This January, God willing and KDE E.V. paying, I'll be in Jamaica for the 1st (hopefully) annual Camp KDE conference. Camp KDE spun out of the KDE 4.0 release event which took place in Mountain View, Cali at Google's place. Legend has it the organizers of the event realized that there were a lot of people who weren't going to the akademies in Europe because they a) couldn't afford it b) had other engangements at that time. I can relate to both points as I was always either in school whenever they had akademy (scheduled too close to end of semester/exam season) or couldn't afford to go.

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.

There are things. Things I believe I should not have to know. Things I wish I did not know. And then there are other things, things which, whether I want to know them or not, are so pertinent to the issues at hand that it would be fatal to not know them. This is one of those things. This too.