January, 11, 2005 archives

faceanalyzer is an interesting little application. it pegged me as a alpha academic. but more amusing than that is that it also said i’m chinese — with 100% certainty. probably because i didn’t use an expression-less picture like it says you should. (via marginal revolution.)

no bugs fixed today. i spent almost the entire day chasing a single bug that has turned out to be like one of those loose threads on a sweater that you shouldn’t pull.

on the bright side, my new machine arrived so i have something to play with tomorrow.

(and i’m so close to ordering a mac mini. i think apple is going to do very well with that machine.)

i started setting up my new development machine today. it’s an amd64, and so far i’ve installed ubuntu linux on it. the installation was totally painless. to be able to compile mysql 5.0 from the bitkeeper source tree, i had to install automake1.8, autoconf, libtool, gcc, g++, ccache (not a requirement, but nice), bison, gawk (mawk doesn’t work), libncurses5-dev, and libssl-dev. and those pulled in various dependencies thanks to the magic of apt-get.

one new bug fixed today, and two old bugs re-fixed. (mostly — still waiting for the build and test for one of them.)