Sometimes it happens via dialog, sometimes it happens via notification bubble, but either way my computer can be quite chatty. I’m wondering if there are any guidelines for designing programs to be good citizens in their chattiness. Some questions that I have that maybe could be used to come up with a set of guidelines …

I’ve had quite a few people ask me in recent weeks, “You’re vegetarian? But how can you enjoy the holidays? What will you eat?” Well, here’s a sampling of what I ate for Christmas. 🙂

If you design something in Inkscape and are looking to Scribus-ify it, you will save yourself a world of pain by opening the Inkscape SVG directly in Scribus (the file extension is hidden by default, pick ‘all files’ in the file extension dropdown of the open dialog) rather than importing the SVG. I learned this …

Bodhi Koji PackageDB (this is basically the GNOME package icon but 14×14) Bugzilla CVS Did I forget one? Let me know. They are cute aren’t they? My favorite is the Bodhi one 🙂 Inkscape SVG sources are available here.

I read an interesting email today from Michael Tiemann. He said, in part, “The open source model makes a big deal about “showing the code”, and indeed when one proudly shows what one has *done*, then others may be inspired to do the same. By contrast, referring to something that somebody else has asked you …