I've been gaming more recently, on hardware that is decent-in-some-contexts-but-definitely-not-in-this-one which has meant pathetic frame rates as low as 7~12FPS as my save files grew bigger. A kind soul took pity on me and installed a better graphics card in my machine while I wasn't looking - which of course …

In the spirit of immersion, I switched the laptop's language to Japanese, however most of the Gnome menus remained in English even after switching the System Language altogether, logging out etc. Another profile on the laptop shows the menus for Activities, etc in Japanese just fine so it wasn't a …

I'm taking a year out to travel in Japan on a working holiday visa, starting with a couple of months of studying the language some more. I landed about 2 weeks ago. The school put me at a slightly higher level than I had dared to hope and I am …

Last week-end I attended FOSDEM for the 7th time. It's kinda strange to say and think - if someone tells me they've been going to this or that open-source conference for 7 years I tend to assume they're hardcore and totally know what they're doing. I go to hang out with …

Together with a couple of colleagues, I wrote a short report about PyCon Ireland 2014. Once again the conference was a lot of fun and I'm looking forward to the 2015 edition! :)