Checked into a few of the Observer level people I happened to notice in the recent diary entries list and marked them up as Apprentice as they seem to be working away at various open source / free software projects - well done those people.

I almost didn't cert one person as they had already certificated themself as a Master, which seems less than humble to me (I've never been a fan of self-promotion). However, the person in question is running a fairly neat sounding project, albeit 'pre-beta' at present, so after giving it some thought I set them to Apprentice in the end.

Speaking more generally now, I've never understood why anyone certs themself on Advogato - personally I don't think anyone can pass accurate judgement on their own standing within a community? Maybe it's just me... *shrug*

This quote (from the Hacker How-to) might be relevant: "when you play the hacker game, you learn to keep score primarily by what other hackers think of your skill (this is why you aren't really a hacker until other hackers consistently call you one)"

Life

This weekend I realised that my ex-girlfriend, who supposedly wanted to get back together with me (and whom I am still very much in love with, sadly), is in fact full of shit. On the down side, this was very depressing. On the plus side, having assimilated this knowledge, I can now hopefully start to move on...

Code

I haven't done anything interesting to YAWNS for ages, I've been too wrapped up in 'real life' which has been frankly unpleasant and extremely energy-consuming. As noted above, this seems to have drawn to an end now, so maybe I'll get back into hacking soon... I hope so.

I've been doing some neat little perl hacks at work this week, and it really does feel like I'm 'finding myself' again from underneath the layer of chaos and depression that I've been living under for a while now.

In codus veritas? ;)