Apparently there's been some kind of skirmishing going on in some Middle Eastern country lately.
Before you make your laptop run sshd listening on port 80, make sure you've shut down your Web server first.
Check the date for the meaning on that one.
Went into the District today to do the ticket exchange. Took way too f**king long. The only time I didn't have to wait long for a train was for the first train leaving my destination. OTOH, I just missed a train when getting to Greenbelt station. It didn't take long for another train to come, I guess, but it took forever for that train to leave.
Henry did not have kind words for my little scheme. Made me feel like crap. I guess I beat myself up a bit on that, but after I completed the exchange, I thought, you know, it may be that this is the absolute best thing that could have happened. I will never know; perhaps no one would ever know.
Well, one place I found on the Web said that "agreeance" is in fact a word, and that it means what you'd think it means. I have my doubts, however, that Fred Durst had verified the cromulence of the word before using it. And sometimes these dictionaries list every word they can find in print in a few major sources, so if some writer used it once fifty years ago, that's enough to put it in there. But what's wrong with good old "agreement", Fred?
I'm writing this from bed. Isn't that cool? Actually, I can't believe I haven't done this before; I probably have but I can't remember. I've definitely used this computer in bed once or twice, but I'm not sure if I had the ethernet cable hooked up at the time. I just thought to try it out because Vlad was telling me I should get a wireless card, and I started to wonder if it would make my home computing life any better. Well, the ethernet cable is a bit inconvenient, but if I can get to my bed (and to Henry's room), I can get anywhere. Just thought I'd write that before going out running.
Oh yeah, you're probably both[1] wondering what happened with my review. Well, after struggling, I gave myself mostly "meets expectations" marks with 2 or three "exceeds". I added a few comments here and there. When I went to the review (5 minutes late, after looking frantically (ok, not really frantically, but I felt I needed some kind of adverb there) around the building for where the review was, thinking conference rooms), my two managers gave me lots of glowing comments; I don't think they said anything negative like "X is one area where you could stand a little improvement". A little wimpy if you ask me, esp. having come from the military (not that there weren't plenty of commanders and supervisors who would never give negative reviews). But specifically, they were very grateful that I had come on to the DAPS project, noting that a lot of people resist being put on a project that's doing poorly (guess I must be naive to have accepted the change), and saying they felt I had contributed a lot since coming on to DAPS. They were also impressed that I had issues with the lack of coding standards and stuff.
[1] A gross exaggeration, I know
To keep my life exciting, I've installed one (1) non-default GTK+ (for GNOME2) theme. Crux. All the others either are not recognized by GNOME 2 or sound (or definitely are) boring. No NeXTstep-like themes available from Gentoo for GNOME2.
... is today. AAAAGH! And I didn't bring home the form to fill out and mull over... instead I'm writing to my stupid blog which no one reads...
THANK GOD FEBRUARY'S OVER!
The two days lost to snow were two days I had to make up at work. Well, I took one of the days as vacation (isn't that a rip-off?), so I only had to make up one day, but that was a real burden, since I only had 8 days to do it in, and the first day back the power went out at 5, when I still had 2-3 hours left for what would have constituted a full (extended?) working day, so I really had to make up 10-11 hours in 7 working days. Should have swung by on the weekend.