As we all know, one can never travel enough. In that light, Kim, the supermodel that shares this life with me announced to me that she’ll be kidnapping me for a couple of days starting on Tuesday. We’ll not be going far, just far enough to get away for a bit and recharge the batteries. (Actually we’re running on solar energy and Port wine, but that doesn’t make for a common metaphor, so there you go.)
But fear not, I’ve taken precautions for this scenario, and the guys over at LinuxNewMedia have kindly helped with that. In the last and the current edition of LinuxUser Magazine, there’s a series about KDE4. It started last month with an article about Plasma that was the first part of a tutorial I’ve written. This month’s edition features a longer article that explains all the easy 129 steps you can follow to get to your own Plasmoid. There’s an example Plasmoids I’ve written for that article, it’s called Dr. Ade, courtesy of Adriaan’s promotion some time ago. (I’m obviously very proud of him — well, maybe it’s also the fact that we had this bet running. We’ve started off with one case of beer that I would give him. For every week I had to wait for his dissertation to be finished, he would give me one beer. Ade, you owe me two crates. No, I won’t forget that.) But I digress. Next month’s edition will conclude the KDE4 mini series of articles with an interview (again, with yours truly) about the future of KDE.
Me being away also means that you won’t hear from me in terms of email, chat, blog or one of the other ways we communicate (did I mention the new KDE Forum?) as for that occasion I won’t be taking my laptop, and I just refuse to write anything longer than a URL on those small devices that are taking over the lives of us geeks.
By now, you should have understood 3 points from this post: a) Don’t expect timely replies to emails sent to me next week, b) If you plan to sneak anything by my eagle eyes that I wouldn’t approve otherwise, concentrate on getting that done before next Saturday (instead of sending me emails), c) Go to your next store, buy Linux User magazine and start learning German (if necessary).