Raymond Penners

Workrave 1.8.5 released

Sat, 29 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0200

Task manager is never blocked by Workrave, workaround for focus loss on Vista, Vanja Cvelbar translated Workrave into Slovenian, fixed breaks that have 'suspend timer when inactive' disabled, improved Windows responsiveness under high load, mode menu fixed, Gnome applet no longer 'hangs', Gnome applet no longer crashes Workrave, fixed crashes during startup on Windows, fixed 'end-of-microbreak' sound, fixed bug in multi-head support where Workrave showed multiple windows on a single screen, fixed locking on Gnome with xscreensaver installed. Many thanks to Ray Satiro for his contributions in this release.

Launched Festisite's Personalized Money Generator

Fri, 13 Apr 2007 00:00:00 +0200

I launched another gimmick, fun for use on your blog or for handing out: Festisite's Personalized Money Generator. Go ahead, and slap your own photograph on a dollar bill... other than that, festisite.com more or less restructures several poem related web pages from dotsphinx.com.

Workrave 1.8.4 released

Sun, 04 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0100

This version contains many new translations: Italian (Eraldo Girardi), Chinese (Tao Wei), Slovak (Peter Tuharsky), Greek (Prokopis Prokopidis), Turkish (Enver Altin), Japanese (Masanobu Yokota), Bulgarian (Ivan Dimov), Hungarian (Ory Mate). Furthermore, more polish on the applets was done (e.g. vertical applet support), and the usual bug fixing.

MapMSG extension: Crop circles

Sat, 03 Mar 2007 00:00:00 +0100

Today I added an extension to the MapMSG.com site. Next to smoke signals, you can now also craft your own crop circles...

MapMSG unleashed

Fri, 02 Feb 2007 00:00:00 +0100

I released a new site...

Signalling using land marks is an ancient form of communication. Compare this to e-mail, hardly available for half a century and already collapsing by spam.Forget about boring e-cards with flashy animations. Instead, send a unique satellite-visible message, originating from your own house...

Enter: MapMSG.com

Greek leaflet and upcoming translation

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0100

The leaflet is now also available in Greek. Furthermore, the next version will also feature a complete Greek translation of Workrave. Thanks, Prokopis Prokopidis.

Workrave branded for Chiropraktik Hirschengraben

Wed, 20 Dec 2006 00:00:00 +0100

A branded version of Workrave is now available, on request of Chiropraktik Hirschengraben. This version features (next to branding): exercise images using real photography, audible (spoken) exercises, and preconfigured fixed settings. The branded version was created by IntenCT, a company started by Raymond Penners. In compliance to the GPL, all modifications are available in our source archive as well.

UFO in Eindhoven?

Mon, 20 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0100

I discovered the following unknown (flying?) object near my place. Check it out in Googe maps for your self.

Turkish leaflet and upcoming translation

Tue, 05 Sep 2006 00:00:00 +0200

The leaflet is now also available in Turkish. Furthermore, the next version will also feature a complete Turkish translation of Workrave. Thanks, Enver Altin.

Japanese leaflet and upcoming translation

Mon, 17 Jul 2006 00:00:00 +0200

The leaflet is now also available in Japanese. Furthermore, the next version will also feature a complete Japanese translation of Workrave. Thanks, Masanobu Yokota.

Swedish and Brazilian-Portugese leaflet

Sun, 25 Jun 2006 00:00:00 +0200

The leaflet is now also available in Swedish and Brazilian Portugese, thanks to Daniel Nylander and Eber do Carmo.

Workrave 1.8.3 released

Sat, 13 May 2006 00:00:00 +0200

New Swedish and Catalan translations, updates to Czech translation. Workrave no longer consumes 100% CPU is if a break is started while the screen is locked. Fixed a bug that could cause breaks to stop running when 'Suspend timer while inactive' was disabled. Added support for storing configuration in a .ini file, and for configuring the data storage directory (this can be used to run Workrave from a memory stick). GNOME screen saver support added. The applet popup menu is now accessible when all timers hidden.

