Long day, days, at the office. I feel responsible for not working on things that I’ve placed as high priority/important because I get caught up in other projects and want to do a good job.
Like my clipboard has been dieing more and more on my XP desktop, and when trying to test an SSL Cert I realized I needed to do it externally, and figured, install ubuntu, run firefox remotely over an ssh tunnel!
A few hours later I had things sorted out (compiz-fusion doesn’t like xinerama for dualhead. Use twinview. Coredumps make not for good error messages, this is why we hate binary drivers). All in all, having a linux desktop again has made things so much easier. I can once again keep track of ssh connections, since I have compiz cube running again it’s easy to keep each project on a set of virtual desktops. Plus I can still run synergy and use my windows laptop. Today I set up the rt command line utilities as well, which I think will be more useful than the mail TakeAction stuff.
I know much more has been on my mind than computers, but it’s mostly fading thoughts in dreams and musing on the bus to and from downtown. Moving is coming up quick and the room is all clean.
After ranting about dimdim the other day, the CMO emailed me and called me to talk about it. Swell guy, he said the CTO was going to call, but he never did. Oh well. Maybe I’ll look at the state of dimdim again in a week or two and see if they’ve changed or it was just fluff. Works to be done in the interim.
At about 3pm today I realized I had no idea if I had eaten lunch or not. I just had no idea if I had posted about my grandparents being in town either, but that’s a little more believable. I think that I’ve been smelling unchicken soup everywhere that it’s a sign that there’s some wacky and medically wrong with me. Well… We know the wacky part is right.
Went to the Twilight for dinner the other day and Ken B. was there with Kirsten’s sister Reese. Apparently she’s a CS major AND had heard of Why the lucky stiff‘s poignant guide to Ruby. World’s a crazy place, like I said, it feels normalish though. Times sure do change…. gettin’ old.
More soup and sleep for me I think. Gotta build up some reserves for this weekend and I’ve still got a couple puppet recipes to write this week. Perhaps having a personal rule about not installing software anymore without writing a recipe was a bad idea.