Done yesterday (20100927 Mo)

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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.