Lousy Day
I had a lousy day today. Most of it was caused by how yesterday's events played out. I had gotten a KDE mailing list eMail forwarded to me at work, written by an attendee from their kamp to Gnome Summit. It was thoroughly negative. I mentioned it in the Gnome IRC channel and people didn't know what I was talking about, so I let people in on what was in it. Only later did I discover that it was from a very private KDE mailing list, without public subscriptions or archives. This morning I was "approached" by one of the KDE people demanding I tell them who leaked the information or have that person mail them an apology. That obviously placed me in a very tough situation, given the company structure. The eMail does not even contain any sensitive information, just a misguided summary of the events plus a few comments.

I acted in anger yesterday; anger that the guy I was talking to over beer and who seemed to be content with the Summit could write such things. This anger overcame my normally careful judgment to check the source of the eMail. This entire business left me a little shaky. I am upset.

Later I got my first pay cheque. I wish I had a third-person recording of my expression. My eyes must have widened beyond their normal limits when I read the line "Tax: 480.91". Yikes! I'm not used to seeing that kind of number there!

In more positive news, I got full Gnome Bugzilla access yesterday. This lets me close, reassign, and do everything else with bugs. I immediately set out to close bugs in f-spot and Muine. I'm also motivated to write patches to fix several bugs I've noticed.