Bean Bag Strikes Back!

Sat, 04 Mar 2006 00:00:00 +0100

I have been toying with this idea of a bean bag juggling humans instead of the other way around for a couple of years now. It occured to me ever since a friend of mine asked me if I would draw a logo for a juggling convention, which I declined due to lack of both time and inspiration. After the opportunity passed by, this idea popped us. I finally got around towards actually realizing it, but then in the form of a screen saver / animation: Bean Bag Strikes Back!.

Workrave 1.8.2 released

Sat, 28 Jan 2006 00:00:00 +0100

Version 1.8.2 mainly contains bug fixes: fixed a crash when using a third party gtk+ runtime, fixed a bug that caused status windows to be disabled when the micro-break timer was hidden, translation fixes and better hibernate/standby support on Unix.

Italian leaflet

Tue, 11 Oct 2005 00:00:00 +0200

We now have a Italian leaflet available, thanks to Giulio Sorrentino.

Workrave 1.8.1 released

Sun, 31 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0200

A bug sneaked into version 1.8.0 that would make Workrave crash when the blocking mode was set to none. Version 1.8.1 contains a fix for this bug.

Workrave 1.8.0 released

Fri, 01 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0200

Finally, at long last, 1.8.0 has arrived. Long overdue, but still within the one year period since the last release: Workrave now gives additional feedback when becoming active during a break by flashing the break window border, the current mode is visualized in the system tray icon, a "Restbreak now" button was added, improved KDE support (native KDE applet and KDE sound events), added decent tooltips for Workrave system tray icon, and lots of new translations (Basque, Lithuanian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Czech, Hebrew).

French leaflet

Tue, 10 May 2005 00:00:00 +0200

We now have a French leaflet available, thanks to Pierre-Henri Trivier.

Planetoids

Sat, 23 Apr 2005 00:00:00 +0200

Here's a screenshot of something I always wanted to do: wrap the dotSphinx statue around a sphere.

Sun, 13 Feb 2005 00:00:00 +0100

The hiker was in the hands of Justintime, who was kind enough to send me a picture!. Apparently, dotSphinx is in great condition and is on his way west. He dropped him in Big T' Travelers Inn (Version 2.0) cache to begin his journey westerly in the direction of the big state of CA.

Log Date: 2/13/2005
Dropped dotSphinx Hitchhiker into Big T' Travelers Inn cache- good place for ongoing TB and hitchhikers of this sort to travel westerly!! Hopefully dotSphinx can hitch a ride and move on into the big geocaching world where he belongs... Let the Force be with You,dotSphinx!

Log Date: 2/5/2005
Found this hitchhiker in How I Wish You Were Here cache in the Freeman lake area. Had never heard of such of thing before... Pretty Cool. He's as chipper and flexible as ever and ready to be a hitchhiking along again very quickly.

Taytuh the Mastiff meets dotSphinx

Mon, 20 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0100

Finally I received a really nice picture of dotSphinx. Thanks, Baruba Juba! The little pupplet has arrived in Kentucky. Unfortunately, it somehow lost its backpack and also the card is no longer directly attached. Let's hope the card and the hiker will not get separated.

Baruba Juba posted a note for dotSphinx (Hitchhiker) (Unknown Cache) at 12/20/2004

Log Date: 12/20/2004
Placed dotSphinx (Hitchhiker) in the How I Wish You Were Here Cache in Elizabethtown, Ky. It is in the Freeman Lake Park area. Hopefully somebody will pick it up and get it moving along!!

Best Wishes dotSphinx!!

Baruba Juba

Saint Nicholas

Sun, 05 Dec 2004 00:00:00 +0100

My site was taken off-line due to the enormous amounts of traffic flooding in because of Saint Nicholas. It was taken offline December 2nd. I cannot really blame my provider (IPowerWeb), in fact, I am quite pleased that the site could withstand all the traffic with their simple virtual server service. Some statistics:

Google AdSense counted 305895 page impressions on December 1st.
NedStat reported the following statistics:

Cruising through South Carolina

Sat, 13 Nov 2004 00:00:00 +0100

My Hitchhiker is still sound and safe in South Carolina:

Baruba Juba found dotSphinx (Hitchhiker) (Unknown Cache) at 11/13/2004

Log Date: 11/13/2004
I picked him up at the SCGA meeting in Anderson, SC. I don't know who brought him to the event...but I am logging him in. I will be going to Kentucky, USA in December (a month from now) I will take him there to a cache to move him Westward toward California!

