So the boss wants me to design some siRNAs, the uncle wants me to create an email account and do other resumé related tasks. This is while I want to figure out if I can get phonon-qt7 to load files via kioslaves. Let's not forget that I have to get utilities and insurance set up for the new apartment. Apparently I'm a miracle worker because this was sprung on me Wednesday and ideally needs to get done before Friday. Did I mention that I actually officially start work on Monday, not Friday?

So today I figured out pretteh cuncloosevlay, that the issues amarok was having with the phonon_qt7 backend were wholly amarok's fault. There endeth my involvement with that little debacle. Now we need someone with phonon_foo to come fix it. Anyone foolishly hoping I would be the one to buckle down for the summer and dive into both Amarok and Phonon APIs will be pleasantly disappointed as I have absolutely no intention of doing so. The reasons for this are two-fold: 1) I have a job now which I need to begin preparing for, and 2) I don't believe I can do it.

Narcissism, noun - subscribing to one's own rss feed.

So this morning I woke up to this post by thiago of Trolltech and KDE fame. It just so happens that I was having problems with Amarok with respect to using the QuickTime phonon backend. Amarok was crashing and no crash handler was showing up. Not the OS X one, not the KDE one. Next thing you know I'm reading my rss feed and there's the fix. How's that for service?

So I'm being a good little boy today and finishing up the coverimagizer nhnfreespirit started helping me with. Looks like I'll need to be reading a little more of my C++ books too. Today's topic: virtual functions. Today's question: Why can't they have explicitly declared destructors? I have to say, looking at other people code makes this coding thing far easier than it would be otherwise. It's also more fun than looking for apartments in Dayton. Moving sucks. Hope I can find someplace close to work though, but I'll worry about that some other day.