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I’m jumping onto the meme a little bit late. I go offline for 24 hours and when I come back at least half of Planet GNOME has blue banners.

However, what disturbed me most about Stallman’s speech wasn’t the rabid rant against Mono and it wasn’t even the fact that he showed his incapability to understand [...]

Here’s a quick screencast of what Markus has been working on: He’s mounted a date-based FUSE filesystem using Zeitgeist and recently added html index pages for each day in the calendar.
For example, all documents that were opened on July 10th, 2009 would be in the virtual directory zeitgeist/2009/07/10.
Update: If you’re on Planet GNOME then you [...]

A friend sent me this private message on Facebook today:
Facebook is recently becoming very overpopulated, there have been many members complaining that Facebook is becoming very slow. Records show that the reason is that there are too many non-active Facebook members and, on the other side, too many new Facebook members.
We will be sending this [...]

Edit: Now that I think of it, the spam most likely isn’t targeted at hackers. My email address was probably found on Ohloh and the spam bot may just be programmed to automatically include a link to the site which it found the email on.
Ugh. More spam has been getting through Gmail’s filters lately. Here’s [...]

Quick introduction for new Planet GNOME readers: I’m a high school student in Ra’anana, Israel and have been involved in GNOME ever since GHOP 2007. After attending the GNOME UI hackfest this past October, I cofounded Zeitgeist and have been working on various new user interfaces since then. Those of you who attended the GNOME [...]

The first draft of my GNOME Journal article on Zeitgeist is below. Criticism and comments are welcome.

Tehran is dark, cold tonight, I can hear screams. scary #iranelection
– A tweet from mohamadreza one hour ago

I’ve been reading the news about the Iranian elections with growing angst. I find a few things particularly disturbing.
 
 

Where is the mainstream media’s coverage of what’s going on in Iran? CNN has one minor article with 3 pictures on [...]

During the last two weeks I took my English, computers, and math matriculation exams. I have the physics exam this Thursday and then I’ll just be left with history and Hebrew lang for another two weeks.
Sorry for disappearing up until now, but I’ll be back online as soon as exams are finished. In the meantime, [...]

UbuntuOne just went live.
You can get a beta invite at http://ubuntuone.com/

Today I participated in the CodeGuru Extreme contest at the Weizmann Institute and took 2nd place.
Congratulations to all of the other winners!