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The GIMP, the world famous freely available open source image editing software (available for UNIX, Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X), is now at version 2.0 (pdf). To celebrate, the website has been updated as well.

For those of you with Mac OS X, you can easily install the GIMP just like any other Mac application (once you have Apple’s X11 installed). Check out Gimp.app.(Jimmac pointed it out on IRC.)

As posted earlier, I have been working on a Bluecurve set of OpenOffice.org icons. Today, I have uploaded what’s currently there in the work-in-progress. View the current state of the set.

This past Saturday, I went to the zoo. While visiting, I took a lot of pictures with my trusty camera (and overhead lots of people talking about my equipment — everything from "Whoah! Check out that lens!" to some communication in Spanish obviously about a camera). I also had lots of people [...]

Google Local Search is neat.
I think I’ll be using it to locate various places to eat lunch in the area instead of deciding during a delay by the parking deck.
You can also search for "wi-fi" or "802.11" and find hotspots (some are free, some are not) in a particular area. Nifty.

I posted about it about a year and a half ago and now Slashdot is finally getting around to it by asking about modernizing the save icon.
Who uses floppies nowadays? (Besides a few testing Fedora and RHEL installs from the old disks…)

Yesterday, when taking pictures (and enjoying the wonderful warm weather), I first visited the downtown area of Raleigh and later went to the arboretum to see if any plants had decided to sprout. Below, you can find the remaining two sets of photographs from this past Sunday afternoon.

snapshots of downtown Raleigh
the first signs of [...]