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A discussion here got me thinking about why it rubbed me the wrong way. Aside from the fact that I think it’s a Bad Thing for Mint to have people charge money for peppers because it will seriously limit the appeal of Mint I think my main beef is not with the guy charging for a plugin, it’s a free world, do what you want. No, I don’t like the reasoning of some of the people commenting.
The way I see it is this; either you code something because you have a use for it, because you want to flex your coding muscles simply because you can. Or, you do it because you want to earn money. Black or white, at least in this case where there’s no other way to get said plugin.
And I’ll be damned if I fork over any money to someone for a small subset of a program which is basically just a small bit of eyecandy. To me that’s something totally different than for example this one, where someone creates something because he gets a kick out of it, distributes it for free (and under an open license, meaning you’re free to modify and redistribute the code) and just put up a small donation notice asking for a few bucks to buy a beer (or whatever) if you like what he made.
Maybe I’m anal about it, but I’d rather hand over a few bucks to the second guy than the first, and I hope many people will follow suit.

After a few months of still rather warm weather winter has finally started here as well, causing huge traffic jams on friday with some people being stuck in traffic for 12 hours or more. Luckily I had no problems whatsoever although I am slightly worried if this weather continues seeing as I have 7 days of training up north, starting on the 5th.
It does make for pretty pictures though.

I had a loooot of ideas for this year, most of which bombed for one reason or another, either work or social life related. Things are starting to smooth out a bit (he said while crossing his fingers) so it’s time to start looking forward to next year. There are a lot of thing I’d like to do or change, some lighthearted, some more serious.
Several of the things I’m looking forward to;
- Doing a colab with Moggy for a new design
- Poking the site and making it more me again, which has already started, still no idea where it’s all going to lead but it’ll be a fun ride nonetheless. Actually I have several ideas but I’ll save those for another post.
- Begging, borrowing or stealing a Mac laptop.
- Vacation! That exploded in my face big time this year, still feeling rather meh about not having been able to kick back and chill.
Which also lead to the following brainfart;

The plan (insert drumroll) is to go off for a weekend each month next year to a different country in Europe and just chill, party, cruise, enjoy the scenery or whatever. My partner in crime as always is CommSie, and it’s something I’m very much looking forward to. It doesn’t have to be the thrill of a lifetime each and every time but just the thought of getting away from everything for a weekend a month seems so damn… relaxing.

So, does anyone have any suggestions regarding where we could go and what we could do there?

Harry Potter part VI = good,
Playing boardgames with a group of friends = good,
Age of Empires III = crack,
Sleep = good.

And that concludes the weekend. Which leaves my todo list growing as usual, hopefully I’ll really get round to working on this layout some more during the week.
Note to self; buy Mint.