Sickly child
Today is my 31st birthday. It has been overshadowed by a sickly animal, the new dachshund we got this week (we are going to call her Molly). I am very worried about her, so we're going to the vet at 5pm.
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ShutOff 2000
Having lost all but one version of the source code for ShutOff 2000, I re-released it today, ten days early, as a point release (2.8.3). 2.8.2 fixed a problem with date formats across different timezones, so I just re-applied those changes to the 2.8.1 code-base, plus a couple of other minor enhancements.
Woof
We got this today.
So it begins
The African National Congress, the ruling party of South Africa, has amended the SA Constitution to increase the number of members in the National Executive Committee, reportedly to increase the number of women in high office.
Reviewing a time-honoured device
My “Good Morning Silicon Valley” newsletter came with a link to a really inspiring review today. I highly recommend visiting the page to have a look.
Going wireless
Sentech, Linksys, Airport. We're wireless, baby. Now if only I can get my WLAN card to work on my PC, we could lose the switch too.
Post-mortem
My email is gone (well, a large chunk between May and November), and I've only got an older version of the ShutOff 2000 source code (2.8.1, which is one point release old, and I know what I changed), but the rest is recoverable, or recreatable.
Two down, one to go …
My brother got married yesterday, to a lovely girl (woman) called Claudi. The venue was awesome, as was the food and the service (both the church and the restaurant service). Harrison's on 12th, in Rivonia, gets two thumbs up. I even proposed a little toast to my mother and the bride and groom.
Darth Sidious Speaks the Truth
It's not often that I agree with the Pope, so I've decided to blog about it, naturally. We both dislike the commercialisation and consumerism of Christmas.
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Assuming my backups work (I still don't have a stable system to test), and assuming I can't recover my two months of data loss now, I have some software to rewrite. Yay, etc.