Posted on
by
  • Up rather late. Toasted waffles for breakfast. Mmmm.
  • Finally shaved my “winter” beard. I wanted to give my face some time to breathe before I grow my hockey playoff beard.
  • Spent the afternoon getting organized for our first “joint filing” tax return. Turns out that getting married was a sound financial move.
  • Dinner with Emily and Greg at OTB Bicycle Cafe. The portabella panini was excellent, as was the Tröegs Nugget Nectar that washed it down.
  • Finally saw The King’s Speech. Geoffrey Rush and Colin Firth were terrific, but I don’t know about “Best Picture”. It didn’t have nearly as many explosions as The Expendables.
  • My face is cold.

Posted on
by
  • Up rather close to on-time. To work.
  • Bagel Friday, a sacred tradition in our office, was observed.
  • Read up on possible DMA/EDMA issues. Started to doubt my earlier conviction that this is where my driver problem lies. Turned my attention to the possibility that the data transmission timing is off from the get-go.
  • Drank a glass of East End Snow Melt at the end of the work day and suddenly realized that my stomach troubles were gone. Truly it is the nectar of the gods!
  • Leftover Chinese food for dinner followed by Exit Through the Gift Shop with Emily

Posted on
by
  • Woke up feeling much better. Actually made it to work.
  • Caught up on email. I’m on far too many mailing lists at work.
  • Driver issue continues to elude me. Could be a problem of DMA interaction. That means another 75-page PDF to read tomorrow.
  • Skipped the gym due to residual stomach issues, but walked half a mile to get Chinese food with my wife. I’m not sure if the math works out but I’ll take it.
  • As is my custom at Alpha 3 I upgraded my desktop at home to Ubuntu Natty (and installed gnome-shell from the Gnome 3 PPA to be fair).
  • Watched The Big Bang Theory with Emily while coding on a hobby project that will likely never see the light of day.

Posted on
by
  • Woke up, still feverish and with a nasty headache to boot. Back to sleep.
  • Woke again around 11. Fever and headache gone. Nausea mostly subsided. Decided to test my digestive mettle with a grilled cheese sandwich. No ill effects.
  • Spent most of the afternoon on the couch playing PlayStation while covered in cats.
  • Emily came home showing off her new phone. LG Optimus w/ Android. Rather nifty phone. The StatusNet app seems to work pretty well.

Posted on
by
  • Woke up a little late, feeling queasy. Decided to go to work anyway. Barely caught my bus.
  • Sent an email to driver customer in an attempt to sync up our environments and find why solution that works for me doesn’t for him.
  • Nausea continued throughout the morning. Decided to go home at lunch.
  • Laid on couch watching MST3K and Arrested Development (yes, finally) drifting in and out of consciousness. Tried to eat dry Corn Chex, but my stomach was having none of that.
  • Had to skip guitar lesson. Poo.
  • Finally took my temperature and found out I have a slight fever. This does not bode well. Emily’s plague week started in similar fashion.

Posted on
by

Knowing full well that writing is one of my many shortcomings while at the same time one of the skills a great programmer should posses I’ve decided to start a little exercise to make myself write at least a little every day. The inspiration for this exercise comes from Michael Meeks and his daily bullet-point summaries.

  • Awakened around 5:00 AM by a loud, booming thunderstorm. While I am a big fan of thunderstorms I would appreciate it if from now on Mother Nature was more respectful of my sleep schedule.
  • Bus stop wait was lovely. Humid but warm. Arrived at work, broke my fast with a stale bagel and some coffee. Plowed through email.
  • Received info from a customer about a possible cause of a bug in the driver I wrote for them. This was immensely helpful in (finally) fixing this bug. Sent a patch.
  • Lunch at Chinatown Inn. Delicious and speedy as always.
  • Began packaging work for another customer. This looks simple, which means it probably isn’t.
  • Received word that the patch mentioned earlier did not work as well on the customer’s board as mine (supposedly they are identical). This is one for tomorrow.
  • Home then to the gym.
  • Home again, sore, and practiced for my guitar lesson tomorrow. Still haven’t gotten over the whole “do homework only the night before it’s due” thing. At this point I feel it’s a hopeless cause.

Posted on
by

There is a tradition on Twitter called “Follow Fridays” in which folks list a few interesting people they follow on Fridays to help spread the word about people who are worth listening to.

Evan Prodromou, the founder and CEO of Status.net has built upon that tradition to create what he calls Federated Friday. Thanks to a bunch of protocols that allow websites to communicate with each other (slickly named the “Federated Social Web“) users of the Status.net service (including identi.ca) can follow the updates of users on a variety of social networking sites, including Google Buzz and Tumblr. Evan uses Federated Fridays to promote the Federated Social Web initiative as well as to bring attention to folks he thinks are worth following.

In the spirit of furthering open web standards and because I think it’s a really neat idea I’m going to jump on the Federated Friday bandwagon and share some of my more interesting FSW subscriptions. Here they are, in no particular order: