Today is my oldest niece Jenifer's birthday. She's 13, and my younger brother's daughter. Having no kids myself, this makes me feel old.
- A medical co. is mad I haven't payed them. I'm mad they didn't bill my insurance. They just found out it was their fault. #
- Happy Birthday, @muskrat_john ! #
- Sushi with inari for lunch with the wife, it was nice. With Portland on the horizon (leaving tomorrow), more sushi is on the way! #
- Documenting a build and deploy process that isn't recorded anywhere, except maybe in my synapses. #
- I like *NIX's lsof. It's the utility you don't know you have until you need it. #
- Just finished a family game of Mexican train dominoes. The holidays are here! #
- I5 south and I205 south are bumper to bumper outside of Portland right now #
We're heading to Portland this afternoon to spend Thanksgiving with some family. Technically, the festivities are in Coburg, but we'll be staying in Portland (on an extremely small spare bed I might add). We're looking forward to a trip to Powell's and all the other food-related places we like to visit in Portland (Otto's Sausage Kitchen, Marinepolis Sushi Land, etc etc). Oh yeah, and we'll eat turkey too!
It's been quiet time here at Scurvy Jake's Pirate Blog. Lorien was out of town for the last couple of weeks visiting her sisters in Texas, and I was buried up to my eyeballs with work. Fortunately, since Lorien was out of town it meant I could put in a lot of extra hours to get it all done. Unfortunately, that's exactly what I did.
It's all over now except for the loss of sleep. Which I expect never to make up.
- Lots of work to get done before tomorrow.
# - Almost caught up for work to start tomorrow. *sigh* So much for the weekend. #
- work work work, I'm such a fun guy #
- Just got this in the mail today: http://yfrog.com/7h6s7zj #
- More @woofoff goodness today #
- Going to see @greatbigsean tonight and Great Big Sea at the Bing Crosby theater in Spokane! #
- At the Bing Crosby theater waiting for @greatbigsean and Great Big Sea!! Woo! #
- Intermission time, Great Big Sea is rocking the house!! Thanks @greatbigsean! #
- Great Big Sea was awesome! Made it just in time to Dicks for hamburgers, last customers of the night #
- Just renewed my primary domain to mid-December 2012. Hope it wasn't a waste of time... #
- Just got back from Kevin Burke and Cal Scott concert in Spokane. Terrific music! Got a signed CD too! #
- Picked up Revolution! by @sjgames on my way to the concert. Played it at PAX a couple of months back, lots of fun! #
- Tired. Too much stress lately, not sleeping good. Plus, concerts! #
- I don't know what all the fuss is about. I LIKE the new retweeting feature. Makes more sense to me.. #
- BETTER: It's the best! @rosshorsley has a new word up at http://myfirstdictionary.blogspot.com/ and it's AWESOME! #
- Woah, sushi from Fred Meyer in Coeur d'Alene is much better than I thought it would be! Nice surprise! #
- RT @FakeAPStylebook: OUT: "Death toll." IN: "Current score." Brilliant! #
- So tired. Just barely made it to 5pm today. Need rest and relaxation. #
- Awesome! @adamsbaldwin has joined Twitter! #
- Glad PHP makes it easy to work with JSON objects. I wish they also did YAML though. I less than three YAML. #
- Loved the Flogging Molly intro to last nights' #SGU #
I've been fighting an error with my PHP installation in Windows with Apache related to loadable extensions. In my error log, I kept getting the errors:
PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:\\Program Files\\PHP\\ext\\php_mssql.dll PHP Warning: PHP Startup: Unable to load dynamic library 'c:\\Program Files\\PHP\\ext\\php_pdo_mssql.dll
Interestingly enough, if I ran PHP through the console, it loaded PDO and mssql just fine, the problem was only with the environment in Apache. Turns out the ntwdblib.dll wasn't being located by Apache. I could probably have added the PHP path to the environment variable PATH, but the easiest solution was to copy the dll to the Windows\System32 directory. A restart of Apache after that cured the problem.
