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?