rippy, laptops, and lots of other things

After trying out a subjectless blog entry last wednesday, I found out that Rippy did not support them. Thus, I sent a cry for help to rippy's author, and found out that it was a design issue; rippy needs a way to distinguish between different items (which makes sense), and does so by checking the subject, and the subject alone (which makes less sense, but still enough so that I understand). So, I had a go at it, and wrote a patch of just a few lines which allows one to chose the tag that will make an item unique, sent it back to him, and applied it to the rippy installation I'm running. It seems to work now, I'm happy. To add to the fun, the rippy author mailed me back that he'll include the patch in his next release. Way to go!

Last sunday, we had a rehearsal day with our flute choir. Which was kinda fun, playing the flute all day. Didn't really do anything else, then, except for reading mail (which included a request from Peter Breuer to sponsor a new ENBD upload. Doing that now)

Yesterday evening, I did a test run of the talk I'll be giving at FOSDEM next weekend, with my brother as the audience, and got some feedback from him. I'm happy to have done that; I know that when I have to do something I'm not familiar with yet, and it involves facing a lot of people, that I'll be nervous as hell, so it's good to have done this before really doing a talk.

Speaking of which, there're details available about the FOSDEM keysigning party. If you want to attend, go to the website of the keysigning party, and do what they tell you to.

In other news, I've received a comment on one of my recent blog entries, telling me that a white laptop screen does not use more power (cool) and that it's probably just a loose wire or so. I just opened up my laptop (uh, s/laptop/puzzle/), and reseated some plugs; unfortunately, it does not seem fixed. Since I'm not a laptop specialist, and since this is still a fairly recent (thus, valuable) laptop, I'll stop right there. Will probably have to bring it back for repairs, which isn't going to be cheap, if last time is any measure. Darn.