Yesterday at work I ended up using perl to generate VRML. What decade is this?

For those who are wondering: I have started my new job. I am a visions systems engineer in the robotics and automation divison of  Scott Technology. Specifically I’m dealing with the automation of freezing works. This means my job involves: X-rays. Robots with spinning blades. Interfering with sheep. Two of these are actually mentioned in…

Just on the 2.24 code freeze a memory leak in the trash applet was pointed out to me. The proposed patch was simple: } g_object_unref (icon); + g_object_unref (info); } static void It came from a trusted contributor. I checked that the the info variable really did need unrefing. I ran it past the release…

For my family, more photos. The photos are now in two sections, the first part is the same as the photo-set that was previously there, the new photos are all in part II.

For my family, the first four days of Anya’s life in photos. Its one big page with all the photos, so be warned if you’re on a slow connection.

My daughter. Born at 5.13am, weighing 1.9 kg and 6 weeks premature. Mother and baby are doing well. Rage! – Anya at 30 minutes old. The labour was fast (four hours – this is a first child) and went well despite Anya coming bum first. At six weeks premature, Anya’s in the newborn intensive care…

Thanks to the superb work of Matteo Zandi the invest applet has undergone some major improvements. If you ever worried about the strange grey square, then the next gnome-applets release if for you. The stock-health indicator has been integrated with the main icon, it now looks better and takes less space. Spark-lines show recent activity.…

This pram was the first serious thing we purchased in anticipation of Anya’s arrival. Since I’ve finally downloaded the photo off the camera I thought I’d better let my mother see it. The first thing of any sort we purchased for Anya was a strange woolen clown that everyone thinks is an octopus. The arms…

Just over three weeks ago, World45’s sole investor decided to cut his losses and close the company. From his perspective I suppose this made a lot of sense, but it was rather sudden. The ironic bit is that I think we’d finally figured out how to get the company to the break even point. Unfortunately,…

Do you fancy a bit of a challenge writing low-level C code to go as fast as possible on multi-core machines in a bare-metal sparc environment? Or do you like kernel hacking (Solaris and Linux)? Then we have the job for you at World45. Details can be found at www.world45.com. The catch? We want you…