Monotheca is a niche application for those interested in organizing their video collection but it shows the love that the author had for his trade: polished, HIG compliant, well-laid out.

• Michael Zucchi reimplements the IMAP backend in Evolution: I don't want to get too far ahead of myself, but it could potentially solve all the existing IMAP performance issues, well, about as well as they can ever be solved..
• Joseph Hill on MonoLive: the new mono-live project on Novell Forge. Beyond being a source repository, the Forge has bug and feature trackers, so I hope you'll use those tools to submit your suggestions / publicly lodge all of your complaints.
• Edd Dumbill authored a podcasting client: Unfortunately, none of the obvious Linux podcast software really fitted my needs. Either too lo-fi (bashpodder) or just completely scary (iPodder). So I started to write my own. Monopod is a simple Podcast client.
• OpenSolaris was released last week. Glynn has a few good introductory links here.
  The source is available on Bittorrent as well.
• Mark Fiore's's PainMan: his take on the ban of medical marijuana.
• Sebastien Pouliot on preventing integer overflows.
• Morten Wellinder talks about the limitations in the OASIS OpenDocument Standard.
• Rafi Mizrahi on how to do regression tests for image libraries and his implementation for System.Drawing.
• The Downing Street Memo: the largest embarrassment of the war on Iraq so far. The democrats met to discuss it (C-SPAN real player stream).
• Greg Palast written testimony and a timeline with photos is here.
• Robert Fisk asks why Saddam's interrogation was screened in silence: The pictures the BBC BBC admitted, were "mute". What in God's name did this mean? Who emasculated the BBC to such a degree that it should say such a ridiculous thing? Why were they mute? The BBC didn't tell us.
• Robert Fisk on torture.
• Brazil, Argentina and India stall patent reforms, demanding that any harmonization treaty include provisions on technology transfer, anti-competitive practices and safeguarding of public interest flexibilities. Go Brazil, Argentina and India!

This weekend we went to Alan's wedding in Cuernavaca, Mexico.

Adri�n, Mancha, Alan, Patrick playing.

Adri�n, Mancha, Alan, Patrick playing.

Laura and Mancha at Breakfast

Maria Laura and Maria Vielle.

Michael provided a screenshot from the work that MartinK and himself have been doing on adding support to write extensions for OpenOffice in Mono:

OpenOffice hosting Mono with its script.

Laura in Porto Alegre

With the Mono Brasil group in the FISL conference last week:

Laura and the Mono Brasil developers.

Philip, C# and the CLI have built-in support for async workers. Every delegate has support for asynchronous execution with BeginInvoke and EndInvoke.

Nat: do you want me to record this?

Robert: You are recording this.

Nat: am not recording.

Awesome presentation available here.

Michael Zucchi brings us C# bindings for Evolution.

Look at his incredibly cute program.