Planet Geek!: KDE Gripe Du Jour

So this sure doesn't make sense.

I like pushing my desktop around a bunch, seeing what it can do, what it can't do. To me this is the way good software gets made. Use it, try to do what you want to do with it, find out where it fails. The trick in this approach is avoiding the "I want it to do what {XXX} application does, and do it JUST THAT WAY!" - that will ultimately result in failure. The question you should ask is "What am I trying to accomplish, and how would I do that with this tool?"

Today's puzzlement was born of humble beginnings. I wanted to change the 'new mail' notification sound that Thunderbird uses. Simple enough, eh?

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Planet Geek!: Omgomgomogmg.

TOTAL geek squee.

Starcraft 2 is official. And it's not a huge variation from the original game - updated after, what, 8 years, naturally, but same 3 races, new vehicles and ships, new engines, all that, but it's the same game, redone.

Starcraft was one of the few games that totally sucked me in, and I still occasionally play it, years and years later.

The Wikipedia article on Starcraft II is under heavy editing right now, but the details are there.

I highly recommend watching the full cinematic trailer. It totally rocks.

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