joe shaw

This little clay Rupert has been sitting on my desk at home for a long time:

It is one of my most prized posessions.

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A few people have asked why netapplet is a notification area applet and not a GNOME panel applet, and the reason is simple: one of our requirements was that we needed to work in KDE. GNOME panel applets don’t. And while I’m on the topic, the fact that you can just do:

tray_icon = egg_tray_icon_new (”myapplet”);
gtk_container_add (GTK_CONTAINER (tray_icon), real_widget);

… makes it a hell of an API, and much more convenient than the bonobo-related hoops needed for a panel applet (although many are well hidden from the programmer).

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I think it’s pretty great that the defense attorney in one of the military tribunal cases, a Navy Lt. Commander, can go to a news conference in his dress blue uniforms and say that the military trials are not even legal and seriously question the mertis of the government’s position. It’s the type of thing we take for granted in civilian trials, but when you see it in the military it stands out as something special… although it probably shouldn’t.

This eWeek article uses the term “electronic jihad” or “e-jihad” four times, making it the central theme for the whole article. They even insert it suspiciously into one person’s quote:

“There’s significant worry in the [Internet] community that these attacks have a greater meaning,” said one Internet operator, who declined attribution. “They could be related [to an electronic jihad] or not. Nobody knows.”