... and before that:

Sissy-n-CR posted a note for dotSphinx (Hitchhiker) (Unknown Cache) at 10/3/2004

Log Date: 10/3/2004
My son, Mackerell, left Dotspinx at my house. Today, CR and I moved him to the Travel Bug Rest Area Cache (GCBCE6) in Walterboro, SC. Still no pics-sorry. This cache is visited often by travelling cachers, so I am sure he will get a ride somewhere interesting. Good Luck Dotspinx,

Sissy

Photographs, anyone?

Fri, 01 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0200

At Semptember 4th, the hiker was dropped in GCK0BW, Goose Creek (South Carolina). September 30th, he was retrieved again. Still no photographs though, sniff...

Log Date: 9/30/2004
Retreaved from "Don't Ruin My Guarden" GCK0BW. Will move him along shortly.

Log Date: 9/4/2004
Left Dotsphinx in 'Don't ruin my Garden' GCK0BW in Goose Creek, SC.

GTK-Wimp integrated into GTK+

Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:31:00 +0200

GTK-Wimp has been integrated into GTK+. As part of the integration, it has been renamed to "MS-Windows Engine". If the need arises, it is still possible to release a GTK-Wimp version separately from GTK+. However, the goal is to play nice with the GTK+ release cycle. Details:

The trigger to the integration was GTK+ bug 109615
The CVS archive at SourceForge is now officialy obsolete.
The new location is gtk+/modules/engines/ms-windows/ over at GNOME CVS.
Please use GNOME's bugzilla from now on to report problems and patches.

Still alive and kicking

Wed, 25 Aug 2004 00:00:00 +0200

It's been a while since I heard something from the hiker, but finally some positive news came in. He is currently located in Summerville, SC:

Location: Netherlands
Sissy-n-CR found dotSphinx (Hitchhiker) (Unknown (Mystery) Cache) at 8/22/2004

Log Date: 8/22/2004
Picked him up yesterday in School of Fish Cache. I do not have access to a digital camera at this time. He is currently at my home in Summerville, SC. We will try to get him westward bound.

Sissy

GTK-Wimp 0.6.2 released

Mon, 23 Aug 2004 23:07:00 +0200

Superfluous scrollbars (scrollbars whose page length is greater than the maximum range) are now drawn disabled. Proper gripper drawing for handle boxes/toolbars. HandleBoxes and Toolbars are etched-in now.

Workrave 1.6.2 released

Tue, 13 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0200

This minor update adds a Brazilian Portuguese translation, thanks to Claudio Ferreira Filho! Furthermore, it includes the usual bug fixing...

GTK-Wimp 0.6.1 released

Fri, 02 Jul 2004 00:35:00 +0200

Disabled icons in buttons by default, lowered GTK+ requirements (2.0.x will do fine), disable application theming when instructed by XP, and fixed toolbar problems exposed by Inkscape.

Land in sight!

Sun, 27 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0200

The Hitchhiker has arrived in the United States, great! He appears to be somewhere in North Carolina, somewhere near the Shearon Harris reservoir. Unfortunately, nobody so far has sent any digital photographs, which is a bit of a shame. Here is the log entry:

"I found dotSphinx yesterday in the cache "rad, aka glow in the dark" (GCJJ4P) at the Summer Fun event (GCJG8X). I'll be moving dotSphinx on soon. Thanks!"

Florida, here I come!

Wed, 09 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0200

The hiker has been picked up by Dekromme and is now preparing for its flight to the USA, great!

