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GTK-Wimp 0.5.3 released
Sunday, 25 January

Improved theming of sliders, improved the color of menu bars, corrected toolbar button borders, fixed problems with several of Gimp's widgets (particularly its option menus), fixed colors for the expander's +/- part when selected/insensitive.

Hitchhiker dotSphinx unleashed
Sunday, 25 January

We finally set our hitchhiker free, and dropped him off at Travellers on Holiday, a cache that collects travel bugs willing to travel internationally. I sure hope they accept hitchikers as well. Anyway, it is not your typical cache as you can tell by looking at the photo.

Let's hope the hitchhiker can make its way out of the Netherlands. Umm, let's also hope the kind people behind this cache do not take him straight to his designated destination, that would not be fun. Making it to the east side of the USA would be great, but any country other than the Netherlands would be great just as well!

UserLinux Logo
Saturday, 17 January

I bumped into the UserLinux logo candidates, and was tempted to give it my own try. I have made two versions of a logo, both are shown below. The letters 'U' and 'L' form the abstract face of a user. The logo is well-suited for B&W media. The color of the face should perhaps be changed to something more neutral, so that it does not refer to a specific skin color (how about blue?). Other suggestions, anyone?

XHTML'ification
Sunday, 04 January

I spent a lot of time migrating all pages on my site to valid XHTML 1.0. Lots of work, yet not externally visible changes, except for this emblem:

Hitchhiker dotSphinx revealed
Friday, 02 January

I have been tinkering with the idea of unleashing a Geocaching Hitchhiker to the world for quite some time now. Well, sometimes you need some new year resolutions to get the job done. So here he finally is, Hitchhiker dotSphinx! I can hardly wait to set him free...