Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Read news; it's been a while - missed some amusing(?) attempts at suppressing expression by coercion; death threats for being Danish ?. Pleased with Boris Johnson's comment:

"If you are a Muslim and your faith is strong and you believe in God and in your prophet then I don't think you should be remotely frightened of what some ludicrous infidel says or does about your religion or any depiction he produces."

"I think we've got to move away from this hysterical and rather patronising idea that we have got to treat the Muslim religion with kid gloves and not subject it to all the same rough and tumble that we subject other faiths to."

After all, who would question that Islam is a religion of peace & love with a high commitment to honesty & integrity, open debate & discussion of contentious issues and letting the truth speak for itself ? I guess at least the Danish Bacon industry will be unaffected.
Poked at mail. It seems Petr has unwound some of the multi-distro ooo-build options problems which is nice. Great to see Mathias Hopf's nice 1000fold speedup for a cairo/X corner-case hurting desktop backgrounds.
Battled Xgl for an hour or so before giving up; strace is (as normal) broken - changing behavior & locking up X, and apparently my card is not happy at high res either.
Unwound a tangled vino/a11y issue on session start with some nasty interaction; ended up with a patch that should shrink login time a little, but just works around it - spammed Mark. Now I can login, it's clear our OO.o/a11y needs more love.
Phoned BUPA - efficient bunch seemingly. Rodrigo has a nice plan for a similar win in gnome-panel (after a 1st attempt). Conf call with Intel, nice work on OO.o happening, more a11y poking.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2006-02-03: Friday