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I just updated wordpress on this blog to 2.0.1 (2.0.2 was giving me problems). I also approved a bunch of comments that seemed to be genuine. There were over 200 comments in the moderation queue, so if I deleted your comment as spam, I’m sorry, but I really didn’t feel like spending more than a few minutes on it.

I also installed Spam Karma 2 to help with the spam problem, so the comment moderation queue shouldn’t need to be checked, and comments that are good should appear immediately.

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No, not the memory footprint of Xfce. My ecological footprint according to this site.

    CATEGORY / GLOBAL HECTARES
    FOOD  / 1.5
    MOBILITY / 1.7
    SHELTER / 1.7
    GOODS/SERVICES / 2.7
    TOTAL FOOTPRINT / 7.6

Not too bad, you would say, considering Brian got 24, but…

    IN COMPARISON, THE AVERAGE ECOLOGICAL FOOTPRINT IN YOUR COUNTRY IS 4.8 GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON.

I don’t know where they got this figure, but I have a very hard time believing that. I have a small car, a small house, produce little waste and usually don’t fly. That should be below average, except maybe for the 130km a day I have to drive, so let’s say average, not 1.5 times higer.

    WORLDWIDE, THERE EXIST 1.8 BIOLOGICALLY PRODUCTIVE GLOBAL HECTARES PER PERSON. 

    IF EVERYONE LIVED LIKE YOU, WE WOULD NEED 4.2 PLANETS.

Oops ;-)

Brian, I thought the way to make sure you get up when the alarm goes of is to put the alarm clock somewhere you can’t reach from your bed ;-)

First I have to say that Xfce upstream rocks. Benny is quick and responsive to bugs and requests, even though there's so much on his plate from Thunar alone. I asked for a small feature, and it was added in a very short time.

Xfce 4.4 and Thunar are shaping up to be an even better, speedy desktop environment. This is the most impressive release yet.

And on the Gentoo side of things, dostrow pushed out an excellent set of 4.4-beta ebuilds to package.mask within a couple of days of upstream's release. Thunar et al. are a joy to use.

Thanks for all your hard work!