My co-workers and I have dubbed last week, Hell Week. It was not good. It was, in fact, very, very bad. A lot of work, a lot of frustration, a lot of overtime. But the end result is that all the sections of Project Chaos are now live, so we're now mostly working on support for the next month or so until our maintenance team takes over ( Read more... )

I wrote a long blog post about Deployment Day Take Two and then I deleted it all because man, it was loooooong ( Read more... )

( Cut for fic writing blather )

( Cut for melting server rooms take three and crazy Project Doom stuff )

RIP Steve Jobs. It's hard to explain to non-geeks how much he changed things, but he made a huge impact on the computing world and it's going to be a slightly duller place without him. His core ideas - computers should be easy to use and look good - are the reason that so many iDevices do so well and keep people coming back. Thankfully those ideas ( Read more... )

I've decided that the best way to fix leap years so they don't break code is for us all to get off the planet and push. Speed it up ( Read more... )

It's possible that I completely overdid things with the cleaning on Saturday. There was a point, late in my sleepless Saturday night thanks to by back, when I started to worry that I'd overdone things so totally that I might not be able to pick Mum up from the airport ( Read more... )

I'm feeling much better about everything today. My back is feeling much better (the extra anti-inflammatories and the hour with a cold pack last night might have something to do with it), my stomach is behaving again and thus I can cope with the insanity at work. Hey, I'm even feeling quite sanguine about the possibility of missing my release ( Read more... )

Last night Mum and I decided that we needed to watch Dirty Dancing. I still love that movie so much. The dancing is amazing. The story is great and moving, the music is just right, but it's the dancing that really captures me. Swayze was fantastic :-( The only gripe I have is that the filming of the final big dance number, while beautiful, doesn't ( Read more... )

So, in two and a half weeks' time I fly to Denver to be a bridesmaid at my best friend's wedding(s). Fly Thursday, rehearsal plus post-rehearsal drinks Friday, ceremonies (yes, the plural is intentional) and reception on Saturday, fly home on Sunday and hopefully get into the house around midnight if the gods of connections, airports and taxis are ( Read more... )