Tim Ginn's Personal Blog

Well, I’m listed on Planet KDE now, which is nice. On a related note, I was unaware that Drupal didn’t actually close open HTML tags when it generates the short preview… that lead to some “pretty interesting” results. That should be fixed now (once Planet KDE updates and this post is shown there).

Queen’s was good, the drive up was pretty long, but it’s a nice route through “The Apple Route”. I stayed the night in Victoria Hall, and had breakfast in Leonard Hall, which was nice. After that I was off to the Biosciences Complex for a presentation, followed by a conference in smaller groups. For lunch I had some Pita thing. After lunch I had an individual conference about course selection (which was cool, because the peer advisor is in Computing, Cognitive Science). I’ve still yet to meet a single person from my year in my program though. The Queen’s School of Computing is pretty small though, there’s about 120 people there, and the classes are capped at 30 students each… which is in sharp constrast with the PSYC100 course that has 450 in a class.

My timetable is the required courses for my degree, PSYC100, Critical Thinking (a Philosophy course) and Cognitive Science.

Well, it looks like I’m going in to school again today. I’m likely to be there for all of the morning and some of the afternoon, moving off-lease computers to the loading dock (the last part of my co-op credit). I’m definitely looking forward to the end of that task, as it will bring me that much closer to finishing the list.

At about one in the afternoon, I make the 3 hour drive to Queen’s for SOAR (where I pre-register for University courses, etc.).

I guess I’ll have to talk to my group, and get them to finish up their parts of the Software Engineering project, so that I can finish mine and package it all up and submit it. It’s quite a cool little project (creating a primitive programming language to teach grade 9′s how to program, by having them compete against each other by programming tanks that duel). I’ll probably be taking my laptop to Queen’s and working on something from the list there (or if I choose not to drive, on the trip there/back).

I’ve been working on spell checking the entire KDE web site (yes, it’s a huge task) and was greatly assisted by a script from kdesdk/scripts/… the only problem is that fixing so many different places requires submitting patches to a large number of individuals and/or groups. For the KOffice ones, I could commit the changes myself, however, I don’t have access to directly submit to the other web-based areas of KDE.

From www/areas/

Done Or Not Responsible For

• koffice/
• kdemail/
• appmonth/
• download/
• multimedia/
• extragear/
• kde-ev/
• worldwide/

Accepted (but not implemented)

• artist/

Submitted

• accessibility/

– Not Yet Verified Manually –

Pretty Small (diff is under 500 lines)

• docs/
• enterprise/
• pim/
• printing/
• quality/
• sysadmin/
• usability/

Large-ish (diff is over 500 lines)

• cvs-digest/
• edu/
• events/
• people/
• women/