- First Rock Band 2 song purchase: @jonathancoulton Re: Your Brains! Mega awesome! #
- Today is backup tape checkup day, woohoo! #
- Dear tape backup drive: COUGH UP MY TAPE NOW! #
- There's a garlicky smell in the office, at nearly 4pm. Crazy irregular eaters ruin my afternoon! #
- Wow! Playing music in Vista slows network performance: http://blogs.zdnet.com/hardware/?p=702 We've been tracking this problem for ages! #
- Long meeting yesterday. Much straightening out of concepts to do today. #
- Wondering why we're already retiring computers in the office with activated Windows 7 licenses. Sometimes people just don't think good. #
- Happy birthday! @neilhimself gets 362 milliWheatons (as established by @muskrat_john) in *birthday wishes*. Wow. #
- I have 0.17 milliWheatons in *followers* #
- Left my phone at home. It's going to drive me nuts today.. #
- Cow orker has a Droid phone. I have phone envy. Can't develop iPhone software without paying the Mac-tax.. #
- Ate 10 day old leftovers for lunch. Tasted great. Hope I don't get sick and honk all over my desk. #
- Disk 3 of Firefly at Wade and Ellie's tonight. I'm pretty sure they're hooked now.. #
- Wish I could be at @Powells today for They Might Be Giants. And books! #
- Reading briefly about quaternions: don't ask. #
- Getting some Garlic Jim's pizza for dinner! #
- Installing Apache server on a machine that already has IIS. Why? Because it works better. And it's easier to configure. #
- Converting horrible, nasty ASP code to nice, neat, clean, short PHP code. #
- Ah! PHP to ASP conversion for index page complete. Same length, twice as robust, full suite of error-handling. Not to mention easier to read #
- Need slurpee to dull the pain of the work day.. #
- It's cold outside. Below freezing cold. Well, I guess it *is* November... #
- Well, back to work. #
- Converting more ASP files to PHP. I never want to see the ASP code ever again. #
- Time to turn in. Late night tonight, lots of work to get done tomorrow. Then off to Wade & Ellie's again for the end of Firefly! #
- Made of AWESOME: @sjgames zombie dice game announced today, Friday the 13th. Price will be $13.13! http://www.sjgames.com/dice/zombiedice/ #
- so...much....work! #
- Is it bad that I think I would have a productivity boost if I had 3 monitors instead of 2? #
- Dear PHP: I love you because you support Heredoc text. Sure, PERL invented it, but only elitist snobs write in PERL.. #
- I'm surrounded by coworkers that have never seen Firefly. Have compulsive urge to fix that. #
- I was lucky enough to get the chance to play Nanuk at Pax2009 with the crew of @sjgames. It's a superbly fun party game for up to 8 people! #
- WHAT? It's only 4PM? I could have sworn it was 5! #
- Need..more..pistachios! @getcrackin has really good ones. Got a big bag at home, it won't last much longer. #
- Final disk of Firefly with Ellie and Wade tonight. Then 'Those Left Behind.' Then Serenity. Then we're done #
- Baking a loaf of sourdough at Wade and Ellie's. About 20 minutes left. Smells really good. #
- A 5 year old just asked me if I was "texting." I feel old. #
- Just took the bread out of the oven! http://yfrog.com/41isej #
- I got a wave while watching Firefly tonight. I feel totally badass now! #
- Looks like most of the snow from yesterday has melted #
- The Prisoner remake with Sir Ian McKellen debuts on AMC tomorrow. Hope it's even better than the original. #
- Need a break. Brain wandering everywhere and can't concentrate on work.. #
Tomorrow I'm sequestering myself in my office. I have far too much work to do and so little time to get it done. There are no less than three projects waiting for me when I finish my current one. And everything is top priority right now, too.This always happens when we get closer to releasing a new version of our software, though. Plus, it's easier to put some more hours in when Lorien is out of town…
I have a little clip from last Saturday's jaunt to O'Shay's pub for some live music by my good friend John. Now with authentic pub background noises for free!
Did I mention that later this month I'm going to see Great Big Sea and Kevin Burke and Cal Scott in Spokane?
Today is Scott Walker's birthday. He is one of my oldest friends, and by a freakish coincidence we are now related by marriages. My stepsister's husband is Scott's brother-in-law.
Happy birthday, Scott!
I tried to like this book. I really did.
I stopped reading it around page 120 because I ran across the third case of the author using then instead of than. It completely took me away from the story each time it happened, and by the third time I was done.
