Demonstrated today that the Patching system works with Opatch (after fixing a couple of bugs). That's upload, stopdb, patch, startdb, verify. Also did a bunch of cleanup. Need to put together a list of remaining work items and switch over to auditing.
More adventures with the Systems group: Between the two of them, they were asked to get lynx installed and running on the customer system since it was down. An hour later, I stepped in and did it in five minutes.
Chan is supposed to start developing on Clarity tomorrow. As if I don't have enough to worry about babysitting the Systems people, now I have to find something for him to do which won't keep him in my hair for the next week.
Worked until 9.
No House tonight. American Idol was on instead. Dammit.
Did some reading tonight on Perl6/Parrot/Pug.
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Monday, January 16, 2006
Deliverance
Benny and I gave the first demo of patching to Shamoun today. He seems quite happy. Still have a couple of things to clean up over the next few days, but the heat is off for now.
Left work at a reasonable time (7:10). Met up with Carter for a drink. Then went back to her place and finished the movie from Saturday. Came home and watched the second half of the season premiere of 24.
I was on the subway home, listening to my iPod. I was smiling. Just thinking about the fact that I'm here in the big city, and I'm making it.
It was a good Monday.
Left work at a reasonable time (7:10). Met up with Carter for a drink. Then went back to her place and finished the movie from Saturday. Came home and watched the second half of the season premiere of 24.
I was on the subway home, listening to my iPod. I was smiling. Just thinking about the fact that I'm here in the big city, and I'm making it.
It was a good Monday.
Sunday, January 15, 2006
Television
Had a pretty slow day. Had a headache, so I took a nap this afternoon. Met up with Dan for dinner at Uncle George's, and then we went back to his place and watched the West Wing. Afterwards we watched the season premiere of 24. I had not seen it before but now I'm hooked. Crap.
Came home and watched Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy.
So in other words, all I did today was watch TV.
Came home and watched Desperate Housewives and Grey's Anatomy.
So in other words, all I did today was watch TV.
Saturday, January 14, 2006
Hot Chocolate, MoMA
Had a pretty good day. Got some hot chocolate from Starbucks, went into Manhattan and worked at the office for a couple of hours. Then went to the Museum of Modern Art. Saw the Pixar exhibit on computer animation, among other things. Had some more hot chocolate. Got caught in the downpour without my umbrella. Went over to Carter's with dinner from Burger Heaven, and we rented a movie. Now I'm home and ready for sleep.
Friday, January 13, 2006
Success
Patching system works. Wohoo. Even got home before 9pm tonight!
Went to the Acme Underground for lunch today with the CEO and 12 others. Buffalo wings, Po' Boy chicken sandwich. Not bad.
At around 8:00 tonight, Caeli told me to "go home". I asked her what was at home?
Having some concerns how effectively the new Systems person is coming along. Why can't we find a Systems Genius? Where is Patrick? How come I know more than all the Systems people? How come they spend three hours trying to figure out what the hell is going on, and I give them the answer after looking at it for like 30 seconds?
Debating what to do with the weekend. The title to the car didn't show up, so I won't be meeting up with Naomi's parents.
Went to the Acme Underground for lunch today with the CEO and 12 others. Buffalo wings, Po' Boy chicken sandwich. Not bad.
At around 8:00 tonight, Caeli told me to "go home". I asked her what was at home?
Having some concerns how effectively the new Systems person is coming along. Why can't we find a Systems Genius? Where is Patrick? How come I know more than all the Systems people? How come they spend three hours trying to figure out what the hell is going on, and I give them the answer after looking at it for like 30 seconds?
Debating what to do with the weekend. The title to the car didn't show up, so I won't be meeting up with Naomi's parents.
Thursday, January 12, 2006
The scent of Kool-Aid
Back at the office. Went out for drinks with some people from the office. Shannon spilled some sort of fruity drink on me.
Waiting for software to compile. Dave Matthews on the iPod.
Making more progress on the patching project. Sat in on a meeting for the Sales Demo. It's interesting to see the differences between what Sales is selling and, you know, Reality. High expectations from Engineering.
Talked to Mom. She's plugging along. Wants me to help her get the digital camera setup so she can start doing Ebay again. Perhaps I will see her this weekend (if the title doesn't show up for my car [in which cases I need to get together with Naomi's parents to exchange it for the money and license plates]).
Ok, compile done. Back to work.
Waiting for software to compile. Dave Matthews on the iPod.
Making more progress on the patching project. Sat in on a meeting for the Sales Demo. It's interesting to see the differences between what Sales is selling and, you know, Reality. High expectations from Engineering.
Talked to Mom. She's plugging along. Wants me to help her get the digital camera setup so she can start doing Ebay again. Perhaps I will see her this weekend (if the title doesn't show up for my car [in which cases I need to get together with Naomi's parents to exchange it for the money and license plates]).
Ok, compile done. Back to work.
Wednesday, January 11, 2006
Work and drinks on hump day
Worked. Gave the Clarity overview to the new Systems person. Figured out that LILO doesn't work on our blades because the old version packaged with Red Hat doesn't support Major 67 for SCSI devices. At least now I know what was happening. Also fixed the bug mentioned yesterday with file descriptors being inherited across fork(). Now my agent doesn't crash. Go me.
Making more progress on patching. For the first time I was able to use Benny's GUI to call my installation engine. Very nice. The target is to demo at the end of the week.
Afterwards, Dan, Morris and I went out to Reservoir for dinner/drinks. Then on the cab ride back to Astoria with Dan, Matt called and we met him, Alana, and Jeff for drinks at the Broadway station. Now I'm home and tired and ready for bed.
Making more progress on patching. For the first time I was able to use Benny's GUI to call my installation engine. Very nice. The target is to demo at the end of the week.
Afterwards, Dan, Morris and I went out to Reservoir for dinner/drinks. Then on the cab ride back to Astoria with Dan, Matt called and we met him, Alana, and Jeff for drinks at the Broadway station. Now I'm home and tired and ready for bed.
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