Ugh. too much work, and too much hangover.
(Oh, and a totally incompetent hardware supplier)
So what I'd love to do at this point is just to leave until everything was sorted out to the point where I can do the stuff I need to, but instead it looks like I'm going to be working pretty much every day next week excluding xmas day itself. fun fun.
Hackery
Been bouncing ideas for a decent task tracking system; accessable from multiple computers via different mediums, ie web/rss/xml-rpc. I've not found anything that does something remotely like this, and it's something that i badly need. It especially needs to be able to have multiple task streams.
Also looking at porting gtetrinet to OS X natively, rather than getting my fix from the gtk version running in XDarwin.
The other thing I want to do is fix up a system for allowing Apache's Include directive to ignore certain file patterns in a runtime configurable way.
Work
I need to write (and I can't believe no-one has done this in a way that works correctly) a module for apache that limits concurrent connections. throttle claims to do it, but watching its output there appears to be no relation between its behaviour and the output in server-status. Also, throttle bumps the load average by a couple of orders of magnitude. Which is a problem.
Oh, and having something other than basic authentication for mod_auth_pam would be nice. And easier than the other problem...