bjf : Just use your rating power. I think the advogato network is functioning fairly well (although it does seem a bit skewed toward over-certification).
robocoder : I appreciate and share your disappointment with writing that's difficult to understand. Notice how many of the words you mentioned came into English from Latin (usually through French) ? It's interesting to see if non-Latin counterparts exist for some of these words (thanks for your links to the dictionary, btw !). Consider : repertory ~ storehouse, burgeon ~ grow, ameliorate ~ better, lacunae ~ gaps, armamentarium ~ tools, obeisance ~ bow, pejorative ~ belittling, boustrophedonic ~ do what now ? :-) It is interesting and useful to expand one's vocabulary, but writers who refuse to step out of a more elitist vocabulary level really annoy me.
Been working a lot on this CORBA component generator tool, completely rewrote the Python parts in Java (yuk, but it makes for a much cleaner build process). Finished the local C++ component generator, useful for generating components that run in the same process and can communicate directly. Working now on implementing a generator for remote C++ components, components that run in separate processes and have to use CORBA for communication. Hopefully we'll convince the management soon to let us open source the whole project ; I think it's too useful not to.
Contributed a few things to Confix as needed for the generated component code.
Also got back to working on GStreamer a little, and even managed to fix a couple of bugs, which was nice, in preparation for the 0.6.0 release. It's quite educational and fun to get to work on a large(r than one developer) project. Hope to get Jack and Alsa support working much better in the next couple weeks.
I get the jitters when I drink coffee, but I can't help it. Coffee is good. Went boarding this weekend at Klippitztoerl, the weather was beautiful. Got a cold (before I went skiing) but forgot to bring kleenex to work. Doh !
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