the corner office

The majority of the weekend was spent playing with Gentoo. An emerge world saw a heap of updates to KDE and Gnome come down the line... many many many hours of compiling. Then I decided to try rolling my own Thunderbird. Not a good idea... that chugged away for hours. Then Eclipse... couple more hours, and finally OpenOffice which took nearly 13 hours to compile. The novelty of compiling my own stuff is wearing off. On the up side, apart from a looong list of things to tweak and sort out, I have a semi-usable system, and apart from minor details like mail and Notes access, I'm spending less and less time in Windows.

Very few other distractions over the weekend - we rented a DVD on Saturday (Big Fish - very good), and met P and L and A at the Manhattan Grill on Sunday night. Speaking of Manhattan, P's leaving soon on her company's annual ra-ra. This year they're going to Cancun and New York. Bah.

It also turns out I missed a chance to meet up with Mr Blakey-Milner who was up to present at the Open Source Software Africa conference. It's only been, oh, 7 years since we last met up? :)