Lots, lots, lots of bicycles. After 5 days I still haven't totally grokked the explicit and implicit rules of where to walk to avoid being run over by a bike. But I survived!

At GUADEC, when someone asks you "what do you do?" they mean in Gnome. I met very …

I will be flying to Amsterdam tomorrow. Bag's ready, only need to select 1 or 2 books that are both interesting and light. If everything goes according to plan flight-wise I'll be able to attend the Gnome Women dinner tomorrow night, which should be good fun and a great way …

From the GUADEC blog:

1. Who are you and what do you do?

I'm a software developer from Dublin, Ireland. Passionate about open-source and education.

2. How did you get into GNOME?

Gnome has been the default desktop for most distro I've used. After a while I decided to see if I …

XTerm control sequences are those sequences of characters that when typed into a terminal, can have all sort of cool side-effects. Try this one:

$ echo -e '\e[33;45mHello!'

If you're not too enthused about yellow and magenta (shame!) type in:

$ echo -e '\e[0m'

Many other neat things can …

Feeling a bit anxious about ash clouds, but looking forward to the conference!