Older blog entries for thom (starting at number 28)

dyork Congratulations to you and your wife.

The "getting beaten for diary entries" entry
Hacking:So Apache 2 went GA which was very cool. Congrats to all the apache folk for a very nice codebase. Happily, I was able to get Debian Packages uploaded by the time the news hit slashdot, and the number of emails I've been getting has been increasing rapidly. I won't be uploading them to Debian 'proper' until after May 1 at the earliest, so plenty of testing yet!
Life: is pretty good - saw Garbage at the weekend with paulr, they were awesome, great gig. Still unemployed, sadly, but got a couple of bits and pieces to tide me over so it's not so bad...

Wee. Sending this using perl's Frontier::Client module just to be different.
Since I'm learning Java at the moment - and writing servlets while I go - a bit of perl is welcome relaxation.
And now I can write my diaries in vim! Hurrah!

So, still unemployed, barring some access programming I have to do for my first employer.
The fact they haven't modified the db at all since I left (3 years ago) says more about what idiots they are, and not a lot about the quality of the db design by me (it was a 3am hack)

dyork: Go Great Britain ;-)

After a long talk to Greg Stein on IRC last night, I finally almost understand the black magic that apache2 uses as a build system. I'm deep in its guts right now fixing up a few things.
I advocated slef as a Debian New Maintainer last night - after all, it's his fault that I'm in this mess ;-)

Waiting is...

So, I'm expecting to hear about a job. Several hours ago, actually. Yesterday, to be more precise. (well, it was supposed to be yesterday, but they couldn't decide between me and someone else. Bah.) The job would start on monday, which'll be cool. Nice Perl/Java (Tomcat based)/SNMP/C/Linux development role. This means a lot of learning for me if I get the job - I've never used SNMP and my C and Java is marginal to say the least!

I've been exceptionally slack with Debian recently. I'm halfway through a big policy induced patch to Mail::Audit, and I still need to finish beating on Apacheconf and packages for Apache2. Plus I'm now an AM, but fortunately my first NM applicant has it all sussed out so it looks pretty easy from that respect.

I also keep meaning to get more involved with Subversion but the aforementioned lack of C and also of time - working 12 hour shifts in a factory really isn't conducive to writing code - has pretty well prevented that so far. Hrmmm

Hrm, so I'm now stood at a Samsung web terminal at Hong Kong International on my way home. This is not a situation that I'm entirely delighted about (going home, not the samsung web term) , but it's been brought about (of course) by that prime mover and shaker, cash. Oh, and wanting to see all my friends back home. And the fact that this way I make it home for the 6 Nations.

So yet again, I'm job hunting. Given how much I hate the whole process, I really should stay with one job for more than a year. I think I will, this time - there's no real incentive for me to leave lurking on ther horizon...

Have got some quality hacking on debian done during the flights so far, and I'm getting pretty happy with the standard of the apache2 packages. I also have the beginnings of an apache2 module packaging policy done, so it's going nicely.
I've also been whacking daniels's vhost-base package into FHS compliance - he seems to think it's something that happens to other people, but the diff is pretty small and clean so far...

jmason: travelling? I was in Sydney for ~6 months, went to Melbourne for two weeks, stayed in Byron for 3 days, then stopped in Brisbane for 7 weeks... Now I'm off back to Sydney... Some traveller, me. Where are you now, out of interest? email me if you fancy meeting up? thom (at) debian dot org
DanielS: who needs an Aussie license? I've got a UK license, I'm over 21, and that's all she wrote.

blah. get my laptop back wednesday. my folks are in hong kong right now buying funky shit. rah.

DanielS: I guess this is a diary entry then...
I'm currently living in Brisbane, and in an entertaining career change, am driving a Bus. For the hostel I'm living in, the Palace Backpackers.
Unfortunately, 'net access is pretty limited - I can barely keep up with my email, but I'm doing my best...
I get to Sydney in two weeks, and hopefully having some linux related work waiting for me, just to keep my hand in. Apparently Sony have fixed my VAIO - again - but as this is their third try this year I'm not holding my breath.

lkcl: dude, many many congratulations.

voltron: ithought bug! see my diary entry just below this. full report on the mailing list :)