Archive for August, 2007

Friday, August 31st, 2007

I just spent pretty much the whole week working on one problem.
Most of the time was spent trying to set up the situation so that I could actually reproduce and test the problem.

Today, I fixed the problem.
I changed the letters int to ub2 in one place.
40 hours of work, three changed letters, one happy customer.

Moon

Tuesday, August 28th, 2007

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This is probably the single most awesome photo I have ever taken in my life.

I think I’m getting old.

Sunday, August 26th, 2007

It never used to take me an entire day to recover from a big night before.

blah.

I think I need to go back to bed

Conflux 4 virtual mini-con

Sunday, August 5th, 2007

Well, I just spent the last 24 hours running the Conflux 4 virtual mini-con. It was exhausting – I had intended to be up for the whole 24 hours, but unfortunately I faded at around 7 and had to go get a couple of hours sleep – but it was definitely very worthwhile and rewarding. It was successful beyond all my expectations.
I had been deeply worried that we’d have hours of one or two people sitting around virtually staring at each other, but the pace kept flowing pretty much all night – we averaged around 1.3 posts per minute for 24 hours, and had more than 1900 posts from 80 members and guests.

There were a couple of unfortunate hiccups along the way, with confusions over times and the occasional technical difficulty for a couple of the guests, but that sort of thing always happens and even those who had problems still managed to take part even if a little delayed.

But anyway, now is the time for me to go have a much needed shower and then think seriously about even greater needed sleep. (That sentence is wrong, but my brain is too fuzzy to figure out how to make it right)