"Zoals reeds aangeboden , en afgesproken, Dotsphinx Hitchhiker opgehaald om de grote reis over de ocean te beginnen. Zullen hier voor een mooi plekje in florida voor zoeken."

Reboot and retry

Sun, 06 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0200

The hiker is back where it started: it is at the Travellers on Holiday hotel again. I noticed that Dekromme was going to visit this cache before going on holiday to the USA, and mailed Team Aragorn to see if they could pick him up. So they did, thanks, Team Aragorn!

"DotSphinx wants to go to America. Its owner asked us to drop it in 'Travellers on Holiday' because a lift had already been arranged from there to Florida. We wish you a nice trip, DS!"

GTK-Wimp 0.6.0 released

Fri, 21 May 2004 23:42:00 +0200

Dom Lachowicz improved XP theme switching for GTK+ 2.4 and tweaked the icon sizes to match Windows, John Ehresman fixed a memory leak. Yours truly (Raymond Penners) did nothing, except for packaging and releasing.

Workrave 1.6.1 released

Thu, 13 May 2004 00:00:00 +0200

A bug was introduced in version 1.6.0 which could cause the status window to disappear. Version 1.6.1 is only a minor bug fix release that addresses this problem.

Lord of the Rings?

Sat, 08 May 2004 00:00:00 +0200

Team Aragorn came by and transported the hiker from Belgium to the Netherlands again.

"Omdat er een hitchhiker gesignaleerd was in deze cache, hebben we die vandaag ook nog even bezocht. We hebben hitchhiker 'Dotsphinx' geruild tegen travelbug 'Cachedorados Calculado'."

Belgium, here we come!

Fri, 02 Apr 2004 20:55:00 +0200

The hiker has left the Netherlands! Ronpeer was so kind to place him just over the border in the Kattenboscache.

Workrave 1.6.0 released

Fri, 30 Apr 2004 00:00:00 +0200

The Windows version of Workrave now includes a taskbar applet version of the status window. Timers can be configured to ignore activity. Improved full-screen "Block all" mode. Chinese, Russian and French translations have been added.

Hitchhiker dotSphinx re-launched!

Sun, 25 Apr 2004 20:15:00 +0200

Today I finally got to re-launch my Hitchhiker. Until today, I just could not find the time to set the hiker free again, after we returned it home from the Travellers on Holiday. We dropped him off at Eindhoven's Kwartet Noord-Oost. This cache is very frequently visited, so there is a very high probability that it will make its next move within one or two weeks..

GTK-Wimp 0.5.4 released

Thu, 11 Mar 2004 21:47:00 +0100

Minor update, just before GTK+ 2.4 is to be released: Asian fonts are now properly dealt with.

Hitchhiker dotSphinx brought home

Sat, 28 Feb 2004 13:25:00 +0100

It turns out that the Travellers on Holiday cache hardly gets any visits. And, history shows that it takes quite a while for travellers to actually get out of the cache. This (and the fact that I wanted to show the hitchhiker to my brother who happened to be in the Netherlands for his job) made me decide to return the hitchhiker home.

By the way, on the way home, my one year old son pulled the little chain too hard, and the teared the card. I fixed this by reconnecting the card on its left side.

Windows applet in the works

Tue, 03 Feb 2004 21:58:00 +0100

Started working on a version of the status window that can be embedded in your Windows taskbar. GNU/Linux users have had the privilege to enjoy this feature for quite some time now, but it is finally coming to the Windows world. Here's a snapshot:

GTK-Wimp 0.5.3 released

Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:44:00 +0100

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

Sun, 25 Jan 2004 16:45:00 +0100

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

Sat, 17 Jan 2004 12:23:00 +0100

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

Sun, 04 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0100

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

Fri, 02 Jan 2004 23:04:00 +0100

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...

Slashdotted by Saint Nicholas

Sun, 07 Dec 2003 18:50:00 +0100

This is the first year my site survived the Saint Nicholas festivities. All records were scattered, with a peak 247.212 visitors per day on december 5th. I am extremely pleased with the performance of my provider: ipowerweb. The past years with HostRocket were really troublesome, as they unplugged my site at only +/- 90.000 visitors per day already.

