January, 3, 2005 archives

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.

five bugs fixed, one marked can’t-repeat.

and too much time wasted spent doing builds with a too new version of automake. ah, the bleeding edge. it cuts so good. (if you are compiling mysql 5.0 from the bk tree, you want automake 1.8, and not 1.9. or so i’ve been led to believe.)

and i ordered my new development machine (and an msdn subscription so i can do windows-y things.) more on those when they arrive.

rumor has it that six apart (makers of movable type blogging software and typepad blogging service) are going to buy live journal (and by live journal, i think they mean danga interactive). it seems like it would be a good fit from what i know of the people involved in both companies and their development platforms. (they’re both perl shops.) and six apart would be getting some of the folks doing the most interesting low-budget, open-source web scalability work that i’ve seen.

rumors that anyone is about to buy blo.gs are completely untrue. unless they aren’t.