One month so far
It’s one month already I relocated to California. It wasn’t a shock since I’ve been here many times in 2006. But this time was for good so I had to face many new things I had no idea, things like getting a Social Security Number, opening a bank account, writing checks in english (for the rent). I also don’t have a car yet so I had to figure out how to reach some places by public transportation.
I have also been to Ikea for the first time. The closer one is located in East Palo Alto which is supposed to NOT be a good neighborhood so it was nice when I jumped off too early from the bus and the Bus driver stopped by to tell me to jump in that it was the wrong stop. I met very cordial people until now. So, the Ikea stop is important in this story because there I bought a desk (as you can see, nothing fancy) and confortable chair to be able to work at home on Oxygen. It was not easy to build the desk without screwdriver and I messed things up just at step 3 :) but in the end it worked!
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Since I left my lovely 23″ Cinema Display in Italy I’m really thinkinh in getting an 24″ or something iMac. In October I really haven’t any time or energy to work on anything KDE related. Fortunately Nuno and David Miller have been doing a great work filling missing actions icons and improving the ugly ones. There’s still some work to do but I’ll concentrate on designing the applications now. Next coming are for sure Kmail and Kontact. There also some minor changes I’d like to do here and there on the folders, Konqueror icon, Dolphin and to the “new” action badge.
So stay tuned.*PS:* Yes, I read all the crap about the amazingly stupid Linux.com article. Will write something about that soon, but I had this post ready since a couple of days.
On digg.com I was impressed with the lack of information and rudeness of people when they talked about that linux.com crap..
Welcome to your new home, David. Looks like, if your laptop starts running too hot, you can crack open the freezer a bit! ;-)
Welcome! And use the power of craigslist.org to get yourself a free monitor! And probably most anything else you need.
You can probably pay in euros if you buy something from a kde local!
Hey dude! I had no idea you’re living in Cali now. We should hang out!
@ blauzahl
thanks for the tip, I’m more looking for an iMac because my is really small :) Craigslist rocks!
@ Clee
Definitely, that would be totally cool. I’m here with my girlfriend, without car, with no friends to hang out in the area.
@ Paulo Cesar
you’re totally right, people have run really wild. And many giving shit to me/oxygen/kde based on a totally lame article made by an incompetent person that use his position on a relevant online magazine to shit about projects he don’t like for some reason.
@ Louis
Yeah, and California weather can get very hot too … ;)
David Miller is doing an awesome job on the low res. Oxygen starts to look like an icon theme :)
Enjoy america, keep blogging!
@ Jakub Steiner
haha … I would like to say the same of Tango … I mean, it would start looking as an icon theme as soon as you’ll merge your Hi Res version of them ;)
I like a lot the new oxygen style, I`m sorry, I can`t write more because my english is poor, but I just wanted say this, congratulations, so, you are handsome too xD, bye
@ Carlos and all
English, Portuguese, Italian and Spanish are welcome languages :)
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