Thursday December 9, 2004

The Year of Rob

• Posted by Rob (#1) on December 9, 2004 03:25 CET

You know, life year in year out isn't really all that different.

• January: I throw things at people for wishing me a happy new year when they are just being polite.
• February: I feel screwed for paying more rent per day than usual. My employer understands though and does the same. I shrug off the December and January hatred once Valentines is out of the way, regardless of having any luck on Valentines or not.
• March: Anglosphere friends get drunk at St. Patrick's and so do I at the Irish pub.
• April: Nothing interesting ever happens in April. I broke that spell with four HorrorPops gigs this year though, including my first trip to Copenhagen. Temperatures rise and life is good again.
• May: PSV or Ajax win the Dutch soccer championship. Once in a decade it's Feyenoord.
• June: On the 17th, I miss Katy.
• July: On the 23rd I turn 17 again and again. Except for one or two years when I was broke, I do this in a foreign country. First because of holidays with parents, later out of habit.
• August: KDE developers get together and code, while the eV board doesn't use the dedicated conference time to finish minutes of the members meeting. I bitch at this in various forms without actually just suggesting they use the conference time for such tasks.
• September: Temperatures drop and I want to move to California.
• October: I have my spring cleaning to prepare for a Halloween party. World Series!
• November: Big utilities bill. My divorced parents start nagging me about visiting for Christmas and the one who doesn't win assumes that means they get me for New Year's Eve. I disown them for that just in case I go first.
• December: Girls I like get boyfriends or in case I am theirs, they dump me.

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How To Kill Open Source

• Posted by Rob (#1) on December 9, 2004 11:56 CET

On Planet KDE, Aaron argues that porting open source applications to Windows is pretty much a bad idea. I agree.

While some people may feel more comfortable making the switch to an open source OS because they can then keep familiar applications, the trick will never work unless all applications users want are available. And forget about that. For example, we'll never get the gamers unless Walmart throws in a Playstation with their Linspire offer.

Extra market share might be attractive for commercial entities involved with open source software, but the community itself has little to gain from it. It won't improve interoperability for those who do use an open source platform and merely creates new problem areas for those who don't.

Let's focus on working for those users who have already supported us for years. Going out of our way to make everyone like us just makes us look greedy and needy.

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Women are from Venus

• Posted by Rob (#1) on December 9, 2004 12:40 CET

A topic on everyone's favorite planet on the The Rasmus forum gave me a brilliant opportunity for a bitter post. Here's what Darkness_Luv wrote:

i like venus..mainly because it looks pretty...but the acid clouds arent particully nice

And Kristalicous asked whether women are from Venus. I'm just putting the two together here: yes, women are from Venus. They look pretty but aren't particulary nice.

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