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I have a new favourite thing in the world

Really really really loud music, like eardrum bursting bleeding inner ear, loud

I have always had a huge love for music, and purchasing this iPod has made it even worse, I turn it off to shower, answer phone calls, and attend boring business meetings (god, I wish the last wasn't true...). There is little more empowering than listening to good loud music all day long. The ability to conjure up 40GB of music at a touch makes me feel better than it should, a lot better ;) [Don't worry you MonoDevelop news starved people, I will get to it after a bit more noise]

Jackson, famed Mono hacker and victoria bc [sl/h]acker public enemy #1, has turned me on to one of the most horrible and yet amazingly stimulating habits of all time. Go to livejournal (No, i wont link) and click on the Random button.

I have discovered that 90% of those blogs fit into one of the three following types:

• Diary blogs by middle school preteen girls about flowers, hand holding, puppies, and how hard Ms Green's math test was.
• Black on black content about how being so goth your heart stopped beating when you came out of the womb is the coolest thing since sliced bread.
• A blog that I don't understand because its in one of the many languages Duncan knows that I don't (how was I supposed to know taking 4 years of Latin would leave me only able to converse with people dead for 2000 years and Catholic priests).

Now, I feel like the last category of blog is most likely the ones that contain the best info, because I really can't stand the other ones. I am going to in my spare time start up a livejournal (oh the irony) that just links to horrible livejournals that scare me deeply. Not that any of that really matters, but I had to share this info with someone other than my dog.

Now, to MonoDevelop, work is amazing, we have toolbars, lots of functional menu items, status bar services running (makes the statusbar easy to use), lots and lots of pieces, its starting to all fall into place. The big item I know everyone wants is #1 on my hitlist now, I am going to nail code completion next. It will be like david vs. goliath, but I will prevail, and hopefully soon. We are looking to hopefully release a super amazingly broken alpha to you hungry users as soon as code completion is complete and a couple other loose ends are tied together.

Actually, it will be up to you, the reader/user/hacker/coder/etc as to when we release. We can either do a release soonish that will provide you a bit of a preview of what we are doing, where we are going, and how amazing it is, or we can hold off a bit and release a nicer version with project support and a lot of the other IDEy things we all expect. I can't give a timeframe for either release, but I'll let you people make the call, just give me an idea of the general feel via comments here, email, irc, however.

PS - Happy New Year