A new podcast in a day or two

Sal and I recorded another podcast... but this one is with Aaron Seigo, who is a developer for KDE 4. It's a great podcast, when it comes out you REALLY should download it.

I was talking to George (the belter from the boat, not my customer who records porn movies from SBS) the other day on Skype, and he asked me exactly what The Coding Zone is. I told him, and also visited it to give him some examples of topics discussed on it. Anyway, one of the topics looked interesting, so I read the article, and learnt something new. It seems that every time I go there I learn something useful!

The Cost + 5% leaflets thing was a complete fizz-out. NOT ONE person came in about it. NOT ONE person called. The advertising company reckons the leaflets went out. What crap. It was a fairly quiet day too.

I wrote a GUI to make it easier to encode the UbuntuOS Podcast. Not that it's difficult - far from it. I just felt like making something. In the end it's actually a useful program, because George is still finding his feet with encoding the podcast, and he always sets the bitrate too high; so if he uses my program everything will be great.

There's a little inside-joke at the end of the next podcast. Listen out for it.

The Gizmo Project now has the ability to log into MSN and AIM for you, so you can do all your instant messaging and phoning from a single program. Except if you use Jabber or one of the other "To be supported" protocols. In my experience, Gizmo works quite well for MSN, but I'll generally stick to Gaim anyway.

I saw the movie "She's The Man" yesterday. Let me just say that I love Amanda Bynes, and this one has overtaken "Girls On Top" as my favourite movie. I've always loved her, and this just made me remember it :-P

Also, I realised that all the free space on my external hard disk's NTFS partition is going to waste. There's 50 gigs free, and my ext3 partition has about 20 gigs free. So I installed ntfs-3g. There's some big problems though - Gnome Volume Manager doesn't automount it, because it's now (through necessity) in the fstab. So if I turn the hard disk on after the computer starts up, the partition won't be mounted unless I do "sudo mount -a". And if I turn the hard disk on before the computer, then due to a bug in Gnome or HAL, the non-fstabbed partitions won't mount!

That's all I can think of at the moment.