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Makoto has the best Maemo/Nokia job ad ever on his blog check it out. Especially if you are into gstreamer and multimedia.

We’ve been preparing a revamp of the maemo.org website conglomerate using Midgard CMS, the same system that’s been considered for the upcoming Gnome.org revamp. In Maemo there’s quite similar situation - we wish to replace several traditional web services (wiki, blogs, static content, project pages, software catalog etc) with one setup that hopefully works out […]

I had this problem lately, that sometimes sound just stopped working. This is not related to the previous incident - I checked that first… but I was to find another surprise this time..
Turns out Acrobat Reader was to blame for this one:

# lsof /dev/snd/pcm*
COMMAND PID USER […]

Internet and Lufthansa free promotion offer. Sweet. Thanks everyone for a very interesting Summit. I am on my way back home, somewhere above the UK I would guess. The 770 really works fine for the copious legroom and space of *ahem* less than first class
Does anyone know a flight tracking service one could […]

We’re making nice progress in GeoClue in GnomeSummit. Lots of people got interested in the idea, and a lot of lively brainstorming and excitement: “So I want to make GWeather show your current weather automatically, based on your location!” etc.. Awesome!

Happy Hackers brainstorming GeoClue
One of our projects is to have our hacker community more location […]

Does anyone know if there is a way to add geotags into blog posts via any of the weblog API’s?
Another thing that we need to figure out is how to add those tags into blog RSS feeds. The goal is to get Planet to become aware of the location of each post, so we can […]

More great reasons to buy a Mac!
Yes. We went to the Apple Store.

Just to let you know, there’s a really really good camera store in Cambridge, MA, near the Galleria shopping center. Google maps directions here, it’s about a mile away from MIT Media Lab.

embedded summit
Originally uploaded by TuomasKuosmanen
Other side of the view in the embedded hackfest in Gnome Summit 2006, MIT media lab.

Inkscape rocks. The more I use it, the more I like it.
But why the heck is the “origo” (0,0) in the bottom left corner of the canvas??
I can not understand the logic behind this, maybe it is something that is planned to be fixed to be “the rest of the world -compatible” later?