Last week the OCEAN project meeting took place in Elgoibar near San Sebastian and Bilbao. I took the opportunity to visit the Guggenheim museum and experience the local habits such as the delicious pintxos and the marvelous ciderhouse-style diner.

The local people were all very friendly and there was a very warm and safe atmosphere all over.

This is definitely a place I'd like to visit again.

About two weeks ago on a Saturday, I memorised the Hiragana characters. I'm able to recognise and read them all and their combinations. I started memorising the Katakana characters on Sunday, but since Sunday is family gathering day, I didn't have enough time to spend.

The number of header and source files in the RTAI Kilauea tree determined with a simple find: 574.

In the Vesuvio tree: 569.

And finally in the new Magma tree: 325. Which shows that some serious cleanup has occurred.

The RTAI developers are preparing to release a new version based on the magma branch. My first impressions are quiet good. They seem to have removed a lot of the unnecessary stuff, which makes the project appear somewhat less complicated.

Creating DVD-Videos with Open Source software has gotten a lot easier recently. By using ffmpeg, dvdauthor and growisofs one can create a valid DVD-Video for free and rather fast.

Last Sunday I experimented with using CORBA from within Blender's Python scripting environment. Yesterday, I extended these simple scripts to use the EventService to receive its updated data.