GTK-Wimp 0.5.2 released

Wed, 19 Nov 2003 23:06:00 +0100

Pressed toolbar steppers get drawn ETCHED_IN now. Menubars now have their shadow set to NONE, which is generally more consistent. Setup menu and toolbar icon sizes to Windows defaults. Non-standard color schemes, for example "Brick", are handled properly now. XP scrollbar grippers are no longer displayed when they do not fit on the scrollbar.

Workrave 1.4.1 released

Tue, 04 Nov 2003 00:00:00 +0100

The most notable changes in this release are: added a new option "Block mode" ranging from no blocking (break windows can be freely dragged around) to full input and screen blocking, added multihead support for Windows, improved suspend (to ram) support, added "Shut down" and "Lock" buttons to the break windows. Furthermore, the stability on Windows improved considerably now that several longstanding issues have been resolved.

GTK-Wimp 0.5.1 released

Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:12:00 +0200

XP scrollbars now have grippers and should be indistinguishable from native scrollbars. Furthermore, menu items and menu separators are themed, as well as status bar resize grips. New for developers is the fact that GTK-Wimp now compiles with MinGW.

GTK-Wimp 0.5.1 released

Thu, 23 Oct 2003 20:12:00 +0200

GTK-Wimp 0.5.0 released

Wed, 08 Oct 2003 21:35:00 +0200

This release marks the end of the unstable 0.4.x series. Several major bugs have been fixed, including memory leaks. The rendering speed has been greatly improved.

Added intelligent RSS feed support

Tue, 07 Oct 2003 00:00:00 +0200

I am trying to streamline my blogging, and took some initial steps to achieve single source blogging. This renders my Advogato diary obsolete, but I never actually bothered to maintain that one anyway. My blog can be syndicated in the following ways:

http://www.dotsphinx.com/blog/rss.xml: standard syndication, fetches all.
http://www.dotsphinx.com/blog/rss.xml?section=wimp: for all GTK-Wimp related blogging.
http://www.dotsphinx.com/blog/rss.xml?section=workrave&language=nl: for all Workrave blog postings made in Dutch.

What remains to be done is to aggregate the relevant bloggings on the GTK-Wimp and Workrave sites...

GTK-Wimp 0.4.3 released

Sun, 21 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0200

The Gaim buddy icons were still not drawn correctly, even with 0.4.2. This time, I tested the problem more thoroughly and now I really fixed the problem. So, 0.4.3 should be the best release so far. Hopefully, it gets included as default into the GTK Windows installer.

GTK-Wimp 0.4.2 released

Thu, 18 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Another emergency update. Some changes in 0.4.1 had an unforeseen impact and were backed out. The trouble was that buddy icons disappeared in Gaim.

GTK-Wimp 0.4.1 released

Mon, 15 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0200

This is a minor update to iron out some bugs. Particularly, obscure console messages caused by the previous version have been fixed. It also includes a few new tweaks: tree expanders look a bit better in the non-XP case now, and the cursor blink time has been adjusted to follow the Windows setting.

GTK-Wimp 0.4.0 released

Thu, 11 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Dom Lachowicz joined in and did most changes for 0.4.0. Most important changes: enable proper fonts/sizes for menus, status bars. Handle boxes/panes now do XP style REBAR theming. Toolbars should draw the REBAR part properly. Menubars and toolbars now are etched-in to mimic Windows' behavior. Furthermore, scrollbar sizes, radio/check button sizes, paned sizes tooltip color/font, font preferences including bold or italic are now all properly adhered to. Thanks, Dom!

Nightly builds

Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0200

We have set up a nightly build system. Currently, it builds a Debian package, source tarball, and a Windows installer version. Interesting to note is that the Windows version is completely built on a GNU/Linux system, using a cross-compiler and Wine to create the final setup.exe.

German leaflet

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0200

We now have a German leaflet available, thanks to Johannes Rohr.

