Well, the main reason for this blog is to remind people about the FOSSCamp meeting today for the KDE attendees. #kde-fosscamp.
Okay, now that the important stuff is done, I get some personal news:
I just got me KDE Business cards in the mail, and my response (like many others) is: How on earth am I going to be able to use 1000 cards? Oh well, at least I get to play the complete-the-kde-logo game at future conferences :) My title on the card is "KDE Marketing", which while somewhat accurately reflecting what I do for KDE these days, may end up scaring people away. "Wooo, Marketing... so you don't actually work on KDE then?" etc... I still think my original idea of using the title of "KDE Adventurer at Large" would have been better :)
In other news, my girlfriend has won the spice-girls reunion tour ticket lottery, meaning that she now has the right to purchase six tickets for their concert in Toronto... this marketing gimmick (of having a lottery to buy tickets) increases the demand for tickets greatly, and pretty much ensures that every show they do on this tour is a sell-out. This show happens to be in Toronto, which is a $500 flight away from here, and she would not normally be going if it were not for this gimmick. If we had a ticket lottery for the KDE release event, we'd have so many people trying to go, even if it was a hoax :)
Also, I pretty much have my summer job lined up for this year. I'm excited by the opportunity to be working for the exploration branch of CVRD Inco in Thompson, Manitoba (pending criminal record checks and related boilerplate stuff). CVRD is apparently a half decent company to work for, and so was Inco before they merged, so I'm assuming that the combined company will be good as well. I'm pretty happy to get a geophysics job this summer that involves hard rock rather than soft rock, even though the money is better in soft rock. On the upside, they will be covering my accommodations for the four months I'm up there during the summer, as well as allowing me time to go to Belgium for Akademy (assuming my finances allow me). Seems like a good deal anyway.
And lastly, since I've been so busy lately, I haven't had a chance to write a single article for Ars Technica since early September. As a result, I've informed them to try to get someone else to cover the KDE topics that I am currently neglecting. Their users keep asking for KDE news apparently :) If you know anyone who'd be interested, please let me know and I might be able to hook you up. The requirements are a decent knowledge of opensource, half decent writing skills (English as a first language), and being able to be paid in US Dollars (in other words, not from one of the countries that the yankees have some ridiculous dispute with, like Cuba, si?)
Speaking of Cuba, my geology department is contemplating sending us on a field trip to Cuba later this year. I wonder if that might come back to bite me for future travel and work purposes, as a Cuba stamp on the passport might be frowned upon in the US. Bloody US and their feuds.
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