Our company deploys code into production primarily from our version control system. I suppose all companies do, in some way or another. We endured a long hell with CVS and a far shorter stint in the purgatory of Subversion before we went into the heavenly light of Git. The way we do it is to tag various branches destined for certain groups of machines, archive a snapshot, then copy those out to where they belong. This is all partially automated...
We’ve been trying a “cash budgeting” system for a few months now, and it’s going pretty well. That is, it covers our variable expenses. I still use a bank account dedicated to relatively fixed expenses such as rent, utilities, membership dues, and minimum credit card payments. Most of those are paid automatically, pulled directly from the account. Unfortunately, there are two places where the system falls short. This isn’t so much because of any flaw in the idea of cash...
We had a great role-playing session Saturday night. I found a group through meetup.com and we’re playing the “Dawn of Defiance” campaign for the Star Wars Saga Edition RPG. It was mostly combat this week, but quite involved with some good character twists. The campaign has a section on Obsidian Portal. I took a lot of notes in anticipation of doing a writeup from my character’s perspective. Our GM gives us an extra 100XP if we do it, but I...
I sat in a pool of milk and wondered how it got on the floor. I knew I’d spilled it on the countertop trying to pour it into my cereal, but how did it get all over the floor? I stood, shakily, and saw that the half-gallon cardboard container of organic whole milk was tipped over, as was my cup of cereal. Milk was everywhere, soaking boxes, creeping under the toaster, dribbling into the sink. Wednesday afternoon, my psychiatrist upped...
And now for something completely different. No depression updates this time. A new “Hacking” category and a code tip on getting the full filenames in the menubar buffers list of Emacs. I use Emacs 23.1.50.1 on my desktop, mostly for the kinds of things (quick copy and pasting and scratch pads) vim’s modal model doesn’t make altogether easy. I’m not a vehement advocate of either editor, but of both. ;; Copied from /usr/share/emacs/23.1.50/lisp/menu-bar.el.gz (defun menu-bar-update-buffers-1 (elt) (let* ((buf (car elt))...
I ate one bite of the pesto, then went to check the jar. Grana Panado cheese. It seems to be an aged cheese, so I erred on the side of caution and didn’t eat the dinner, which kinda pissed me off because the kids hardly touched theirs, either, and thus my wife’s dinner-making effort was wasted tonight. The one bite doesn’t seem to have done anything. “Thank God I only took a tiny [bite].” As I was Googling “Grana Panado”,...
The first four days are done. Tomorrow I start 10mg twice a day. Four days of that, then the (presumably) final thrice daily. I suppose I won’t really have 20mg in my system until tomorrow evening. So far, the only ill effects have been an upset stomach in the morning that goes away after breakfast and towards noontime. I’m keeping track of my food and drink intake at the MAOI Ingestion Log above. No “hypertensive crises” yet, but I’m being...
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