Alright, folks, the bearding has commenced.
Now's your chance to make a pledge for the Carolina Hurricanes Kids 'n' Community Foundation. Just hit the "Pledge a Friend" button, and put in "Benjamin Reed".
If you know me, you know my dedication to never exposing my unfortunate double-chin to the horrors of sunlight. Don't let this sacrifice be in vain! Pledge now!
In the '05-'06 Stanley Cup run, I grew a pretty substantial playoff beard, just for the heck of it. (see fig. 1, pictured right)
This time, the Hurricanes are doing a great charity event for the Kids 'N Community Foundation: the Beard-A-Thon!
When the regular season games are over, I'm going to shave, and then grow a playoff beard as hard as I can.
Now, as I mentioned, it's a charity event, and I need you folks to help me out, by pledging at the Beard-A-Thon page. Don't forget to enter "Benjamin Reed" where it says, " There's a specific beard grower I'd like to support."
I've just committed all of KDE 4.2.2 to Fink Unstable.
There's still a lot of rough edges, but it's definitely at least beta quality, and a lot of apps work great. It includes a number of fixes, including updated scripts to register all of the desktop files properly with ksycocoa on post-install, case-sensitive filesystem fixes, and a number of other packaging fixes. I've also finished packaging all of the "core" KDE distribution.
I've got Amarok working in my experimental tree, I just need to do a little more testing before I can release it (It's based on a snapshot of what will become Amarok 2.1.0, since 2.0.x has some build issues on Mac OS X that are difficult to resolve). Also, the KOffice folks just put out a release candidate that I'm working on finishing up packaging on. Hopefully I will have that out soon.
As always, please let me know if you run into issues. I've test-built on 10.5/i386 and 10.4/ppc so I'm sure some 10.4/i386 and 10.5/ppc users will give bug reports soon. ;)
