If you're attending the excellent FOSDEM (which you should), you should make sure you get down to my talk on input. We're now at the stage where we understand not only the problems, but their causes and fixes, and the code which led us there, and I think by early 2009[0] we should be in really good shape. Finally.

I felt a bit bad posting a blog entry just about myself, but then I thought hey, at least I'm not putting a picture of myself in here.
[0]: Peter has a thesis to write, I have work to do and another move to make, et al.

The X Developers' Conference 2008 will be held at the Googleplex in Mountain View, California from April 16th-18th, 2008. If you're interested in coming, please sign up at the wiki; we're also interested in having people talk if they want to. More details as they come to hand, but start booking your flights now.

After my shameless beg, a number of people emailed me (thanks -- sorry about the lack of comments) to tell me that I should really be using awesome, and I am. (Other popular suggestions were wmii and dwm.) I'm well happy with it so far, so thanks!

Dear lazyweb,
I want to try out a window manager like Ion, but I don't want to actually use Ion due to the fact the author's an irritating nutcase who I'd rather not encourage any further, and its utterly daft license. What's a man to do?

Following on from AMD's announcement at XDS 2007, Intel have just released documentation on their graphics hardware, without NDA, available to the public. There's also a mirror at X.Org. Cheers, Intel!