the next step in the big refactoring was done tomorrow, now just the
big ugly one… the dep solver. Which aside from being super ugly,
is also the code that has the most changes since I made the inital
fork. So lots of refactoring and tree merging. Yay!

And in other linux related news, the Trilug mailing lists
are getting all weird again. I really need to unsubscribe,
the traffic is pretty heavy, and not that many posts interest
me anymore. In my 10 years on the net, I’ve only ever
had people assume I “speak for my employer” twice, and
both times was on trilug list. Someone seems to have
done the same for a coworker now. Whats the deal with that?

Top Ten New Copyright Crimes

Suspect that has already been on /. or the like, but I really try avoiding casting my
eyes upon /.

completely forgot about the Mike Watt show on Saturday… oh well.

went to Winston Salem for the Japan Air cd release party. Pretty
fun. Took Monday off and hung around.

Visited the Winston-Salem goodwill store while I was there. It’s
rather large. Picked up an electronic gadget with the intention
of circuit bending it.
It’s a little device designed to be used to take messages, and it
can store 4 ~20 second messages. I think it has interesting potential…

Looks like the 7.3 announcement is out. Cool.

To continue the habit of weird Black Sabbath related
links, Rondellus

more refactoring progress, trimmed 700 lines of python off of the completely
out of hand up2date.py. Of course, it’s mostly split into smaller files now, but
some of it has actually gotten a bit more OO. It makes my brain
hurt as I sit and attempt to figure out all the intermodule dependencies
in code whose main job it is is to solve dependencies. Visions of
module import graphs and tsorts make me feel all funny.

Wonder if the Mike Watt show at Kings tomorrow is going to sell out…
Wouldnt mind seeing that show.

got an idea bubbling in my head now… I want to hook up my atari
to some of the swirly music gear (some of the delays, the vortex, etc…)
and see what kind of madness I can brew up.

Community-Based Recording Studios: A Look into the Future.

A Linux Journal article about someone trying to start an org to help
fund and setup community owned and operated recording studios.

Dunno if I ever really thought of that as an urgent need, but
vaguely interesting nonetheless.

http://www.mindspring.com/~paul-slocum/synth.html

Synthcart. A syntheziser cartridge for an Atari 2600.

Wow.

Attempted to be a bit social and headed out to Kings for Zombie Room/NPAV.

Walked in, talked to moonfl0wer, gretchen, and badger a bit. Had a bit of a discussion
about the “it’s a small world” feel of Raleigh at times (at times, it seems like just about
everyone knows someone I know). In this case, mainly talking about Joe L and Josh
from the “butt nekkid and flaming jesi” days.

Then of course, I walk over to watch NPAV, and realized the guy standing next to
me is joel, the new QA guy that works about 2 cubes away from me. He
is friends with James from NPAV. Point made.

Talked to joe for a while. Nice to seem him, since I don’t think I’d seen him
in 3 or 4 years. Pretty cool. Much geeking about music gear.

I should of probably stuck around and tried to be a bit more social, but
alas. Rumor seems to be that may be the last Zombie Room (and the first
I went to). See what happens when I show up? ;->

mildly productive day…

some more minor progress on the code refactoring. It kind of
helps that I basically already did this once a few months
ago but had to go back to the stable branch do to some
shifting schedules. Just got to compensate for 4 months
of bug fixing and features…

kicked off a couple more RHN errata update messages.
Looks like lots of folks use docbook and ppp.

Attempted to do something productive yesterday after work,
but ended up watching episode 2 of Frontier House