*laugh*

ok, while i understand the logic behind this change, i must say that the old error message is just the funniest thing ever.

this really does say something about my sense of humor, doesn't it...

Crap

ok, now for the record, i hate 'will and grace'. i think it's a shitty show, and it baffles me that it's on ALL THE FUCKING TIME. i also intensely dislike 'dance dance revolution', and it baffles me why it is so popular among geeky people everywhere.

but here i am, sitting on the couch, watching 'will and grace' (it's on between two shows i do like ('scrubs' and 'good morning miami' if you must know), and i'm insanely lazy), and there it is, they're in an arcade playing 'dance dance revolution'.

i just can't seem to escape either of them, can i.

It's Got Tabs!

so if you care, you've almost certainly heard about this already, but there's a new safari beta out, and it's damn cool. tabbed browsing is in (which was the primary reason i was alternating between mozilla and camino lately), and overall it seems quite nice. i'm going to try it out as my main browser again and see how it goes.

A Question...

so my sister just randomly told me that she reads this weblog, which is odd,since i didn't even know she knew it existed... anyway, it got me thinking, and now i'm curious who is reading this thing.

so if you don't value your anonymity too much, please leave a comment in this entry telling me who you are and how you found this site.

Lack Of Progress

so i've been super busy for the past few days. thursday night i went out with the guys from work for jaime's bachelor party, then friday and saturday i was up in troy for psiu's founders day (apparently i was elected 'alumnus at large' again, although i'm not sure how that happened), and then today i was back here for jaime and susan's wedding.

i'm damn tired, and i don't feel like i've acomplished anything on the nine million things i'm supposed to be doing, but hey, it was a fun weekend.

now back to doing laundry...

Neat!

so it appears we have a new pledge, and it's maureen, of chalk art fame, who i remember from rpi.rumor and the acm.

anyway, i'm just amused that even though i left rpi two years ago, and i did my best to be as antisocial as possible (outside of psiu) while i was there, and despite that somebody i vaguely know is pledging the house.

Just Freaking Perfect

so i just looked at the letter i got on monday from the leasing office at my apartment complex, and it turns out they want a response 60 days prior to the day my lease is up.

this would be fine, except that i didn't get the letter until monday, which is already less than 60 days from when my lease is up. even better, the letter is dated april 2nd, which itself is less than 60 days from when my lease is up!

argh! where do they find these people!

i am seriously going to have to look at finding somewhere else to live. this is just too insane. hopefully the semi-formed plan of finding someplace with eric and dave will work out. either way, i'm definately thinking about finding someplace other than here in the near future.

I Hate The STL

i don't find it amusing that i just ran into a compile error with some fucking STL shit, wrote the quick work around to do it without the STL, since it's NOT THAT HARD (tm), then got curious and started looking through the STL code to see why the error occured and what was going on, and discovered that deep down, like 3 files in and nested within like 12 templated functions, all prefixed with multiple underscores, i found exactly the same code i had written. why the fuck do i even bother?

oh right, to quote jj: "yeah, but it's generic".

good for it. it can be as generic as it fucking wants to be, but i'm still going to write a god damned for loop to calculate what i should be getting from std::distance, because 9 times out of ten, i will spend more time figuring out why the STL approved "right way" of doing things won't fucking compile than it takes to just write the damn for loop.

The Joys Of Networking

so i've been reading about zeroconf a lot lately, since it's the underlying technology for apple's rendezvous, which is damn cool.

yesterday, i downloaded a copy of mdnsd, and was so horrified at it's code that i started hacking on my own. it doesn't actually do anything yet, and in all likelyhood it will never get further than my laptop's hard drive before i get bored and move on, but there has been at least one positive thing that has come out of this random hacking binge.

it turns out that apr doesn't currently have any multicast support, and since i wanted to use apr for my new toy, i had to take a go at implementing some. i've got the beginnings of it up and running (just enough to join and leave a multicast group), and i just sent it off to the dev list to see if people are in favor of me continuing work on it, since there are several more things that will need to be done if i want real multicast support in apr.

in the process of adding this support, i've learned a bit about how multicast works (it provided a good excuse to go back and dig out unpv1e2), and i've dug into the apple open source rendezvous
implementation, which is way cooler than mdnsd. even so, i may still continue work on my implementation, just for educational purposes, and because it would be nice to have one that integrated nicely with apr.

I Should Do This More Often

so i had dinner with tray tonight, since she was passing through on her way home to NJ. it was nice to get a chance to actually hang out and talk, since 90% of the time we see each other it's in the middle of a party of some sort, and one or both of us are too drunk to be able to hold a coherant conversation.

yet another reason for me to get the hell out of stamford and back to boston.

i wonder how many of those it's going to take...