Older blog entries for louie (starting at number 105)

Let me be the first to offer Rob Love congratulations. And hopefully the last to offer him a job.

It's pretty sweet when you post a page with a 'patches accepted' text, and within a few days someone sends you a patch. :) Thanks, Tony.

26 Apr 2004 (updated 26 Apr 2004 at 07:13 UTC) »
  • Got to learn a little about left and inner joins today. Result is a patch query page that is dog slow but works. [Later] Sr. Willcox and Rob Adams goaded me into adding some indexes tonight instead of sleeping, and it totally paid off- queries went from ~30 seconds to ~3 seconds.
  • Triplets of Belleville ruled, as did some of the Sonoma County wines from our wine tasting.
  • Finally also saw Rashomon- more rocking there.

Random bits:

  • The Green Party of Canada is going to create their party platform for the next election via a wiki. Holy Shit. I hope some deliberative democracy folks are being given access to the diffs as they happen.
  • mofo.com is not what you'd think it would be.
  • Pipka: I apologize.
  • My data is not as hosed as I thought it could be, but I did lose all the talks I've ever given and a fair chunk of work stuff. I went from four copies of that directory to none in around 24 hours. Spectacular.
  • Going to a wine tasting tonight at The Kendall. Should be fun.
  • In my continuing quest to take mini-vacations where I listen to smart people, I'm spending most of the weekend doing pre-reading for ilaw.

It is not a good day when you're working until 4am, and your wakeup call is a reminder you've forgotten a 10am meeting. It is a worse day when your backup restore tool starts segmenting unexplainably. It is a much, much worse day when you rm -rf on the wrong machine, deleting something like 20% of the backup before you wonder 'why is this taking so long?' I think I'll have some bruising on my hand from hitting the wall. Hopefully it was only the incremental backups and metadata that were lost and not the main backup, but it is a bit hard to figure out exactly ATM. :/ If anyone needs me, I'll be the one over in the corner screaming.

More time spent talking to smart people today at Sloan School, including a couple RH folk. I talk to really, really smart people all the time, of course, but a new group of smart people stretches your brain in totally different ways, which is awesome. I think maybe if I had my way I'd sort of just stew in a mix of regularly rotated ridiculously smart people all the time, mostly just sitting in a corner while they talked and occasionally trying to ask an intelligent question. Would be a lot of fun. Sort of like GUADEC, year round, with topic changes. :)

Met some really interesting people today at MIT. Hopefully they'll find me interesting when I talk to them in eight hours.

Brutal but fairly productive 10 hour meeting today. Oy.

Spent a tiny portion of the weekend playing with xchat-gnome. Something lots of people have talked about, someone finally went ahead and did. Very cool.

<DV> someone blogs please, my Internet TV has been showing the same program for the last 10 hours or so ...

11 Apr 2004 (updated 11 Apr 2004 at 04:05 UTC) »

Just saw a brilliant performance of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, on a set inspired by Escher, with a smart 'icing' of The Clash as everyone left the theater. Everyone in Boston should go see it. And if you're a Lessig fan, ponder the cultural sampling going on all over the place only between acts, for your own sanity.

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