Done yesterday (20110602 Th)

[mdlbear]

0602 Th
  * up 6:12; W=199.4; drugs, nose; dishes, coffee, light
  @ Thoughts for scientist parents - Boing Boing 
  @ A possible link between pollution and crime -- and marshmallows - Boing Boing
  @ How long until Internet Explorer falls below 50 percent?
    " Want to bet that, a year from now, IE has dipped well below 50 percent,
      and Chrome (including native Android browsing) sits around 20 percent,
      with Apple products not too far behind? I'd even venture a guess that
      IE6 will still be gunning at 10 percent or more. Old habits -- and old
      proprietary systems -- die hard. 
    "
  * 15min:  pulling from dsl has errors because some files/directories in mm
    and users/steve are readable only by steve.  Move to someplace that isn't
    pushed in the first place.  Feature, not bug.
    [ vv/mm/books/Moiras_kindle -> vv/bak  vv/users/steve/tmp -> ~ ]
  * Spent some of lunch break posting to.done.  Let's not make that a habit.
  * short walk (to end of block) with a stop at the Beige Building for chili
  : power outage ~3:30; net went out instantly and never came back.  Something
    bollixed with stargate.
    -> external disk not coming up in time to be fsck'ed.  :(
  & small communication difficulty over dinner -- forgot to ask Colleen if
    she'd had dinner, and assumed that she had.  Wrong.
  & 15min:  freed up the old rolling stand from the sewing room, to be used
    for Algol and its UPS.  Too tall, and a little too wide to go sideways.
  ~ didn't pay bills :(  What's with that?

Yesterday's main event, besides getting the shell script that I've been working on working, was a power outage at home. Wherein I discovered that the external disk on the router was what kept it from coming back promptly when the power finally came back.

It's less obvious why the net connection went out immediately instead of waiting for the UPS to time out; I suspect that a power strip isn't on the UPS that I think it's on. Growf.

An amusing link: How long until Internet Explorer falls below 50 percent?

Want to bet that, a year from now, IE has dipped well below 50 percent, and Chrome (including native Android browsing) sits around 20 percent, with Apple products not too far behind? I'd even venture a guess that IE6 will still be gunning at 10 percent or more. Old habits -- and old proprietary systems -- die hard.

In all, a pretty good day. Even managed a short walk.