Happy Birthday KDE! As we all know, I am exactly 20 years older than KDE, meaning I’m turning 11111 today,
while KDE is turning 11. (Please gracefully note that I spare you the boilerplate bits about
the history of KDE by refering you to the slides that are up on
that spot of the IntarWeb.)
That’s a lot of ones. More numbers include 1970 (the vintage year of the bottle of
Colheita
Kim gave me, love!), 13 (the number of beers I had last night), 1 (the number of glasses of wine I had), 0 (the
number of hangovers I’m suffering) and 42 (d’oh).
Now I don’t claim that yesterday’s party (given by a couple of girls I know, 3 to be exact) did improve my
clarity of thinking, but at least nobody
mistakes me for,
say, Elvis, or Johnny Cash. (While I certainly would be flattered.) But no t-shirt for me.
So the train I’m sitting in right now brings me to Eindhoven, the so-called City of Lightbulbs (or something,
it’s the hometown of Philips). At Fontys Hogescholen, today there’s the second day of the second edition of
T-DOSE. The organisers were thoughtful enough and schedule my talk on KDE4
(no surprise there) late in the afternoon. Next weekend, I’ll be killing time over in Krefeld / Germany at
Ubucon. Back to
Turning Accessors into Mutators.
