My first day at the new job went pretty much as I expected. Filled with introductions, paperwork, mile-high system overviews, and the tedious configuration of a new workstation. The drive to/from the office was a little stressful, since it was raining. It took about an hour for the ~25 mile commute. I’m going to try to start leaving earlier and see if I can beat the rush. I’ve got a desktop PC running Debian Linux, … Continue reading
I start my new job tomorrow morning. Wish me luck!
Does anyone know if WMI in the Metro Atlanta area (specifically: Woodstock, Cherokee county) actually recycles anything? Anything at all? Because the last few times the recycling truck has come by our house, the guy has dumped the contents of our recycling bin into our trash can. And we get charged a $3/month fee for that privilege. Needless to say, we are not happy. We make an effort to segregate our recyclables, only putting in … Continue reading
Received in my email this morning: Dougal, Please find attached the formal offer. Sign a copy and bring it with you on Dec 6th, but for now just indicate your acceptance via email and I’ll start the paperwork rolling. Let me know if you have any questions. I’ll be a Senior Software Engineer for a small-but-growing tech company that survived the dot-com bust. From what I know so far, my primary responsibility will be to … Continue reading
Netcraft: SCO “own all your code” SCO’s web site now proudly proclaims “We own all your code” and “pay us all your money”. On the one hand, I definitely don’t endorse attacks like this. They only serve to hurt the image of ethical programmers who support open source projects. But on the other hand, that is funny as hell. If you don’t know what all the hubub is about, you can find lots of links … Continue reading
4 days 13 mouths to feed (9 adults, 4 kids) 3 blocks of cheese 2 boxes of crackers 1 very large summer sausage 1 bag of baby carrots 1 bag of broccoli florets 1 bag of cauliflower 1 pint of ranch dip 1 pint of shrimp dip 1 pint of spinach dip 4 turkeys cooked (2 baked, 2 smoked) 2 potato & sausage dressing casseroles 2 cans of cranberry sauce 2 batches of gravy 1 … Continue reading
Extreme technical blogging geekout zone ahead! blo.gs: hook up a cloud the old cloud service that operated via rebroadcasting pings over HTTP is being phased out. it is no longer documented here, and will be shut down at the end of 2004. (also, the changes.xml files will also no longer be available after 2004.) I’ve been using the blo.gs changes.xml file for a while to track recently updated sites in my blogroll. So now I … Continue reading
I managed to get a little computer time today after all (everybody else is watching movies and/or in Turkey Coma). I could write paragraphs and paragraphs about all the little things I’m thankful for. But really, there are only a few things that really matter. In particular there are two rather big things worth mentioning here now. The first one is a new job. I’ve really enjoyed the contract work that I’ve been doing since … Continue reading
I don’t know if I’ll get to fire up the computer tomorrow (or the next day, or the next day…), so I’ll take this opportunity to wish everyone a Happy Thanksgiving! We’re going to be baking one turkey and smoking another. Plus we’ll have some sausage/potato stuffing, corn casserole, brocolli casserole, green bean casserole, spinach dip, shrimp dip, pumpkin pie, and assorted other goodies, stretched out over three days (we’ve got relatives coming in on … Continue reading
I’m back. Did you miss me? I didn’t think so. Anyhow, ever since Feedster announced their new ping interface earlier this month, we’ve been getting requests to add them to Ping-O-Matic. Matt contacted them to make sure that they wanted us to start bombarding them with our pings, and they said ‘okay’. So a short while ago, I flipped the switch. We also got the word that A2B was ready for us to step them … Continue reading