I stepped out for a toilet break and next thing I know, I had been kidnapped by the XMMS people! In chains, they dragged me to their secret hideout. At first they made me wear a princess Leia golden bikini while standing on a table and dancing the funky-chicken. They say you can find the pictures out on the web somewhere. My girlfriend says she's not sure she likes the look.
Once they had become bored by my gyrations (I'd gotten pretty good after 12 hours without food or water), I was locked in a 4 foot cubic steel safe. There was a hole at the top and they would spend most of their time shouting at me, asking me how amaroK had come out of nowhere and was now threatening their monopoly of the *nix music-player market. Knowing what was best for me, I kept quiet and silently played that the amaroK-crew would find me and rescue me, somehow. Throughout my dark, uncomfortable trial, I kept hold of that one thought.
There must have been a window in the room I was encased in, because at roughly mid-afternoon everyday a narrow beam of light would shine down into my cramped cell. I could just about twist my head enough to gaze longingly at its magnificent splendor. A narrow beam of light to bring me hope. Well I say that now, but at the time it was actually a royal-PITA as the glare was quite blinding and gave me regular headaches.
Yesterday, as I was eating my evening meal of dogfood and cigarette ash, I heard an almighty bang, folowed by the sound of debris scattering everywhere. For a few drawn-out seconds there was no sound, then shouting filled the midst. They had come for me and I was saved!
Well so I thought. Actually the XMMS people were playing a game of Half Life 2, and they'd just turned up the volume at that particular moment. But it turned out OK, as the next day I was released. They muttered something about their mothers saying they couldn't play with me anymore, or something.
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Actually I moved house and then in the two weeks I didn't have Internet, my email account filled up with so much mail that my email provider's mail servers choked when I tried to download any (donhost are ridiculously rubbish). Also in that time I'd had a birthday and was bought World of Warcraft. So without regular mailing list contact and with a game that ruthlessly steals your life away from under your mouse-hand, I slipped away from Linux, KDE and amaroK.
But then I got some web-development work and rediscovered KDE, so now I suppose I'll be "back". I'm going to akademy and would like to do some amaroK stuff again. I also released
Codeine 1.0-rc1 which is my simple, usable (IMO at least) video player. I'll prolly blog on that soon.
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People tell me they were worried about me. I don't want to look gun-ho about my absence with the above post, so I want to reiterate here that I'm really sorry I made no contact. I never meant to cause concern.