How an author, and a popular one, can get away with such sloppy work is beyond me. I wonder if anyone even looks at his work. Certainly neither he nor his editor use a proofreader, not to mention the fact that the editor couldn't have read the book without uncovering the problem.
There was another error, but it was a simple typo: the word everything was spelled wrong. Even a spellchecker would have caught that error!
I give this book 0 stars for failures on many levels. The publisher should have caught the errors. A spellchecker should have been run. The author shouldn't have made the mistake in the first place.
- Made cilantro and lime chicken fajitas again, they were terriffic! #
- Jeff brought me more diet pepsi. w00t! #
- Caramba! Today is the Mexican Day of the Dead! #
- Dear Microsoft: I hope you die in a fire for unleashing ASP on the world. "checked" is for radio buttons?? "selected" doesn't work?? #
- Meh #
- Restoring files from backup tape that an overzealous manager deleted on a cleanup spree.. #
- Coworker's daugher's funeral is scheduled for 11am Thursday. So sad. #
- Am I the only one having trouble retrieving @reduced RSC podcast feed? #
- Well this day's over. Wish I got a little bit more done, but it was a busy one... #
- Just got a whole bunch more work dropped on my plate. The project that was "almost done" is now "nowhere near done." #
- Got the latest @FootStompin podcast to listen to, yay! #
- Somehow...I am 3 days too late... http://www.corazonfairtrade.com/maskluchalibre1.html #
- Wish I could alias all my google queries to add '-daniweb.com', their website is ultra-annoying and always comes up.. #
- I really love my #TiVo, just wish it worked better with satellite tv... #
- Dinner at Ellie and Wade's tonight. I hear they have a new car. #
- Unsubscribing RSS feed for @itmademyday made MY day. The spelling errors are atrocious! #IMMD #
- Ugh. Trying to get the new version of PHP to work with IIS and MSSQL is not fun.. #
- Holy cow it's noon already??! #
- I love working with XO Communications. My reps are fantastic people. #
- Sarah (a cow orker) has a new HP netbook, it's pretty nice. Very small and super long battery life. #
- Fixing the primary buffer panel so it doesn't fall off. #
- Oh Microsoft how I hate you sometimes.. MSSQL support for PHP is horrendous. You want me to use ASP, but it just...sucks... #
- Using PHP's PDO and ODBC drivers work SO much better. #
- Time to wrap up at the office and go home. So much work, though... #
- Coworker's daughter's funeral is today at 11. #
- Just realized I didn't exactly wear a funeral-appropriate shirt today.. Good thing I got a coat in my car.. #
- No....more......meetings! #
- That part about no more meetings I mentioned? I jinxed it. 2x weekly meets have been moved to DAILY meetings. YAY! [/sarcasm] #
- /me runs 'sys 64738' on his brain.. #
- Watching some awful Sasquatch movie while Lorien is out. Gonna do a lot of this in the next couple weeks #
- Whole army of sasquatches came out at the end, but I saw it coming #
- Watching the new V now #
- Morena Baccarin looks pretty good with short hair. Then again she'd look fine with no hair.. #
- Back at the workplace. The place of work. One of the places I work anyway... #
- Happy birthday to @TraceBeaulieu (one of the MST3K guys)! #
- Got the new WordPress 2 for iPhone #
- So HOW LONG is the 40th anniversary of Sesame Street, anyway? #
- Printing out a book list for Lorien while she's in Texas. She leaves tomorrow, early. Real early. #
- Book list = "list of books to find" while at half-price books in Houston. #
- Why are people always trying to get up in my SSH servers? Don't they know it just gets them banned?? #
- Annual review postponed while boss gets lunch. #
- Review time over. Back to work! At least I still have a job...
# - Off to Keith and Susan's for a fun night of fun. And fun! #
- Forgot to burn a DVD before I left work. Burninating it now.. #
- I'm going to need a new computer soon at work. But I hate the migration.. #
- My work computer stopped responding, have to visit the office and get it working again #
- At O'Shays pub on Coeur d'Alene getting dinner and live Irish trad music! #
My work machine was down this morning, I'm not sure when it happened, but my UPS and computer were both powered down. Things are coming back online now.
Today is my sister-in-law Arwen's birthday. She turns 30 today!
I just had an awful vision of a horrible, doomed future where Google leaves Sesame Street 40th Anniversary images up all year long like a Disneyland anniversary. *shudder*!