it seems the spammers have been flooding planetsoc.
and I can't even delete comments on my own blog. wtf!?

whoever the admin is, please, kill the spam... if there's no easy way to filter it then just disable commenting, 'cause soc is over now. I really don't want my blog covered in viagra ads. I'd rahter delete all my posts - but then a little bit of history would be erased, too. :(

although I haven't slept one bit and it's nearly 1pm. I think I've been awake over 24 hours.
er... now what?
I guess I should do some programming this evening if I find the time. er, and if I don't fall asleep first. maybe programming can wait 'till tomorrow.

yeah, so my soc project is done. since friday or saturday I've been trying to merge kopete trunk to my branch, to make sure my code works with whatever everyone else has been doing.

you wouldn't believe the fucking problems I've had. svn merge, dbus, qt-copy, ccmake, qca, qconf, weird things in kdenetwork... all of it wants to stop me from compiling kopete. it's really gettting quite fucking ridiculous.

so, I've no fucking clue when my code will actually be available, because I'm too fucking pissed off at the endless bullshit I'm going through! goddamn fucking stupid fucking programs! gah! I am so sick of all the tools breaking every time I try to upgrade anything vaguely related to kde4!

midterm payment just arrived :) took dhl nearly a week, and there were a heck of a lot of stickers on that envelope... but it's here. and now I must run out - I'm late, I'm late!

hmm, I kinda forgot about this blog for a while. what's new?

well, I finished all the features I'd planned on time. it's just bugfixing and documentation left.
I decided to do what gaim did and blindly use aim filetransfer protocol on icq, for now. but before kde4 is released I'm darn well figuring out what icq is doing.
I'm a little more concerned about another bug: aim 5.9 hates me. it'll send files, but won't accept them at all.
also, no official aim client will let me do direct send - I've tried to figure out why, and I can't.

unfortunately, my brain has been kinda fried the last few days. I'm not really capable of working right now. hopefullly I'll be able to think clearly befoe the deadline; I want to at least get documentation in order and do one last pass over the code before merging it into trunk.

[update: I chose wordpress.]

SoC is nearly over, so I guess I won't be using this blog much longer. but my only other one is livejournal, which doesn't really count... it's more of a social thing. and angsty venting thing ;)
so, I want a real blog, for rambling on about my projects after soc... but.. I'm not sure what software to go with. I see lots of different things being used, and lots of them look quite nice...

does anyone have any recommendations? important pros/cons to watch out for?

well, I'm at the vancouver python conference this weekend, and so far it's been fun :) talks about the future of python, python and .Net (eeek, the evil empire! ;)... alcohol and neverputt - a very amusing combination :) and now I'm in the intro to python lecture.

I didn't know a thing about python before this, so it's been.. confusingly intersting. :) looks like a language I might like. met some cool people too, which is slightly more important to me - vanlug meetings have a reputation for being rather dry and boring. perhaps they've scared off all the younger geeks... but now that I've met a few maybe we can start a more interesting lug :)

ok, so somehow my mentor managed to appear properly authorised on icq. but, then the evil news: icq's not using the same protocol. *most* of the rendezvous is the same, but it's a different cap, and the format of the 2711 TLV is totally different and undocumented. gaim, it seems, ignores this and pretends that icq is aim, which means it can't really do icq filetransfers with any client other than itself. should I do this, or try to reverse-engineer it, with two weeks left in my project? :P

also, I have a fucked-up bug. my counter in a for loop soemtimes fails to increment. seriously. there are times when it's fine, and times when it goes into an infinite loop. haven't a clue wtf it thinks it's doing.

hmm. I was up most of last night programming :) so my brain is kinda fried today... but I got the encoding thing done, plus various other bits and pieces, so I'm on schedule again and doing well...

now, my big problem is I have no icq testers. there was one person that added me, and then kopete crashed so I never found out who it was. so I still don't know if my filetransfer code works for icq :( and my mentor hasn't been around much either - er, speak of the devil, he's online now :)

if you have icq (and a client that can do filetransfers, of course), please add me. #273454723.

[edit] meh, nevermind...

lots of little bits and pieces cleaned up. various minor bugs fixed, ui stuff added, and I'm ready to start testing icq - if I can find anyone to help me test. :) I only have one contact on my icq list so far, and he's using kopete 0.12 (which obviously can't do filetransfers).

still haven't started on hte encoding stuff I'm supposed to do this week - was too wrapped up in testing, forgot to ask about it. but there's still plenty of time in the week to learn about that.

what's bugging me right now is that I could've sworn I had good reason for wanting filetransfer feedback in the chatwindow..