• move database services to the new cluster machine, in a VM
• rebuild the database to passwd-file converter, to be triggerable whenever a user is added to the database
• set up passwd-file replication (rdist?)
• finish user management in the control panel system
• Start clustered web services finally

There’s some fun stuff.

Day 16: 1660 words

• edit my novel
• play with parser combinators more
• re-learn objective C
• package the latest GNUStep for PLD, and see if I can’t make the packaging more gnustep-theory-friendly
• Find a ruby grammar and make a trivial ruby pseudo-interpreter in ObjC
• investigate StepTalk more
• play with GNUstep GUI programming internals more clearly.
• See if Gobject and libObjC are even close, and see about merging the runtimes.

Day 13: 1615.

Day 14: Zilch.

Day 15: 1589, plus adding 509 revising Day 10 a bit to make it more intimate.

Day 7: 1277

Day 8: 1641

Day 9: 1038

Day 10: 1989

Day 11: 1109. Part 1, Part 2

Day 12: 818

Thanks a bunch, myriad_rainbows.

Ten things that make me happy?

1. Crossing 10k in NaNo.
2. FAke chicken noodle soup
3. Cajun salmon and eggplant sandwiches
4. Wireless in Linux working a lot better
5. baileyjordan
6. serishema
7. shawnaree
8. elliotpp‘s “Oh hai, I fixed ur voting systems” T-shirt
9. yayforqueers.net
10. Cheese

Dyslexic student expelled over toy gnu.

Thanks to my friend Kyle for pointing this one out – Wyoming Elementary School Eliminates Homework.

Potato-dill soup

sauté one shallot in butter, add ½ cup chopped parsely. Cook for a few minutes. Add water, 1½ cups of cubed potato and a tablespoon or two of dried dill. Boil until the potatoes are soft.

Add a teaspoon or a bit more of salt, a quarter cup of nutritional yeast.

I think it’d go great with steamed salmon. I’ll have to try that next time.

Day 4: Part 1, part 2, part 3. 2185 words.

Day 5: zilch

Day 6: 740 words.

Time to go home and work on day 7 soon.

Polis is down for a somewhat extended count, as it’s doing an intensive check on a huge disk.

It’s going to take about ten hours.

Breakfast was scrambled eggs on toast. Nothing fancy there, though the cumin I put in the eggs was fresh ground.

Lunch was spinach, chickpeas, feta, mozzarella and onions.

Dinner was fragrant lentils and rice, fragranced with pepper, coriander, cumin and cardamon. Topped with browned onions and yoghurt.

Yes, I am nuts. But then, if I can avoid a tax audit, maybe I can do NaNo! So, based on previous storyline, here goes:

Day 1: 1063 words.

Day 2: Zilch. Work sucks sometimes.

Day 3: 2286.

So I’ve got a crush on a cute and geeky girl from New Zealand. Maybe if she ends up in the US for a couple years, we’ll hang out.

I have no costume for the party tonight. I’m probably going to feel lame. Again. Oh, well. It didn’t matter terribly long last time. And this time, baileyjordan will be there! And his costume rocks.

Now, if I could just get the hotel phone server that’s been crashing off my bench.

He’s coming!