I started off this quarter using a smart playlist that only played songs I hadn’t heard in the last quarter in an attempt to listen to even more great music, but Amarok lost my library which clears out the last played field and so I ended up with lots of repeats again.  Oh well!  It’s all great music!

1. Five Iron Frenzy (65 plays) - I continued to listen to some great music from my high school years

Civ V (11 Hrs) - talk of the expansion pack made me want to play some more Civ.  I played a scenario and then I played a regular game.  I had a blast and I can’t wait to buy the expansion pack.

Peggle Deluxe (5 hrs) - Worked on some of the challenge puzzles

Team Fortress 2 - (3 hrs) - played when the Pyro pack came out.  Really enjoyed the new mode.

Only one photo was interesting enough for this time rand for my photo time capsule:

Back in February I posted the code to the data engine I developed for my plastmoid.  At the time I’d wanted to clean up my plasmoid before posting it on here, however, I’ve become stuck on a key feature so I was hoping that maybe by posting the code I could get some help.  (As well as provide an example to others)

First of all, plasmoids need a certain structure to the folders. Here’s what mine looks like: . ??? contents ?   ??? ui ?   ??? Button.qml ?   ??? Button.qml~ ?   ??? content ?   ?   ??? ItemDelegate.qml ?   ?   ??? ItemDelegate.qml~ ?   ??? flickrhelpers ?   ?   ??? addtogroup.py ?   ?   ??? addtogroup.py~ ?   ?   ??? removefromgroup.py ?   ?   ??? removefromgroup.py~ ?   ??? flickrviews.py~ ?   ??? flickrviews.qml ?   ??? flickrviews.qml~ ?   ??? test.qml~ ??? metadata.desktop ??? metadata.desktop~

Once again it’s time for my Photojojo time capsule.

Just one game while waiting to feed my daughter

Portal 2  (1 hour) - Just played some commentary levels.  It was fun, but the inability to save in that mode kept me from doing it more

This photojojo photography time capsule consists of one Orioles game and then photos from the birthday trip to Chicago we took for my dad’s birthday.

You can see it online here and make your own.

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I’ve mentioned this on my blog before, but there are a few passions that I have been engaged in to various degrees over the course of my life. One of those is the creation of videos. Of course, video creation is much more involved than my other passions. First of all, you have to worry about sound as well as video. Second, it usually has to have a story or purpose - so it’s at least three times as involved as photography, writing, or programming. So my video production has fallen off quite a bit in the last few years. You can see that if you go to my video site: drop the bomb productions. Although I may have done some tidying up by the time this post goes up, before that I hadn’t touched it in 4 years.

Around a year ago I decided to KDE in Spanish to learn some technical terms. Back then I was using GDM, but now I’m using KDM. I didn’t see a way to set the language! How would I change the language to Spanish? I took a look online and found instructions. I’m going to reproduce them here for others. The great thing about the way that KDE handles things vs the way that Gnome does is that you can set a fallback language. When might this be useful? Let’s take a Vietnamese computer user. Vietnamese people (at least of a certain age) tend to be fluent in Vietnamese and French with some familiarity with English. So a Vietnamese person could set his computer to Vietnamese with a fallback to French for any programs that didn’t have translations into Vietnamese. As usual, I LOVE the level of customization in the KDE desktop.