

See you soon my lovely fellows!

P.S. krunner is coming along greatly!

Too bad KDE 4.0 won’t be released the 11th of december, would have been the perfect present for my birthday (which is the 11th infact). Well, I think I can live without it. :\

I’m off for a couple of days… I’ll be back on monday… as Josef knows I *need* a break, haven’t done one since June. Need to get energies back, I’ve no more of them since a while.

David, please prepare me the SVGs for krunner for monday, so we can stunn everyone when I’ll be back with some more coolness branded KDE!

Seb, let’s do a stable release of tripod with all the needed features (users: hints are welcome) and then begin to port to KDE 4, rock along and move forward!

Franz, thanks a lot for the help with the CSS for this blog.

Many guys who wrote me an e-mail and wait for an answer, I need to answer tons of mails, I’ve already got a pile of 20 drafts in my kmail… sorry, but I really had no time these days (been ill) and generally I have been fucking tired… will answer them as I get back, trying to be as quick as possible.

These includes some answer to some mailing lists (e.g. Plasma::Package stuff, sorry Paolo! Oxy meeting, sorry Nuno!, etc…). I fucking really need a secretary.

Many americans KDE contributors, see you in Mountain View, just booked the flight.

Sebas, be sure to coordinate with me so we can seat near in the flight from Amsterdam. =)

Whoever I forgot to include in this list, sorry, I didn’t mean to. I can say I’m tired, if that’s acceptable for you.

All the others readers, there’s somehting I want to show you and something I’m really excited about, hope to show you monday or the days just after. It all depends on several factors, including how much I will be able to break in this couple of days and regain new energies to spend.

Ok, enough for now. Need to get up very early tomorrow, or I should say today instead, given the current time the clock wants to show me.
Ending here my first real post with KBlogger (yay KBlogger! first post after having playied with it and had it around since some months). I’m so fucking tired and demotivated (no, not because of KBlogger)…

See you soon guys, and anyone reading here.
Love to everyone, you do rock!

Hello.

A lot of time passed since my last blog post. And a lot of time has passed with me continously telling to myself to really take a moment or two from the busy workflow of life, and get the time to write on the blog again… the thing is that the period lasts since a lot of time, pretty much since when I misteriously disappeared.

At the time, from the moment when I re-appeared on IRC, every day I said to myself that I really had to write what happened in those two “misterious” weeks (was it two weeks?) to me, why I disappeared so misteriously and what the heck did I do. I wanted to do a full explanation, writing a good post. This was also to explain to the many people who worried during that period (sorry Eugene!) and for who, when I came back, asked me what happened during that time. Exactly the same guys which I’ve answered with these words: «Sorry, can’t explain now, but I’ll write a post on the blog in the next days explaining in detail what happened!».

So, after this episode I realized that I am a liar.

Because, at the end of each week, the weekend comed, and I each time Sunday night arrived without me having done anything, lacking time for various reason.

Yeah, school began again, and this one (3rd year of high school) is one of the most difficult years, for what concerns the high schools.

In the meantime I lost almost all the interest I had in doing that, and forgot many details. I will write a couple of lines if you really want to know, or I will explain directly to you on IRC or Jabber. Nothing so terrifically interesting though, trust me.

However, altough I’ve not updated the blog, this doesn’t mean I’ve been dormient. The good thing infact is that I did a lot of work for KDE, some of which very exciting, while some other not, but still a lot of things.

So, I will start with a blogging marathone, and I’ll try to keep up with a one-post-per-day rythm. I’ll start with a big fish, but won’t reveal anything for now. Check the post which is coming out in a couple of minutes…

Gah, I wanted to write a really short post but as always I end up writing too much…. :\

I leave you with this candy for today, screenshot directly from my desktop:
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P.S. I want to let you know that I’m going to put some Google Adwords on this blog. However, I won’t keep all the revenues for personal incomings, or this kind of stuff, but I will split the earnings in two parts. I will give 50% of what I earn to Paleo, the guy who is hosting this site (as well as many others, like amarok.kde.org) just for his passion and his admiration versus KDE. He does not receive any financial help, and he provide an extremely valuable service. He is also always online to provide help or any other things we, the hosted, need.

And for that service which he provides for free to the whole comunity, I think he deserves all my respect, and that’s just a way to tell him “thanks a lot dude!”. I will keep the restant 50% for helping myself partecipating in KDE events, covering travel expenses, and all this kind of stuff. You know, I’m just a 16-years-old student, and I’ve got kind of a limited budget… I’ve payed all by myself the past two Akademies, and I’m running a bit out of money. I will try to be as transparent as possible on that, and publicly tell when I will use that money.

This is just for clarification if some people might get this wrong, maybe thinking that I’m trying to monetize their effort, or monetizing KDE. =)

P.P.S. Between the new coming things include an update in the skin of the blog, cursors, and other stuff!

P.P.P.S. Hope this post doesn’t contain too many errors, I’ve not even reread it!