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Whew, a fun couple of days… On Monday I get home from work to be greeted by Maddy who says “Mom got hurt” and I then ask where Mom is… Seems Mom is on the couch with her foot elevated and covered with ice. There was an incident involving playing ‘freeze tag’ with the kids, falling over, and crawling to the house. So after examining it, and cosulting with a friend we decide a trip to the ER might be a good idea. So we load up the van, and head to the friend’s house, who offered to watch the kids while the female and I went to the ER. We get about 95% of the way to the friend’s house when BLAM! We blow a tire on the van. So after changing the tire we’re back on track… Luckily it was just a nasty sprain, no breakage, but she’s on crutches for a week. Dang…

So I stay home Tuesday to care for the female, and get new tires for the van. See, I can’t get to work anyway since we’re riding on the spare and the transmission in my car went bye-bye a week ago. So anyway, I take the kids with me to get new tires. A process that ended up taking roughly 4 hours. Which is roughly 3.5 hours longer than it should take… Anyway, we got new tires and the van rides fine now. Oh, and I find out my car is finally fixed. Of course we can’t go get it because the female can’t currently drive, crutches and all that… Note: I may need some corporate sponsorship to manage the repair payments of both vehicles in one week.

Can I complain about all of this? Not really, a bad day at home, consisting of 4+ hours to get new tires, is still better than a good day at work. If that tells you anything…

The name seems to be Blog, and it seems to have neat stuff…

Sorry, but so far I have no commentary (witty or otherwise) on the MacWorld Expo announcements… look elsewhere for that kind of thing, it shouldn’t be hard to find…

I tried to explain RCS to someone today. They said it sounded great and asked how much it costs. I said it was free. They asked if it was any good. I said yes, and that it had been in use for probably 10 or 15 years. They wondered how it could be free if was so good when you often pay so much for other (crappy) software. At this point I tried to explain the concept of open-source software. I did explain that using RCS is not the easiest thing in the world. (Usually powerful tools are not extremely easy to use.) I demonstrated how to check in a file. At this point the person became slightly agitated, and walked away making a comment about having to be ‘checked in’ somewhere if they had to do that everytime they modified a file…

Actually RCS is 20 years old according to the rcsintro man page…

I finally got around to getting MySQL and perl talking to each other properly on my OS X box, what with the proper modules and so on… It’s something I should have done last year, ah well… Let the fun begin…