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I released the first version (0.1) of Patchwork a few days ago. Patchwork is the new (open source!) version of the patch tracking system originally written for the Linux PPC64 mailing list - it 'catches' patches that have been posted to a mailing list, and lists them on a web page for the project's maintainer to track.

I've recently discovered the KDE audio player amaroK (which, by the way, is the freaking business - I won't reiterate why) . One of amaroK's features is integration with audioscrobbler, a music database. In short, amaroK can send your currently-playing track to the audioscrobbler database, and using that data combined with that of others, can link you to other artists/songs that you might like.

Interesting reading - this usenet thread, from 1992, where Andrew Tanenbaum states that Linux is obsolete, and the microkernel has won.

Today Leon bought me a box of Krispy Kreme from Sydney (apparently they've opened up a store in the airport now). A couple of doughnuts later, I noticed this on the box:

Anton discovers whereisanton.com (edited for brevity):

Ever needed to know the whereabouts of everyone's favourite ppc64 hacker? Don't know where the big Power5 machines are? whereisanton.com answers the age-old question, "Where is Anton?"

I've just set up another instance of my patch tracking system for linuxppc-dev and linuxppc-embedded, to go with the original one for linuxppc64-dev.

As part of my 2002 Honours year in Computer Science, I've been conducting research into Network Load Balancing under the supervision of Dr David Glance. In particular, improving the performance of the Linux Virtual Server project by implementing dynamic feedback of server load information.

dcop is KDE's access-to-everything tool, which most KDE apps export some sort of interface to. For example, to ask the KWeatherService the current temperature in Canberra (which has station code 'YSCB'):

In 2003, David Glance, Alex Reid and I conducted a small survey and study on the use of Open Source Software in tertiary education institutions, this paper published in First Monday outlines the findings.