I got a Spanish translation for Filelight today. It turns out I spelt boundaries wrong in the master translation (which is in US-english). I find this deeply amusing

Filelight is doing really well. I’m quite shocked at how well it’s rated at kde-apps.org, and I can only assume that with time, it will fall from 4th place.

Still the sudden popularity of my work is inspiring me to get on and make a new version. The next version is hopefully going to be good. Real good. Integrating into Konqueror and allowing all the interesting features that people have been suggesting in the forums. I’m looking forward to the work, but am delaying as the first few steps are dull.

Because I have to make Filelight behave as a KPart::BrowserExtension, but in order to do that well I have to rip to shreds the Filelight UI, and being a perfectionist, I refuse to spoil my tight code!

So it’s gunna be tedious work because of my high standards.

Anyway. amaroK is where my time is mostly spent at the moment. It’s yet another media player, but it’s not. It’s really very innovative. If you disagree with that statement now, you should come back in a few months and take another look.

It’s been some time, and I thought I’d write. I’ve been free from the monotony of Kodak for some time now, and it was only shortly after leaving that I stopped writing regularly. Frankly I was bored most hours of the day and in need of release, so I vented through my journal. And most satisfying it was.

I know now that normal work is not for me. Given a job that I enjoy I dedicate myself to the task and find it hard to stop until it’s done perfectly. I just need to find such an avenue, I can’t see that avenue being science, maybe I’m wrong. I’m not sure. I just had a really miserable experience at Kodak.

Since then I’ve been programming like crazy. I love it! Filelight is good now, and functionally satisfactory for packaging up and distribution, I have plans though to make the widget generic so it can be used in other software, but currently I’m enjoying coding for amaroK, a media player that could be quite innovative, if our goals continue as planned. But even if that isn’t so and nobody likes it and everybody thinks it’s yet another media player it doesn’t matter because it’s great fun.

I like building things, and engineering solutions. Computers make those two things really easy.