USA Today interview at Palmsource conference
Tags: irc
Hey look! I was in USA Today! Note to self: Never talk to anyone at PalmSource. He never presented himself as a reporter when he was at the booth talking small-talk to me.
dhd: I feel your pain wrt telecommunications companies. I can make long-distance calls, but not local calls, because my “local long distance” charges exceeded 75% of some threshold I was never told about. Even to this day, they can’t tell me what that threshold is.
ianmacd: I think something “odd” has happened to my access at the Palm Pavilion. I now no longer have access to anything with my login that I can’t get publicly through the normal seeding pages. It would appear as though I now have less access than before. johnm Did I piss someone off?
jpr: I saw your abstract. If I can finagle it from work, I’ll try to make it to OLS to catch your talk. I promise I won’t heckle like I did over there. I have way too much on my plate right now, so I don’t think I’ll be submitting any papers this year for that.
New Years
Boring.
I coded my butt off.
The results of the new Plucker Portal will be live soon. The Perl major hurdles are done. I might start playing with Text::Template soon too. Looks promising. I hope they’re not just shrouding eval in a module though.
Some of my slurped ViewCVS redirection:
my $redirect = substr $path, 5; # drop "/cvs/";
my $cvs_info;
my $loop = 5; # nuke the redirect loop
do {
local $ENV{SCRIPT_NAME} = "$script/cvs";
local $ENV{PATH_INFO} = $redirect || '/';
$cvs_info = $CVS_PATH 2>/dev/null;
($redirect) = $cvs_info =~ m{
^Status:s+301s+Moved
Location:s+Q$ENV{SCRIPT_NAME}E/(.*)
}x;
} while (defined $redirect and $loop--);
for ($cvs_info) {
if (m#^Content-Type: text/plain#) {
$_ = (split / /, $_, 2)[1];
s/&/&/g;
s/</</g;
s/>/>/g;
$_ = "<pre>$_</pre>";
} else {
s#.*<body[^>]*>##is;
s#</body>.*##is;
s#"$script/cvs/~checkout~/#"$CVS_URL/~checkout~/#g;
}
}
print $cvs_info;Airlines
Looks like these are my plans for January:
- 1-13-2001 to 1-22-2001: Fly from SF to Colorado for vacation with Erika
- 1-22-2001 to 1-29-2001: Fly from Colorado back to SF for training at Linuxcare SF facility
- 1-29-2001 to 2-3-2001: Fly from SF to New York for Linuxworld Expo
“How Do You Eat An Elephant?”
Somewhere in here, I have to find time to get the BBC cvs up and working for public development, prepare my slides for LWE, release pilot-link 0.9.5, get my Sony Clie kernel module finished, complete two lingering HOWTOs (perhaps I can do these on the airplanes?), shim in JogDial and MemoryStick support into Plucker, and lots more.
And that work thing. Lots of projects there too. Have to get the final report out for $PROJECT[1], the $PROJECT[2] serial alarm daemon, and $PROJECT[3] for the Wine stuff. Can’t say any more at this point.
Dysfunctional Family Life
I managed to find my dad on the net.
That’s oddly surreal. He left me when I was 3 years old. I wonder if he even knows I exist. Or does he even care. I was talking to a guy in #perl on irc, and he said my last name seemed familiar, and that his stepfather’s last name was the same as mine. After some digging, I realized that this guy’s stepfather was my father’s brother. Weeeeeird.
I have a brother and a mother somewhere too. I wonder where they are.
Pilot Goo
If anyone has any ideas for conduits for pilot-link or gnome-pilot, let me know. I’ve posted my wish list here. Consider it an ad-hoc TODO list.