A rough account of what I did with Emacs recently.
June 28
Our cat now has email.
Actually, she's had email for a while (some loyalty card stuff is
registered with her address) but that email was routed to my
own. For completely spurious reasons it's now a separate
mailbox.
I'm assuming she already has her own FaceBook page and what not. I
don't ask her.
June 27
Obvious things I did not figure out (i.e. did not read about)
recently:
FitBit has sufficient workout tracking for amateur use
(timing, GPS, music if you need it, audio prompts) and if you've
got one of the HR-supporting models it's probably good enough
for pro-am use as well.
Git cannot edit past commit messages as each commit builds
on the integrity of the previous one - thus modifying the commit
message has the same effect as otherwise corrupting the
commit. I'm not sure I wholly agree with this, and I'd certainly
prefer it to be an option, but anyway. Everyone you ask about
this says, "git commit --amend" which only works at
the head of the git branch you're on (beacuse it's got no
descendants). Of course, there's nothing stopping you making a
branch at the point you want to "fix" the commit
message for, and beating the tree into your own liking that way,
and maybe some --force to hide the evidence.
If you put Mosh on an EC2 instance, don't forget it wants to
use a range of UDP ports, so you'll need to open up that
range.
Django URLconfs don't work anything like I thought
when you include them.
June 26
Now You See Me was
coming along nicely until the final reveal. Which was
RUBBISH. Don't bother with this movie, because when you get to the
reveal, you'll want to smash your TV.
Anyone got a recommendation for a new 55" plasma
screen?
June 25
Back from a week in Reykjavik and surrounds (last visit almost 9
years ago!). Managed to get a bit sunburned.
June 22
Taking advantage of some downtime to finish converting my RSS
toy to a Django app; I spent a good chunk of time trying to debug
a problem that turned out to be "Django's screwing up
converting your QuerySet into SQL", which was (a) frustrating
and (b) a thing I should have figured out faster, having
previously encountered it with Ruby/ActiveRecord, Java/Hibernate,
etc. etc. etc.
June 17
Woo, I bought a fitbit. This is after a year plus of
beta-testing one by having my brother wear it...
June 10
Still waiting on the DSPsrv.com box to show up on my doorstep
(actually office doorstep). Surprised I haven't had more queries
about its absence, or requests for backed-up data. Maybe I'll just
not bother setting it back up...
June 3
Got my bionic tooth fitted today.
DSPsrv.com update: so when the server initially started
complaining, it was because one disk in a 4-disk RAID5 array was in
an unhappy state. When the server fell off line two or three weeks
back, that was because a second disk had failed. RAID5 - 2 disks =
catastrophic data loss. As previously noted, I have a full backup
up to about a week before the server went permanently down, and
possibly have some additional data from a few days beforehand, but
realistically speaking there's a week of lost data. Additionally,
rebuilding the server in-place was going to be non-trivial for
handwavy reasons, so the server will be delivered Chez Waider for
a rebuild, which means it's probably going to be down for at least
another week. On the positive side, it will return to service as
soon as I can manage it.
"You can only save your backups on a network location on
Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Ultimate, and Windows 7
Enterprise.". Well screw you very much,
Microsoft.