4 Jan 2001 RoUS   » (Master)

early post meridian, EST

ApacheCon
The Big Feather finally arrived from the UK, after sitting in US Customs because no-one could figure out how to supply an invoice for it. Customs was threatening to destroy it soon, so I faked one up with MS Word. {sigh} Bureau-rats.. It got broken on the way to the UK, but the return trip didn't make it any worse. A little white glue, some bamboo skewers, black marker.. It's about 2-3kg; excellently crafted firmfoam.

Some interesting news may soon be forthcoming on the ApacheCon front; it'll be announced on the announcement list if all works out.

Perl and DBI and..
I finally got off my arse long enough to finish scripting something to convert data in a GDBM file into MySQL. All praise DBI! Now the Web access stuff needs to be converted, Perl -> PHP. Then I'll give more details here for the insanely lifeless. :-)

Advogacy
{sigh} I need to find some time to go through the Advogato user list and do some people-research and possibly some certs. More publishers and editors after me to write stuff; there are certainly enough projects being offered me to make writing a full-time job. Now, if only the benefits and pay were as nice as those IBM is currently providing me..

self-improvement
I've pretty much determined to take the plunge and migrate one of my systems to qmail. Now, should I do it to my laptop, or one of my desktops? If I do it to the laptop, it'll force me to use it -- but it may also torque me off if a lack of understanding on my part gets in the way of some important mail activity..

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