Entries from October 2007

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007

Do Gets Pidgin+Evolution Integration

I’m working on some amazing new features for GNOME Do. Currently, I have two plugins that index Evolution contacts and Pidgin buddies respectively. The cool thing is that these plugins are able to merge contact information from Evolution and Pidgin into single contacts in Do. For example, if I have a contact for “John Doe” [...]

Monday, October 15th, 2007

Defending Hobbes’s Definitions of Good and Evil from Charges of Moral Relativism and Proto-Utilitarianism

Pursuant of a psychology, a moral science, and ultimately a civil science, all grounded in a materialist worldview, Thomas Hobbes defines “good” and “evil” in terms of the individual subject’s particular appetites and aversions. These appetites and aversions correspond to pleasures and pains arising within the body in reaction to external matter in motion. Hobbes [...]

Friday, October 12th, 2007

Simple Steps Toward Healthier Computing

If you’re reading this blog, you probably use a computer for at least a couple hours a day. As a computer science and philosophy student, I spend a lot of time writing programs and even more time writing papers. I must spend at least three hours a day in front of a computer screen, and [...]

Thursday, October 4th, 2007

Make GNOME Do Slicker with Compiz Animations

As of this post, GNOME Do draws most of its windows as splash screens in order to avoid some bugs in the way focus stealing and window raising is handled. Because of this, when GNOME Do windows are brought to the front, they are drawn abruptly and a bit blandly. If you’re using Compiz Fusion [...]