Author Archives: xkahn

Hello Planet!

So I’ve recently been added to the Planet blog aggregator.  Yay!  This blog is still pretty young, but you can read about a proposal I made to change the Evolution composer.

Fixing the Evolution Composer

Back when I worked for Ximian a common complaint we heard was that Evolution wasn’t good for sending formatted text because it always word wrapped it causing lots of errors.  This was pretty frustrating because it wasn’t true, but since we heard it all the time, it was obviously too confusing.  Here’s the dialog.  Can… Read More »

FiOS and High Definition Television

For more than a year now, I’ve had a small High Definition Television, but for many reasons (okay mostly cheapness) only been able to use it to display standard cable. Well, that changed a few days ago when Verizon FiOS TV became available in my area. We got it just before the rate hike in… Read More »