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Yup, still here.
Mar. 21st, 2005 02:10 amOr, more to the point, here again, as I am now back from a delightful spring break spent with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
yoctohedron in San Francisco. The more time I spend in that town, the more I like it, and the more I look forward to living there. (Okay, so not all of spring break was spent in SF; I was in Minneapolis for the last day and a half, participating in martian_bob's vaguely annual confluence of geeks.)
More on all these things later, as I am tired.
The Head Minion was good to his word, and cleaned the living room while I was gone. Yay for vacuumed floors! I don't think my clever plans to recarpet this place will ever come to fruition, but it's nice to know that I at least have theoretical carpeting skills for when the need arises in the future. I have also emptied the (not nearly so full as it was last time) laundry queue, gone grocery shopping, tidied the kitchen, gotten caught up on the bills, boxed up some packages to send to various people (this means you,briaer, and this will mean you, doissetep, as soon as I get to campus and figure out where I put your mailing address), and most importantly, fixed a nasty bug in dejector and written the web interface for letting people hammer on it. (I've learned that when I run across a bug sufficiently perplexing that I find myself writing out a long email to a collaborator or other resource describing the bug and asking for help, it's smart to read over that email a few times before hitting send, because in writing it, I've formalised the problem enough that the solution is quite probably staring me in the face and it's inconvenient to have to follow up with a "Never mind, solved it, thanks anyway". That happened tonight.)
Alas, the web interface is not actually ready for prime time yet, as my sysadmin only got mod_python up and running tonight, and the code relies on a shared library which I can certainly put into my own library path, but which I'm not entirely sure can then be accessed by an httpd that I don't own. But this is one of those sysadmin problems. Such is life when your fat pipe leads to a shared box. (Yeah, the other option was to run it on kato, but that would have involved (1) doing the work to get mod_python functioning myself, which I'd already tried per the docs and failed horribly at, and (2) getting people to poke at a server on the same connexion which the Head Minion has lately been using to torrent xbox games. I think you see the Path of Least Resistance quite clearly, dear reader.)
On the other hand, while my sysadmin was hammering on mod_python, I took some time out to make a really neat duct tape wallet. I can't possibly be disappointed when I have a duct tape wallet.
yoctohedron in San Francisco. The more time I spend in that town, the more I like it, and the more I look forward to living there. (Okay, so not all of spring break was spent in SF; I was in Minneapolis for the last day and a half, participating in martian_bob's vaguely annual confluence of geeks.)More on all these things later, as I am tired.
The Head Minion was good to his word, and cleaned the living room while I was gone. Yay for vacuumed floors! I don't think my clever plans to recarpet this place will ever come to fruition, but it's nice to know that I at least have theoretical carpeting skills for when the need arises in the future. I have also emptied the (not nearly so full as it was last time) laundry queue, gone grocery shopping, tidied the kitchen, gotten caught up on the bills, boxed up some packages to send to various people (this means you,
briaer, and this will mean you, doissetep, as soon as I get to campus and figure out where I put your mailing address), and most importantly, fixed a nasty bug in dejector and written the web interface for letting people hammer on it. (I've learned that when I run across a bug sufficiently perplexing that I find myself writing out a long email to a collaborator or other resource describing the bug and asking for help, it's smart to read over that email a few times before hitting send, because in writing it, I've formalised the problem enough that the solution is quite probably staring me in the face and it's inconvenient to have to follow up with a "Never mind, solved it, thanks anyway". That happened tonight.)Alas, the web interface is not actually ready for prime time yet, as my sysadmin only got mod_python up and running tonight, and the code relies on a shared library which I can certainly put into my own library path, but which I'm not entirely sure can then be accessed by an httpd that I don't own. But this is one of those sysadmin problems. Such is life when your fat pipe leads to a shared box. (Yeah, the other option was to run it on kato, but that would have involved (1) doing the work to get mod_python functioning myself, which I'd already tried per the docs and failed horribly at, and (2) getting people to poke at a server on the same connexion which the Head Minion has lately been using to torrent xbox games. I think you see the Path of Least Resistance quite clearly, dear reader.)
On the other hand, while my sysadmin was hammering on mod_python, I took some time out to make a really neat duct tape wallet. I can't possibly be disappointed when I have a duct tape wallet.
