Late night

Was out with Vikki until 2:30am. Indian for dinner. Talked in Union Square Park.

Dan: "You know what that was?"
Casey: "No. What?"
Dan: "Another missed opportunity."

Running late for work....

Tuesday

Worked from 10am to 7:30pm. Making good progress and wrote a bunch of code today. Afterwards Dan and I went back to Queens and got dinner at Broadway Station.

Just as the food showed up, Vikki called and wanted to know if I wanted to have coffee. Figures, the first night I leave the office at a normal time and that's the night Vikki calls to see if I am still at the office. If the food had not just shown up, I would have hopped a cab and went back into Manhattan. Will hopefully meet up with her later in the week (depending on her work schedule). Her birthday is Sunday and I suggested we should go out to celebrate.

Watched House and Boston Legal.

New week

So it's Monday. Worked from 9:30 to 8:30. Met up with Patrick for dinner in Queens. Was good to catch up.

More progress made on the manager API work. Most of Benny's problems today were because his code was out of date for his dagent. Naoum spun new RPMs this evening, so hopefully those problems will go away. It's good in that he is finding all sorts of edge cases that normally would not have been run into under normal circumstances, however it is time consuming and we really need to get back on track.

Received an odd email tonight. It was a Google Talk invitation from Naomi. I find this strange for a number of reasons:

1. She knows I already have a Google Talk account because I have use gmail.com as my primary email.
2. She knows I use a Mac which doesn't support Google Talk.
3. She could have talked to me all she wanted to in person over coffee last week when she was in New York, if she had not blown me off.
4. I have Cingular cell phone service, which means I can talk to her on a real phone for free whenever I want, bringing into question why I would go through the trouble to deal with the hassle of Voice over the Internet.

Very strange.

Watched 24 and the Sopranos tonight.

Progress continues

Worked from 11:30 to 7:30. Made some pretty good progress and cleaned up some bugs. Naoum was there too. Also got our Bugzilla to authenticate against our Active Directory server via LDAP (with Ben's help). Should make account management a bit easier (and one less password to remember and change).

Met up with Carter afterwards. Went to a cafe on 2nd Avenue for desert and coffee.

So after leaving work, I grabbed a cab to take me up to Carter's on 99th street. As we were driving up Park avenue, I noticed that the driver kept slowing down at green lights. I thought this was strange. Then we were stopped at a red light, and when it turned green the cab didn't move. The cabbie had fallen asleep! I shouted, "HEY! WAKE UP!". I'm just glad he didn't fall asleep at the wheel when the cab was moving. Dumbass.

Home now. Watched The West Wing.

Sunday - Quick break

Taking a quick break from work.

Ever setup a Linux box? Then you know how all Linux servers that come with the Apache web server start with a very basic "You have installed Apache successfully" home page like the following.

Well, some ISP for the City of Oklahoma screwed up its web hosting configuration, and the manager of IT for the city contacted CentOS (the Linux distribution vendor) and threatened to call the FBI on them since the OS vendor "hacked" their website.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/24/tuttle_centos/

The irony comes in the fact that when the Apache group (which makes the Apache webserver) first started the practice of providing a default page, they got all sorts of email. So they made it VERY clear in the content of the page that if you see this page then you should contact your own IT department or webmaster (and not the Apache group).

Quite funny. Well if you're not into computers then you might not find it funny.

Ok, back to work...

Saturday - One day weekend!

First day off in nineteen days. Go me.

Went down to New Brunswick and met up with Kyle. Lunch at Olive Garden, went back to her place and helped with some gardening. She fixed my coat. Good to see her.

She gave me a Sodoku puzzle to take home with me. It was labeled as "hard". This being my first Sodoku puzzle, I have learned a couple of lessons:

1. Start with a simple puzzle
2. Read a strategy guide.
3. Use a pencil (or have extra paper)

I was up until midnight working on it (4 hours), got about 1/2 way through and then got stuck. So I guessed at one of the fields that I narrowed down to two possible values, and I guessed wrong.

Back to work tomorrow.

So tired

Got to work at 10:00. Got home from work at 11:30. Had an extended talk with Shamoun and Tom.

Made more progress on the automation. Reworked activate/deactivate routines to properly forward multi-step commands to the agent. Pretty much ready for the create cluster test tomorrow.

Debating the merits of putting Novell Desktop linux on my main VMWare workstation. The fact is that aside from xterm, the two key application I use they system for are Evolution and OpenOffice. Well, Novell (Ximian) is the author of Evolution, and Novell is the largest contibutor to OpenOffice outside of Sun, so my hope is that their implementations of these applications are a bit more recent in terms of bug fixes than what I might find in Fedora or the other distros that are using upstream sources. Will have to try out and see.

Got an email from egb today (first in a while). Apparently the Bell Labs site in Holmdel is closing. Guess it's an end of an era.

For those not familiar, Here is a link with a bit of background.