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Gwibber themes

// May 1st, 2009 // 12 Comments » // p.u.c & p.u-uk.org

I’m using gwibber for keeping up with identi.ca and twitter. I mainly use an eeepc while at home, so to get a couple more dents on screen I’ve recently been using the defaultsmall theme. This theme isn’t quite as nice to my eyes as the default theme though, it makes the background darker for one thing. I’ve patched the defaultsmall theme to use the background colours from the default theme.

Gwibber Real Default small

Kudos to the gwibber team for making this so easy to do, it’s just a case of editing some css. I think I’ve spent more time blogging about it than doing it. There’s a list of gwibber themes if you’re looking for a change or inspiration. I encourage anyone more creative than myself to create their own gwibber themes.

To use my “realdefaultsmall” theme

  1. mkdir -p ~/.local/share/gwibber/ui/themes/
  2. cd ~/.local/share/gwibber/ui/themes/
  3. wget http://www.deansas.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/05/realdefaultsmall.tar.gz
  4. tar xzf realdefaultsmall.tar.gz
  5. Start gwibber, open the preferences and choose realdefaultsmall from the theme list

Internets 1 Parliament 0

// January 21st, 2009 // 3 Comments » // General, p.u.c & p.u-uk.org

MP’s plans to make their expenses exempt from FOI requests have collapsed. It’s a humiliating U turn for the Labour party, who were planning to enforce a three line whip. The Conservatives seem to have received slightly better publicity by changing their minds about it sooner and insisting they were against the idea from the beginning. The turn around came after a largely internet-driven campaign against the plan began, and finished within a couple of days.

The MySociety blog has some interesting statistics on public participation of this campaign

MPs to conceal expenses

// January 18th, 2009 // 1 Comment » // p.u.c & p.u-uk.org

Parliament have just spent upwards of £500,000 preparing to release data on expenses claimed by MPs. The government (and the conservatives) have now decided that this data should not be available to the public, making MPs and Lords the only public officials in the country that don’t have to make this information available to the public upon request.

First the House of Commons and then the House of Lords will vote on this on Thursday, if passed it will become law nearly immediately.

Tom Steinburg of My Society (the people behind theyworkforyou.com and writetothem.com amongst others) has published this request for action

1. Please write to your MP about this www.WriteToThem.com – ask them to lobby against this concealment, and tell them that TheyWorkForYou will be permanently and prominently noting those MPs who took the opportunity to fight against this regressive move. The millions of constituents who will check this site before the next election will doutbtless be interested.

2. Join this facebook group and invite all your least political friends (plus your most political too). Send them personal mails, phone or text them. Encourage them to write to their politicians too.

3. Write to your local paper to tell them you’re angry, and ask them to ask their readers to do the above. mySociety’s never-finished site http://news.mysociety.org might be able to help you here.

Closing bugs on Launchpad

// June 17th, 2008 // No Comments » // p.u.c & p.u-uk.org

Christian, Launchpad Bugs (aka Malone) has an email interface you can use to receive and interact with bugs with which should probably satisfy your offline needs. See https://help.launchpad.net/BugTrackerEmailInterface

You can also change the status of bugs via the web ui by clicking in the ‘status’ column.

What do you have open?

// May 23rd, 2008 // 1 Comment » // p.u.c & p.u-uk.org

Like Tiago I don’t have much open in comparison to some people. I’m going to bed soon but I don’t usually have much more open than I have currently.

At home

  • Epiphany with a dozen tabs open
  • gnome-terminal running screen with three windows open, one at a bash prompt and two in vi
  • Three nautilus windows (yay for spatial nautilus
  • xchat-gnome
  • pidgin
  • Thunderbird
  • gnome-do

At work

  • gnome-terminal SSH’d to the development box with a five instances of vi in a screen session
  • A firefox window with two tabs
  • gnome-terminal SSH’d to the development box with a dozen instances of vi and the postgres client in a screen session
  • firefox with 6 tabs
  • open office
  • epiphany with two
  • thunderbird
  • gimp

I’m going to try terminator that everyone seems to be using.

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