Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

... to animekid!!! Have a great one!!

Done yesterday (20090617)

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It was a pretty good day, though not muich happened. I took a walk at lunchtime, and sang the two Bears, Wheelin', The River, and Riverheart rather late in the evening since we had a guest who hadn't heard them. I think there may have been a couple of other people who hadn't heard me sing "Riverheart", judging from the surprised looks I got.

I still do not like having to get 8 hours or more of sleep. I feel better, but get a lot less done. Including some important things that make me unhappy not to have done.

The house feels hot and humid. I miss Spring. (OTOH it's only 70F in here -- what's with that?)

In about a month I'm going to be giving a lunchtime talk on the git distributed version control system at work. (The documentation page is a good place to start, BTW.) Expect an outline and slides here at some point, in part because I need to explain how to use it to manage shared websites like the Tempered Glass site.

Is it just me?

... or has anyone else been having trouble connecting to Yahoo Messenger in the last couple of days?

I've checked, and I can still log in on yahoo.com and flikr.com; my password hasn't changed. I'm using pidgin, for what it's worth; Adium on the mac seems to have the same problem.

ETA: it's mysterious, but yahoo has a fix posted

replacing scs.msg.yahoo.com as the server in the Pidgin accounts setup with the IP address of a Yahoo server, say, 66.163.181.189, fixes it. You can choose any of the yahoo servers below:

66.163.181.179 - 66.163.181.180 - 66.163.181.181 - 66.163.181.182 - 66.163.181.183 - 66.163.181.166 - 66.163.181.167 - 66.163.181.168 - 66.163.181.169 .......... etc. ...170....171....172...

Then simply disable your Yahoo account after doing the replacement, and then re-enable it and it will work.

Stuffalanches

My office at the Starport has just suffered its second stuffalanche this month; this time it was a cascade of envelopes from the charity and investment piles. *Sighs* The previous one was mostly magazines, and still hasn't been picked up -- it mostly went under the counter around the non-functional computer.

It's all going to take a lot more than 15 minutes to clean up, I'm afraid; there's a lot of triage that still needs to be done. Later.