Day 2 at Integrum. I’d have posted before now, but I haven’t really had time. The evening was spent setting up my various accounts (they use web apps for everything) and hanging out with Diana. (Jeremy has the cold that won’t go away, and it’s stressing her out a lot.)
I think this place is gonna be a good fit. Gamers everywhere, and they have similar ideas about development practices. Learning the ropes is gonna take a little time (whatever you might expect, OSX and TextMate aren’t an easy transition), but I’ll get the hang of it. I’ll be a Mac snob in no time. More details as I have time to post ‘em…
Read more...SMSed a bunch of people to get out and vote; a bunch have already responded that they’re done.
I hear poll lines are huge in Phoenix; Mesa’s less so. Moot point for Diana and I, as we’re signed up to get ballots by mail. (Arizonans can request that service here.)
Read more...My boss just called me into his office to meet someone - I guess his interviewee is currently working at my old company, and has worked with a bunch of my old Perl libraries. He had been looking forward to meeting me, because a lot of his Perl knowledge had been gleaned from working with my code.
I’m probably one of the Valley’s foremost remaining experts on Perl 5. Not that this is something to be particularly proud of; it’s basically a dead language. Still, it’s nice to know your code is being studied and used.
Read more...This might account for that fighter jet purchase...
Google Tutor points out that Google has added a clause to their robots.txt:
User-agent: zombies Disallow: /brains
But it seems to me that there’s not much to worry about, because when I access google.com/brains, I get:
www.google.com/brains - does not exist.Read more...
DOD: $514 billion. DOE: $59 billion.
Death and Taxes chart: 2009 federal discretionary budget
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