Been a long time since the last update. I’ve been really wondering whether it’s worth it to keep updating this thing, actually, since so few people read it. But anyway. Not that much happened last week. It rained like hell last Wednesday while I was getting off the bus, but the rain kept up for [...]

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Anyway. The big excitement this weekend was getting everything, including accelerated 3D, working right with nouveau on my superannuated nVidia card. It took some fooling around, and manually downloading and compiling libdrm and Mesa. It did work, though it was a bit more involved than the Gallium documentation for accelerated 3D on nVidia cards made [...]

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Wednesday had a bunch of stuff at work, including a very long meeting that wasn’t really all that productive. Ah well. I mentioned that Steve, Stephanie, and I were planning on getting Popeye’s chicken for dinner, and Patrick waxed eloquent about how good food from there was. So Stephanie picked up the chicken, and when [...]

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Well, the stock market sort of barfed on Tuesday, but what can you do? Not much. Work wasn’t all that fun. Garrett’s peeved at the company and the whole development process, and said as much during today’s meeting. It doesn’t really matter to him; he’s quitting and moving to California. I got TV-out working (mostly) [...]

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Monday. <SARCASM> Always a good day. </SARCASM> Well, at least it wasn’t too bad. I did a bunch of ordinary work stuff. Things are probably not going to be quiet and normal for a while, though. Jeff’s taking early retirement in May, Garrett’s quitting and moving to California in June. These things will mean more [...]

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Anyway. Friday, there wasn’t a heck of a lot going on, because I had the day off since I was on call all last week. I spent a lot of that time petting Moira, reading Anansi Boys, and after eating dinner, went over to Stephanie’s to watch the last episode of Firefly, disc 2. (I’ve [...]

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Snoopy Rock! This required some post-processing, but I think it turned out OK. Monday was back to work. Five tons of things had happened. I didn’t get much of a chance to work on anything new, because I was busy fixing all the stuff that had broken and I didn’t get a chance to fix [...]

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Another loooong week. The bus strike here in Phoenix/Tempe made it worse, since instead of riding the bus, I had to drive 2.5 miles to the light rail park-n-ride. This took about 20 minutes longer than taking the bus did. So I had less time than usual all week. Had Rock Band 3 on Wednesday [...]

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There was a reasonable amount of stuff going on. But anyway. Friday, I had the day off work, since I was on call the previous week. This was fun. I slept in, made good coffee, catered to Moira, and did some reading. Saturday, I’d planned to go to the Renaissance Faire with Stephanie, Zach, and [...]

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As usual, it’s been a very long, tiring, and full set of days. Too much has happened to write it all down. Wednesday, someone did a DROP DATABASE on a production database that was in use. Fortunately, this wasn’t one of the insanely important databases. We still had to scramble for the backups and retrieve [...]

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