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I finally got a decent set of software pages up at this site. There are still a number of things that I need to do, such as play with the style sheets a little more so it doesn't look so much like Russ's site, possibly flatten the directory structure of the software archives, and set up a subversion repository with everything in it. But at least I've started.
I also started redirecting various things at wipt.org here or back to ACM. I intend to put up a page here at some point simply to document what's there and to state that the project is pretty much dead.
I also need to start thinking about what to do about this blog. I would very
much like to purge PHP from my life, but that's easier said than done. Since
Dreamhost has FastCGI support, I have been looking at perhaps moving to a
Python blog system. I found a list on the Python wiki. Of those, I think
that PyBlosxom looks the most promising. It uses flat files for storage,
so it would be analogous to the spin software I'm using to build the
software repository. My big hurdle would be importing all of my existing
posts. I have managed to preserve through two moves all of the blog entries I
have ever made, and I don't want to lose that. At the very least, though, I'm
going to work harder at organizing the posts on this blog into categories.
If you exclude the last six hours, I have accomplished nothing this weekend. And the last six hours only include upgrading my apartment from "disaster area" to "sty," switching to zsh, and putting some dotfiles in subversion.
OK, so that may not be entirely accurate. I did spend a significant portion of yesterday setting up a tracker and torrents for the Reflections Projections 2007 videos. It's probably too little too late, though. We were doing OK until Eric Traut's video got posted to Slashdot. Apparently people were all excited about his MinWin demo. I hadn't previously thought that MinWin was anything to get excited about, but whatever.
I need to find a good way to track personal projects and remind myself to do things. I considered setting up a personal Trac instance, but that may be a bit much. Right now I've just adopted Russ Allbery's reminder program.
Speaking of projects, I need to decide what to do about the Wipt project. I don't have the time to put in the vast amount of work needed to make it really useful. Hopefully, future versions of Windows will address the deficiencies that inspired the project in the first place. I think I'll end up killing it and redirecting to a personal repository at this domain for the packages I care about (namely, PuTTY and Vim).
Well, it's time for bed. I plan to start getting up earlier and working more normal hours.
Like that will happen.
It is rather insane how busy I have been lately. We're bearing down on some big deadlines at work, and as usual, struggling to make it. Then I am bombarded by IMs and email from the testers. Plus, the I-I found someone to take over responsibility for their website (yay!) who doesn't seem to grasp the concept of dynamic content (suck). Of course, the wonderful Chihost took the opportunity about a week ago to upgrade PHP on the server, and PHP being the high-quality product that it is, the entire site broke. I really wish PHP wasn't the lingua franca of webhosts. I would much rather use ASP.net or even Python. It's inescapable though. Hell, this blog runs on PHP.
But I digress. I finally got a doctor's appointment tomorrow morning (thanks, Mom). Then it's back to work to grind away on my last few work items. I'm a bit concerned though - the PM made some foreboding remarks today that something we didn't want to hear was on the horizon. But then I can go home and spend the weekend cleaning my apartment and working on personal/ACM projects.
Due to some wonderful timing with work deadlines, I won't be able to make it back for Conference this year, though I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. Tack really annoys the hell out of me. I did just book flights for my sister and me to go back to Illinois for Christmas, though.
Anyway, I have to do some prep for this appointment tomorrow, and then get to
bed early (8:40 AM appointment - yuck).
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