This is probably the reason why I’ll never use Mercurial as a version control system: its complete inability to revert to a known, sane state without deleting and starting all over. No thank you I’d prefer not to have to re-download 10′s of MB of data onto my NFS home dir when I have a perfectly good, already almost perfect copy on disk.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2139165/mercurial-delete-all-local-changesets-revert-to-tree

Now I remember why I had a bad feeling about Gnome’s Empathy (http://live.gnome.org/Empathy). It’s because after having to install deps that aren’t bundled by default (what good is a program that doesn’t come with any backends by default?), and starting 5+ daemons that I didn’t have to have running before, it still doesn’t open a window.

Anyone have the desire, the means, and the time to spend a week in France to go see Chad?