The Whole is Less than the Sum of the Parts

It was good to meet some of the AbiWord guys (and girls), as well as my OpenedHand coleagues over the weekend in Brussels (and to have some Leffe). As others noted, the conference was somewhat disorganised, and there was no working internet access, but there was good stuff on the programme. Some benefit already came of this — yesterday I commited a patch that should make life easier for the OpenEmbedded guys and other cross-compilers.

Even better, on my arrival in Scotland I was welcomed by the news that Scotland demolished England in the Six Nations — what a weekend!

Fixed the backspace bug in the CVS maemo port. Updated package is here; as usual this is CVS Head, hence unstable, etc. (If you notice bugs, please do not report them in my blog, but in the bugzilla.)

Time to head off for FOSDEM.

This made me smile, although I am not sure that is an appropriate response.

Had a great, but rather long day on the Buchaille yesterday. Graeme and I set from the Laggangarbh at 9.15, for the North Buttres (IV,4). The climb turned out to be busy; we could see three other parties as we approached - we lost about an hour waiting at the bottom.

The climb turned out to be hard, and the interest was sustained the whole way. The crux turned out to be the start of the second pitch, where Graeme had a few tense moments, as did I directly below him. Over all the climbing was superb, with breathtaking situations, and impeccable protection.

We took longer than anticipated, emerging at the top of the third pitch at 5.30 pm, as the light was fading. We were in for a surprise. Read the rest »

Had another great day on the Ben on Saturday. Leaving John and Judith behind to enjoy the Ledge Route, Bob and I set out with the intention of having a look at the Goodeve’s Climb (III). Arriving at the foot of the north face, we were dismayed by how badly conditions deteriorated since the weekend before. The already high snow line seemed to have receded even further, and the snow was suggary for much the day, and so we arrived at the bottom pitch of Glover’s Chimney (shared with Goodeve’s Climb) slightly aprehensive, not sure what we were going to find higher up. Read the rest »

The AbiWord CVS now contains basic hibernation code; installable deb package is here, with the usual disclaimers about unstable CVS code, etc.