Re: BLAM! 0.9999 "Not Only An Application"

[George Farris <george gmsys com>]

I suggest you start by telling everyone what BLAM is before you blurt
the rest of this out.

Thanks

On Wed, 2004-01-14 at 16:15, Mikael Hallendal wrote:
> Good news all Blammers!
> 
> Today is a good day for all of you, what you have been feeling the last
> couple of days is nothing to be ashamed of. Yeah I know, BLAM! is no
> longer just an Application, it's becoming a Life Style!
> 
> OK, so what has happened since last release. First of all I've figured
> out that you should probably get Sqlite >= 2.8 (I have 2.8.6), secondly
> I've made it work with GTK 2.2.
> 
> I know a lot of you have always wanted to be like James "Snorp" Willcox,
> well you know what? NOW YOU CAN!!!!, just read on and I'll tell you
> how...
> 
> First I'm going to tell you a bit about how BLAM! has changed the lives
> of some miserable creatures of the GNOME dungeons into persons with a
> bright future:
> 
> Kjartan Maraas:
> (who before BLAM took great please in maintaining really old software)
> 
> - "Blam turned my life into floating in a pink bubble of foam"
> 
> Johan Dahlin:
> (still next to homeless but at least he has gotten a haircut)
> 
> - "before BLAM! I used to be homeless and walking depressed around in
>    the streets. When I found BLAM I got a job, married and happiness
>    found a way into my life"
> 
> OK, and now to the person you have all been waiting for. How can you be
> like Snorp? Of course, it's a given answer, just install and run BLAM!
> 
> So this is what Snorp has to say about BLAM!:
> 
> - "Before BLAM!, I was like a lost sheep in the GNOME world.  But after
>    installing BLAM!, I know what everyone is doing, including the
>    super-famous Robert Love!"
> 
> WHAT!?! Does he want to be like Robert Love? This is *INCREDIBLE*
> (*BLAM!* *BLAM!*) (read that like Golum says *GOLUM* *GOLUM* in the
> movies with a different name).
> 
> So, in the end of the story we are all converging into clones of Robert
> Love. Well, all for the better I guess since he has been doing some cool
> stuff lately.
> 
> So, if anyone is really interested in the changes in this release:
> 
> * Fixed sort order for items
> * Support for images on channels
> * Nicer output
> * No longer require GTK 2.3, yeah this is one important thing!
>   (still got the spinner though, hmm .. wonder how I can make the 
>    spinner end up in all release notes)
> * Fixed a couple of crashes
> * Made it lots faster with many channels
> * Managed to bump the database format two numbers (yeah, what do you 
>   know, you care don't you?). Anyway, no need to worry, it *should* be
>   handled automatically, *har har*
> * Removed autoupdate after being banned from Slashdot :P (now I have to 
>   wait 72 hours before trying to download there feed again) *sob* 72
>   hours without filling my blam database with junk *sob*
> * Application icon by Dan Taylor, new about image, desktop file and 
>   other cool stuff to make a cool application even cooler.
> * Don't download if server says it's not updated.
> 
> Download at:
> ftp://ftp.imendio.com/pub/imendio/blam/blam-0.9999.tar.gz
> 
> Screenshot:
> http://micke.hallendal.net/archives/blam-0.1-1.html
> 
> Avast! ( a little preview? ) 
> 
> Enjoy,
>   Mikael Hallendal
-- 
George Farris <george gmsys com>