why the heck does my desk shake all the time?
It’d really annoying when your monitor (FD Trinitron or not) shakes from side to side on your desk all the time. Could it be the streetcars going by?
quiet nights and quiet stars
Well, I’m at my second day at work. This morning I wasn’t quite runing around like a madman, so I guess I’m starting to remember the daily morning routing quickly. The other daily routine is also starting to come back: coffee. I need to get some green tea and bring it in to work, before this starts getting serious again.
Random thing in the garbage at work today: a copy of Solaris 2.5 server.
bye, bye, Bell
Well, we got fed up with bell not being able to update the darn DSLAM fast enough, so I called Rogers and they’ll be around on Tuesday, guaranteed. Now that’s some decent service.
Of course, this won’t help me much because I’m in Toronto now for the
summer. Dial-up for me, yay. Woo-hoo. I’m so happy.
<sarcasm>
On the bus today I finally got around to starting to read the excellent sci-fi novel Bellwether by Connie Willis. Calum, you would appreciate this book, especially:
- Optimize potential.
- Facilitate empowerment.
- Implement visioning.
- Strategize priorities.
- Augment core structures.
the net… what is that thing again?
Well…. we’re finally finished setting up our new apartment. The furniture has been built and moved, the posters have been hung, the bed has been assembled, everything has been cleaned, polished, or put away. Now, if only Bell can get off their sorry asses and get our DSL hooked up properly and send us the kit, we’d be 100%. As it is, I’m writing this from campus.
much more moving
Operation: Move the Heck Out Already got under way today. Sandy and I
moved a lot of boxes with the car today. We made 5 or 6 trips to the new
place and unloaded everything into the machine room (at least, it will be
the machine room when we’re done with it). It was a bit of mayhem as
there were people moving out of our new place, U-Hauls parked everywhere,
cats running around, and the like. We moved a ton of stuff though. All
that’s really left is our furniture (desks, tables, beds), my computer,
and a box or two of clothes and miscellaneous stuff.
Other stuff I’ve been working on that needs to be complained about:
- The Newton’s representation of repeating events is really hard to decode.
- The vCalendar specification is a little looney.
- The vCalendar test application is very, very looney. Especially when it doesn’t handle times in accordance with the spec.
Yeah, I’m working on vCalendar support for NewtDump. Repeat meetings and events are going to be tough, though.
rejoice! today is not holy!
To: Jason, who called at around 11:30 EDT tonight from
518-834-7937
From: well, me
Subject: meh, no, I won’t give a subject
Dear Jason, who decided to call and tell me off:
If you don’t like what I write here, don’t read it.
Thank you.
PS: Reverse lookup is your friend.
