Not figuratively, literally. My bike has developed a (dangerous) tendency to lose its gear, often when I'm starting up from still, and also when I'm coasting. Not the chain, but likely the freewheel, according to elbie_at_trig, who was conveniently going home at the same time as me, just as I was thinking, "if only I could ask someone to jog along next to my ( Read more... )

( For anyone with home linux file-server opinions )

Last night was the monthly Linux User's Group. The topic was Xen / Server Virtualization. It was a pretty good high-level overview of the Server Virtualization products. The presenter is a rep for IBM Canada; he knows his stuff, though he really knows mainframes and VMWare, less so, Xen. Apparently they don't have many companies asking about ( Read more... )

I've come about 85% of the way to deciding to buy a mac laptop to use as my desktop computer. 15% reservations about it. I was at about 90% before I talked to dan yesterday ( Read more... )

I'm quite glad to be done with the work week. I was able to finish everything I wanted to by this evening, so I won't think about work at all this weekend (I had many nights this week when this was not the case; trying to puzzle out an answer when I should've been sleeping). Aside from the annoying bits, there were some good puzzles, too; partly ( Read more... )

I solved the problem I was having earlier with google calendar: I had to log out and back in again, and my errant missing calendar came back. So once again I think Google Calendar is a good thing, in my ongoing process of reducing my dependance on any particular computer. True, in exchange for dependance on network and one company. But that's OK ( Read more... )

This morning I fixed my bike's front tire which sprung a leak on Thursday, went to the farmer's market with lovecraftienne, and relieved quingawaga of a rather scary number of carrots that had appeared in their organic food box and they weren't going to use. Yay! Stir-fry ( Read more... )

This work week wasn't terribly easy, but it's done now, and I feel accomplished. Today, my boss and I finished the last part of a task that's taken up a chunk of my time since January. This was the last big step before we could release a new set of fancy Linux servers that will make our CS students very happy when they use the public labs. (Now ( Read more... )

This morning, the purchasing guy at work handed me a new ergonomic mouse; which means I can take my other one home again.

This morning I handed off my article on drawing quilt patterns to the editor of perl_review. The issue will come out some time in the spring, and since my article is on a colourful topic, it gets the cover. Now I have something else to ( Read more... )

Blah. Can't sleep, nervous energy. Been happening a lot lately. I can't say it's from job stress, since strictly speaking, I don't have one. (just a monotonically increasing number of projects).

This last week has been an interesting one, for the new projects I've added.

Last Monday I found myself volunteering to advise a Linux trainer who ( Read more... )