January, 2, 2005 archives

it would be nice if weblog software did not start pinging services like blo.gs until the third entry or so. that would eliminate most of the requests i get to remove entries that just appeared because someone was testing new blogging software at a temporary location, or testing the install of new blogging software before switching their main site over to it. the same thing goes for blogs appearing in blogger’s list of changed sites.

and i am endlessly amused by the variations of with-and-without index.php or index.html, or 'http://example.com/blog' vs. 'http://example.com/blog/'. i need to finish up the handling of redirects found when checking if the site was updated, and probably add code to handle the presence or absence of index.php (or index.html) like it handles the 'www.' prefix.

i’m supposed to have drinks with one group of old coworkers next week, a different group of old coworkers is having a get-together a few days after that, my ten-year college reunion is in april, and there’s other reunions in the works. so it is the year of reunions.

one fun thing is that when people ask me what i do, i can now tell them i’m a maintenance engineer. i don’t know about you, but the first thing i think when i hear that title is janitor. which is also sort of accurate, if you put “code” in front of it.

i fixed four bugs today. that puts me on a pace for fixing approximately 750 bugs this year. but i guess it may be a little early in the year to make projections like that.