Patents endangering Open Source Software development

Thu, 04 Sep 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Soon the European Commission is going to vote a revised version of the European Patentability rules. The proposed revision contains a set of serious challenges to Open Source development since regulation regarding software patents will be broadly extended and might forbid independent development of innovative (Open Source and not) software-based solutions. For further information please see http://swpat.ffii.org and http://petition.eurolinux.org. Please show your support there.

GTK-Wimp 0.3.0 released

Tue, 26 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0200

GTK-Wimp 0.3.0 released. Now tooltips and progress bars nicely adhere to the system colors as well. There was a mixup in drawing the proper checkbox state, fixed. Disabled the colored, alternating rules for GtkTreeViews to match the Windows behaviour. The open/close tree expander symbols were accidentally switched, fixed. The menu background color now follows XP's color scheme.

Workrave 1.4.0 released

Sun, 24 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Finally, Workrave 1.4.0 is out. The most interesting changes in this version include: exercises, new translations (Polish, Danish and Spanish), multi-head support, support for disabling breaks, the content of the status window has been made configurable, improved (flickerfree) blocking mechanism on Windows.

GTK-Wimp 0.2.0 released

Thu, 07 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0200

GTK-Wimp 0.2.0 released. Added XP theming support for progress bars, list headers, entry widgets, radio buttons, option menus and tree expanders. Tabs not located on top of the notebook were not rendered properly using XP theming. Added fallback to non-XP theming behaviour if the tabs are not located on top. This will have to do for now, expect better notebook support in the next release.

Wednesday, August 6, 2003

Wed, 06 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Due to other priorities the work on GTK-Wimp got neglected. It has been far too long since the last release. Fortunately, I picked up where I left on March. I am now in the process of putting together a new release. Please hold your breath a bit longer, but I promise that it really won't be that long...

Spanish leaflet

Mon, 04 Aug 2003 00:00:00 +0200

We now have a Spanish leaflet available, thanks to Pablo Rodriguez.

Sunday, July 20, 2003

Sun, 20 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0200

More progress on Miss Workrave. I have added armatures (bones), so I can now position her in any anatomically incorrect position :) Also new is an office chair, which still needs some nice colors though...:

Tuesday, July 15, 2003

Tue, 15 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Here you can see the logo that never was. I made an attempt at a logo for the upcoming OOTI symposium, but it was not elected. The logo had to express the future of massive parallel computing...

Tuesday, July 8, 2003

Tue, 08 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0200

I spent the last few nights moving the site over to my new provider. The site is finally 100% up and running again. So now I can continue to work on Miss Workrave. I am currently focusing on her face, here's a first snapshot:

Tuesday, July 1, 2003

Tue, 01 Jul 2003 00:00:00 +0200

The web site has been out of the air for a few days, visitors were presented the following:

I am really fed up with my hosting company, HostRocket. They claim the site was getting 30 visitors per second, and they told me to move to a (semi)dedicated server. They would not provide me with any information on where the hits were coming from. Normally, the site receives +/- 500 visits a day. As I don't earn any money with the site I cannot afford a dedicated server. Anyway, it should really not be necessary given the amount of hits I usually receive. The service at HostRocket is blunt, to say the least. This was not the only incident I had with HostRocket, but it was the last drop. So, I moved to ipowerweb.com.

Newsflash

Wed, 25 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0200

It has been a bit too quiet on the Workrave front lately, so I thought it would be nice to inform you about what's cooking. Initially, we were planning on releasing version 1.4.0, with exercises being the most interesting new feature addition. However, a lot of time went into 3D modeling of 'Miss Workrave', who is supposed to instruct you on how to do your exercises. In fact, a lot of time is still going into that as I speak right now. Therefore, it is most likely that we'll release an intermediate 1.2.3 in the near future. You'll have to be a bit more patient for the exercises, but here's a sneak preview of how "Miss Workrave" is going to look...

Tuesday, June 24, 2003

Tue, 24 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Completed "Eindhovens kwartet" by finding the last of the 4 caches. "12 steden, 13 ongemakken", here we come...

