Finally some “me” time!
And hopefully some Source Mage and Kubuntu time, too.
January was as busy as December was, which didn’t give me much time to settle down after the holidays and do anything substantial, at least by my standards. I didn’t even get the chance to really digest the KDE 4.0 release and subsequent events, such as the KDE 4 release party. I’ve used KDE 4.0 for a few days now, but I’ve returned to 3.5.8 since I’m not sure what use I have for KDE 4.0 right now, or what I can do to help. So in the meantime, I have returned to a relatively problem-free setup.
The last 2-3 weeks have been pretty gruelling, more psychologically/emotionally than physically (but you’d notice that your body sort of “catches up” to your state of mind) and I’ve been treated to a few real-life lessons in dealing with people. I also had my first encounter with MS Office 2007 as well as meeting MS Publisher once more. I’d say that working with Publisher was quite easy, specially for simple purposes. The new ribbon interface in MS Office 2007 was a bit daunting at first though. Luckily, Publisher didn’t have that new UI. The most interesting (and frustrating) experience I had was that a publishing/printing house could get by with just having MS Word and Excel installed on their computers. Not even Adobe Photoshop. Quite intriguing.
In the meantime, I’ve been able to finish my C++ How to Program (Deitel & Deitel) book, although I just sort of skimmed on the last few chapters, unlike my intensive focus on the first ten chapters. I was pretty much disappointed by the quality of the material near the end. There were very obvious errata and it felt as if the last 10 or so chapters were written a bit hurriedly or, in this case, probably not fully revised (since this is the 5th edition). For a book that aims to be a classroom textbook, that’s a bit unfortunate. Anyway, I think I’ve gotten enough C++ to be able comfortably start learning Qt. This puts me one step closer to KDE and world konquest. 
Hopefully the coming days will be better.
