.. computers. LCA is in town, and there’s bands of nerds prowling the streets looking for their next innocent victim.

Haven’t seen much so far, been sick with a mild cold courtesy of Finn. Caught Robert Love bashing his head on a table and giving a quick demo of Beagle and F-Spot. Beagle is kinda cool, except the backends are very GNOME specific, which is kinda annoying for non-GNOME users. It also explicitly calls “nautilus” to open files and so on, although I have a patch to call “konqueror” instead.

F-Spot looks ok, although doesn’t seem to be as functional yet as digikam.

Did a bit of work while watching horms’ talk on SSL. I’d never looked into SSL but it looks like it’s actually a fairly well thought out protocol, although he was talking about essentially the fourth revision, so they’ve had time to get it right.

Saw a really interesting talk by Simon Burton (I think), about using these weird gloves to control music programs. Would have liked to have caught his act at Toast, but wasn’t feeling up to a night out.