Monday, June 23, 2003

Mon, 23 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0200

I finally added a blog section to my site. Not very original, everyone else has one. What finally drove me to do it was the fact that I like the idea of being able to look back and see what I was up to at that point in time. I used an old news file to generate a bit of content for the past few years. Hopefully, I can find the time and discipline to maintain this blog...

Sunday, June 22, 2003

Sun, 22 Jun 2003 00:00:00 +0200

Went Geocaching and found GCBB13. Only one more to complete the "Eindhovens kwartet".

Workrave 1.2.2 released

Tue, 25 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0100

The Window version now has a native look and feel, so Workrave no longer looks like a second grade application when running on Windows. Furthermore, support for Gnome session management was improved: Workrave is now properly restarted by the Gnome session manager. Finally, the overall user interface has improved, addressing most HIG issues.

GTK-Wimp 0.1.0 released

Tue, 18 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0100

So, here you have it. GTK-Wimp 0.1.0, the first release.

Workrave 1.2.0 released

Sun, 09 Mar 2003 00:00:00 +0100

The most important new features in this version are statistics and Gnome/KDE applet support. Workrave now keeps track of all your activity and allows you to browse through any date in history to see for how long you used the computer, how many keys you pressed, the distance your mouse moved, and many other statistical data. Furthermore, when running Workrave on Gnome or KDE, the break information can be displayed itself in the panel.

Help spread the word!

Mon, 10 Feb 2003 00:00:00 +0100

We have put together a leaflet for you to use to help spread the word.

Saturday, December 14, 2002

Sat, 14 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +0100

Internal redesign of the site. The site now makes full use of the latest CSS technology, and no longer relies on HTML tables to do fancy layouting. I invite you to have a look at the HTML source of this page.

Wednesday, December 4, 2002

Wed, 04 Dec 2002 00:00:00 +0100

My provider closed down the site because it generated too much traffic. This year it reached approximately 70000 visitors per day before being shut down. The number is slightly down from last year where it got 92550 visitors in one day before being shut down. Currently, moving to a dedicated server is not (financially) feasible. It would be if the site received that much traffic during the whole year, and not just on Saint Nicholas day.

Workrave shop opened

Fri, 29 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0100

We opened an online Workrave shop: buy original Workrave items (T-shirts, mugs, caps, ...) to sponsor the Workrave project.

Workrave 1.0.0 released

Thu, 31 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0100

After extensive testing we finally present our first production release. Version 1.0.0 is rock solid and ready for daily usage at the office. New in this release is a Dutch translation, and the daily limit window is fully operational now.

Workrave 0.3.0 released

Fri, 11 Oct 2002 00:00:00 +0200

Added sound support. For office PCs that do not have a sound card, you can choose to play sounds through the internal PC speaker. Also new, but still experimental, is distribution support, dubbed "The Collective". You can now create a network of Workrave instances running on several computers. All instances that are part of the collective share the same timer information, meaning that if one computer informs you to take a break, it is futile to flee to another computer as it will also tell you to take a break. Furthermore, some nasty crashes in the Windows version were fixed.

Workrave 0.2.0 released

Thu, 26 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +0200

Released soon after 0.1.0. Lots of bugs have been fixed, and the Windows version now has support for the system tray.

Workrave 0.1.0 released

Sun, 22 Sep 2002 00:00:00 +0200

This is the first public release. Please note that Workrave is still undergoing heavy development. Having said that, the current development versions are already quite usable.

Tuesday, July 16, 2002

Tue, 16 Jul 2002 00:00:00 +0200

Redesigned the site. If you're feeling nostalgic, have a look at the designs from earlier times: 1995-1997, 1997-1999, or the year 1999-2001.

Monday, May 27, 2002

Mon, 27 May 2002 00:00:00 +0200

Launched Light-a-Candle.

Friday, April 5, 2002

Fri, 05 Apr 2002 00:00:00 +0200

Added Gimp photo stack

Tuesday, December 4, 2001

Tue, 04 Dec 2001 00:00:00 +0100

The Saint Nicholas section broke all records: 92550 page views in one day.