mdlbear | Done yesterday (20100927 Mo) (Reply)

0927 Mo
  * up 6:30; W=197.6; drugs, nose, teeth; coffee, breakfast
  @ U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet - NYTimes.com
    Somebody needs to explain Diffie-Hellman to these idiots
  $ hsx: $15 from Lee @work
  * lunch @ Sr. J's with (coworker) Jake after smashing bug all morning
    (Jake's upgrade interacting with my use of `pwd` for symlink targets.
  % aha: maybe I don't do things like music because they're "fun", and there
    are two many not-fun things that need doing.
  * Some actual _work_, as in programming.  About time.
  * need 3-way bulb for new torchiere
  @ gmcdavid - First Observation of Hawking Radiation
  @ REI - Packing Smart: Tips and Checklist
    Travel Preparation Checklist
    Astounding Arches In Pavilion of 33,000 Beer Crates (Photos) :
    TreeHugger
  & Pidgin, OTOH, doesn't seem to be working.   Network Manager idiocy.
    -> needs -f to force it to ignore the stupid netmanager
  * much of the way through the left-hand paper pile on the desk
  . track down paperwork for Wendy:  * W2's, * stmts from Wells, * pay stubs,
    stmts from both retirement acct's (current, old)
    * 2009 W2 missing - check attic -> what were the folders doing _there_?
    x o T. Roe Price    o Ricoh    * Hartford (sort of)

OK, yesterday morning was pretty insane. An implementation decision that I made ages ago, basically applying best practices and using /bin/pwd to compute the absolute path for a symlink target, blew up in our faces when /home got moved to a bigger disk by changing the symlink. Oops. Bind mounts to the rescue, and we managed to get it all diagnosed and temporarily fixed before any of the trial users got caught by it. Just barely. Kudos to the QA team for promtly reporting the problem.

In the afternoon I actually got some work done, finally. And made considerable inroads on the huge pile of paper to the left of my keyboard. (Looking for some bank statements that mostly didn't get found, so hopefully we can get away without them.)

The day's major insight: I tend not to do things like music that I know I'll enjoy. Could that be because I know there are so many things I know I won't enjoy that still need doing, and that are "more important"?

And now the U.S. Wants to Make It Easier to Wiretap the Internet -- somebody needs to explain the implications of Diffie-Hellman key exchange to these idiots.

Some more, and more fun, links under the cut.