How not to obtain a copy of Hackers or Firewall in Birmingham at 10pm:

• Consult the Tesco website, find the nearest one on a map.
• Go down the wrong street, end up quite a long way past the Tesco, which, incidentally, is basically right next to your hotel.
• Ask at a service station where the nearest Tesco is.
• Traipse for miles down a dual carriageway.
• Get to a train station you don't recognise, realise that there's no roundabout on this road (the directions including 'turn right at the roundabout'), realise you can just take this road and go back home in defeat.
• Stop at every service station and newsagent along the way.
• Receive advice that the Costcutters (which is next to your hotel, and definitely doesn't sell DVDs) will definitely sell DVDs.
• Go to the convenience store right across the road from your hotel (and very close to the Tesco), get told that the Tesco's right near Five Ways will sell it. Realise that Five Ways was the name of the train station you saw earlier. Kick self.
• Try the offlicence you walked past right as you left the hotel again, realise that they do in fact rent DVDs, but are hidden. Offer boatloads of money for Firewall. Get knocked back. Attempt to sign up. Must be a UK resident (not me), and must be carrying bills with your home address (not mjg59). Further attempts at cutting a deal foiled by the shop attendant's inability to speak anything more than very basic English.
• Go back to your room, wet, tired, and thoroughly defeated.

Just under a week after XDS was announced, we've already got 38 (out of 40!) attendees registered. 40 is our current cap, and we need to change it soon if we're going to break that number, so please, ensure you're registered if you're planning to come. If there's too many people, registering now won't bump other people off, it'll just mean that we know we can increase the size a bit. :)

Our accommodation is in 'single sets': a study with adjoining bedroom (single bed), and en suite (so, your own shower and toilet). For the moment, registration is everyone who's signed up on the attendees page, and hasn't told us that they're not staying in the college. Please do not contact Clare College and book the rooms yourself: we have a big group booking.

Wireless will be available in the main conference room, as well as in the bedrooms, and a common area.

So: if you're thinking of coming, register!

Update: We're now at 38 people, not 25. Two spots left.

After a bit of a delay in the announcement, I'm proud to finally unveil the X Developers' Summit 2007. September 10th-12th, at Clare College in wonderful Cambridge, UK (not the one near Boston). We'll be running a sponsorship program too, so X developers, even if you don't think you can make it, just keep those days free.

More information on the wiki page. See you in Cambridge!

Does anyone know how to make gtk-doc actually work with srcdir != builddir builds? The whole 'this is too complicated to work in those situations' premise is a sheer copout, and I'm sure this has annoyed someone else before me enough to come up with a fix. (No, it won't work in absolutely every single situation ever, but c'est la vie.)

At least it's not the worst thing I've encountered today:
typedef struct generic_list_rec
{
    void *next;
}
GenericListRec, *GenericListPtr, *glp;

I'd always had the ludicrously useful Google Search Keys extension installed, but now Google's Beta Search Keys complement this incredibly well (complete with vi mode!). Can't imagine life without the extension, let alone without the new Google one ...

(Via Adam Rosi-Kessel.)