gregoa's blog

felt ill. went to bed at 10:30 p.m. left the bed at 10:30 a.m. felt better.

it seems that I've neglected my blog in the last weeks. maybe I should read fewer blogs from others. or tackle new activities that are worth to be blogged about.

today sabine painted her room, picked up her last belongings, and handed in the key to our flat. I felt tears in my eyes when she said goodbye.

one hour later caro called in to confirm that she will move into sabine's room — & I rejoiced.

this year's season of the open air cinema in innsbruck started last friday. today I managed to see the first movie (despite the moderate temperature & the high humidity). the movie was good, the court of the zeughaus rather empty, I didn't freeze to death.

today's the first anniversary of my blog. the first entry was published on 2005-08-06 17:47:08 CEST.
time to look back.

entries per category:

debian          67
misc            12
music           19
personal        34

entries per month:

July 2006       5
June 2006       5
May 2006        8
April 2006      10
March 2006      6
February 2006   9
January 2006    11
December 2005   10
November 2005   7
October 2005    16
September 2005  21
August 2005     24

total status:

Total categories:               4
Total entries:                  132
Total visits (last year):       2167

articles:

9, among them 8 with debian/linux tipps.

it seems that the enthusiasm at the beginning has faded soon (which doesn't tell anything about the quality :-)). most entries are about my debian/computer related adventures.
& I'm still happy with using nanoblogger.

let's see what the next year brings ;-)

it's summer. finally. it's hot & I'm sweating but I'm not gonna complain (like most people do) because I really like this summer after months of pre-winter, winter, & post-winter.

the only minor annoyance is that I have to put the chocolate in the fridge because it's almost melting on my desk ;-)

update: one day later: rain is beating horizontally against the windows; hail can be seen too inbetween ... a typical summer thunderstorm.
after the thunderstorm the temperature dropped from 31°C to 20°C. hm. — 2006-07-21

if you want to know what garfield thinks about gravity (& this cartoon made my day yesterday) look here.

once in a while (i.e. twice a year) I want to print out a mail (usually confirmations from flight tickets or stuff like that); up to now muttprint did a great job. not today: the result was some illegible resized-image-like sheet of paper.

fiddling around with options, reading stuff didn't help for some time. until I detected the following line in muttprint's source code:

if ($Config{PRINT_COMMAND} eq "CUPS") {

it's there in muttprint --help (& in the identical manpage) too:

CUPS support is turned on by "CUPS" (or set it to any command
which containes the string "$CUPS_OPTIONS").

well that's it: setting PRINT_COMMAND="CUPS" in ~/.muttprintrc does the job.

& no, I don't really understand it; & I think the problem was not on muttprint's end but somewhere in CUPS' depths ...

beginning with 2006-07-01 I have reduced my weekly working hours from 40 to 32; at my own request.
so today was my first free friday — & I enjoyed the possibility to sleep extensively ;-)

on other news: jabref has entered the Debian archive. yeah!

update: today mailtextbody — the last pending package — has entered the Debian archive. yeah again! — 2006-07-08

listening to italians in a train compartment is a good language training.