The power button on my PC refused to work last night. Fiddling with the connections got it going, but then it turned off in mid-boot.
Finally got it running, but I shut it down for the day while I’m at work, lest it catch fire or something. Diana keeps telling me to quit messing with this home-built crap and get a Dell or some such. Maybe she’s right.
Read more...Finally made curry rice for Diana. She loved it, but man, I’d forgotten how much effort it was. Even with the (awesome) new knife set, cutting up the chicken and all those vegetables took nearly an hour.
I’m here at work chomping on (some of) the leftovers, though, and it’s still good. I have to remind myself that I wouldn’t have leftovers with fast food, and I’d still spend nearly as much time going and getting it.
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Diana, of course, sees fit to make fun of me whenever I leave a message with Jott. (Arguably with good reason.) And I, of course, have to respond to her. Guess Jott overheard, because tonight I found this in my mailbox…
> Jott To Self > > I want to jott myself.
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So I’m using Jott to send myself reminders now, but its speech recognition is less than perfect. Here’s a sampling of the e-mails that result…
Thursday and every Tuesday night take past trash out. Mark[?] Reminder, replace the battery. [unclear speech, please listen] Remind her very clean kitchen.
Doesn’t matter; anything’s better than waiting for Verizon’s voice mail menus.
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What’s been occupying me lately:
Ruby. Like, consuming my every waking moment. It’s as exciting as Perl was back in 1999, but unlike Perl, I already have an app deployed that an ordinary Windows user could install, with more to come.
Google Code. Sourceforge was pioneering, but this makes development something I want to do every day.
A Web service client I’m writing for work. It’s in Java, and the vendor’s forcing me to use janky protocols with janky libraries. I’ve been able to isolate the damage to two classes so far, but who can say what’s next?
God of War II. It’s not as polished as the first, but it’s still pretty damn good.
Disgaea 2. If you’ve never played a tactical RPG before, you’ll probably raise an eyebrow at this one, but I don’t care. It’s got depth and technique and it’s cute. You can even skip the storyline if you can’t stand it.
Dreamhost. Thanks to a discount code I scored 300GB of storage for $10 a month. (Twice the size of my hard drive at home.) I mainly want the shell, Web server, Subversion, and Rails. Shutting down my personal Apache at home without having to give up access to any of my files is a nice bonus, though.
Oh yeah, and the baby. Though mostly he just prevents me from concentrating on any of the above.
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