Author: Johan Thelin

>I’m planning to get a new camera for this Christmas, and this time I’d like it to be slightly more pro-ish than my current HP. The plan is to be able to do some more serious photography while still being able to use it as my vacation camera.

My current idea is the Canon EOS 400D – but it seems to be lacking vibration compensation.
I can get it for around 830 EUR including the EF-S 18-55mm lens, a 1GB memory card (SanDisk Ultra II) and a camera bag. Does any of you photographers know a better buy in the range 800-900 EUR? Mail me at e8johan, I use gmail, or just comment this post.

>I’ve just got an ISBN of my own: 1590598318. Makes me happy and stressed – that actually means that I have to complete this thing on time.

>As the F1 circus has stopped for this year, I’ve put together two playlists for all grand prix fans out there (hi Tom!). Try watching The History of the Grand Prix Car and The History of Motor Racing. Both available directly from YouTube.

>I’m just sitting here waiting for crosstools to finish. Hopefully this will make my work really smooth (fewer hours to charge for though). If everything works I will have a bootable image for an ARM hardware by tomorrow.

BTW – anybody from Gothenburg who enjouys playing with Qt – mail me (e8johan, gmail) or post a comment.

>The last changes to the 0.7 branch brings fixes to CMake builds of both Mac (thanks Matt!) and Win32 binaries (now with application icons). We are getting really close to a final 0.7 release.

>Sorry guys – I just managed to do what I hate when others do. I successfully spammed Planet KDE. Notice to blogger users – that is what updating your template does…

>Just trying to convince blogger beta to update the RSS flow.

>I read this article in today’s edition of NyTeknik about a consultancy company (Omicron) recommending Stockholm to switch from Microsoft Office to Open Office. The biggest issue was that some functions where missing so advanced users such as controllers and “technical people” (teknikfolk) might need to keep their old Office suites. Smaller issues where that some fonts where different and other cosmetic details. The big benefits was that all users got started right away – no need for additional training – and the licensing costs.

Another nice aspekt is that the representative for the city of Stockholm says that this is not only about licensing costs. The report is a part in a bigger operation to evaluate possibility to use open source within the city.

Finally, the number of users that can be affected are 25000. Pretty neat if it works out.

>I just switched to Blogger Beta and it seems that it caused my RSS feed to stop getting updated. Bummer. I’ve asked the syndications that I know of to update their settings and to use my ATOM feed as it keeps on working.

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It was a long time since I felt that work was this fun. Right now I’m running uClinux on a soft processor in an FPGA. Right now I get a kernel panic – but still – it is custom hardware with custom software and I can poke at it anywhere in the chain. Well, no time to write here, I’m off to compile my second Linux kernel for the day :-)