shaver

Today was quite the exciting day at work. I got rocking on the reorganization of our connection and export handling, and while I was hacking my brains out, machines were breaking left, right, and up the middle over on the development cluster. (We were trying to get a new kernel with some key networking fixes deployed so we could test and stuff.)

<behlendo> is there kernel trouble?
<phil> there will be in a minute

After a while, I’d accumulated enough changes in my local tree that every notification of a co-worker’s change caused paroxysms of terror — no matter how minor that change might be. I was certain that Andreas or someone was going to check in a wide-ranging cleanup and make me spend a week merging.

19 files changed, 237 insertions(+), 406 deletions(-)

Of course, I then hit a bit of a wall with the locking stuff, and by the time phil and I had sorted that out, I had found a nice recursive dependency in what I was doing. Lovely. I took a break to do a quick interview for a friend’s new “technology” column on CBC Radio, and then came back to ponder for a bit. I think I have a solution, and I’ll be able to check in on Sunday after we get back from another trip to Ottawa. Eric, on the other hand, was kicking all manner of ass today.

<eeb> 240064 pages (79758/s, 311.56Mb/s)

(He really means megabytes, not megabits.)

I was going to take my laptop to Ottawa this weekend, but I think I need a break. It’s been a long, brain-busting day, and I’m in need of a rest. I was too burned out to even play Quake this evening.