Warning: This post really has nothing to do with KDE. Read at your own risk. Better yet, complain to whoever is in charge of Planet KDE to remove me from the planet as I don't have an svn account ;).

I imagine many of you (and presumably all of you) have felt constrained at some point in your life. Maybe it was your job, your family situation or for some other reason. But for whatever reason we all feel it at some point in our lives.

And I'm telling you that I feel it now.

Konqueror and KHTML continue to be a bit of a contentious issue. My last post received quite a treatment.  There was a lot of good feedback and I appreciate the thoughtful comments people made.  There were some really good thoughts and there are a few things I want to cover that I previously didn't. So first things first:

I've been on a fairly long hiatus from this blog.  However class, contracting and starting a business have left me without much extra time.  That being said, there have been a lot of different things kicking around in my head.  This one has for awhile:

Is your blog syndicated on the planet?  Is there a possibility that there are non-ASCII characters appearing in your blog?  If so please make sure that they are properly encoded into XML entities.  Many XML readers are very strict so if you do not correctly encode these entities they will die (Firefox and dot.kde.org are both notable).

It's been awhile since I've posted anything. School was very busy and I've been on vacation.

First, an update. The dot is very near completion. I've been saying this for awhile, I know. However, it will be coming out in January (and before the release of 4.2)! I wanted to have it out a lot sooner but school has kept me from finishing up the few remaining issues. But now, being on break I'll have some time to finish it up.

Oh ya and...



See everyone there!

A status update for everyone, the Dot update is in progress. Both myself and the other person working on it have been pretty bogged down by school, but some of the final pieces are coming together.

It isn't often that I come across something as cool as this. It's something that's simple, but really amazing. First, watch the video, then read the details.

These are the kinds of things that we should be aspiring to. Being on Linux (mostly), we can throw open the doors to make improvements. Maybe KDE should have a goal of a fully composited a usable desktop in ten seconds.

So I'm on twitter now. My wonderful twitter page is somewhat blank right now, but will be full of useful things in the future. Also, I want to follow any KDE and Drupal people on twitter. Put usernames or links in the comments so that I can follow you!

Warning: This is not a KDE related post in any way.
Update: Doh! Totally messed up the link. Should be fixed now.

This post is my triumphant return first to getting another blog post up (though the hiatus was not that long) and more importantly for the triumphant return of #kde-www. So listen closely yee wayfarer of the interwebs for this journey will be long an perilous (not really).