Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

Up late, no route to Boston ( broken atm5-0.core2.bos1.zen.harvard.net - not suprising Zen routing is topologicaly challenged ), no route to Mexico ( routing loop inside uninet.net.mx ), neither the fault of my ISP. Still at least no-one will be able to deliver any mail either.
Decided merging was too clever for anyone's good and arrived at default placeholders again, hacked them up quickly.
Added the builtin customize menu item to Evolution.
Finaly managed to extract my mail, via. South Carolina, off in't car to collect Mum, still throwing it all over the road. Grandma still appreciating the chocolates I gave her for Christmas.
More nice cleans from Dietmar to read.
Unapproved commit breaks Bonobo shock, got angry, flamage.
Nice letter from ApologetiX, very apologetic (doh).
Music group practice for Sunday morning.
Put a sheet on the bed Mum slept on top of last night ( various nasty pains militate against sleep ) and discovered a large screwdriver that she must have slept on. Recalled the story of the Princess and the pea with much hilarity.
Darin explained to me how xml-i18n-tools works; I had made some false inferences from the changes in moniker's Makefile, fixed it again again.
Commited Bonobo work, re-built everything.

Got letter from Cadbury's - Dairy Milk - Chocolate & A Half.

The Occupier,
[my address],
Dear Sir / Madam,
Thank you for your recent letter, details of which have been
transferred to the Consumer Services Manageer who will be writing
to you shortly.
In the meantime, thank you for taking the trouble to write to us.
Yours sincerely

With luck the manager will be more imaginative, they were clearly more circumspect about mis-reading my signature.
Decided to transcribe a French translation by Frank L. Warrin of the Jabberwock to celebrate ( oh and for Amaury ).
Le Jaseroque
Il brilgue: les toves lubricilleux
Se gyrent en vrillant dans le guave,
Enmimes sont les gougebosquex,
Et le momerade horsgrave.

Garde-toi du Jaseroque, mon fils!
La gueule qui mord; la griffe qui prend!
Garde-toi de l'oiseau Jube, evite
Le frumieux Band-a-prend.

Son glaive vorpal en main il va-
T-a la recherche du fauve manscant;
Puis arrive a l'arbre Te-Te,
Il y reste, reflechissant.

Pendant qu'il pense, tout uffuse
Le Jaseroque, a l'oeil flambant,
Vient siblant par le bois tullegeais,
Et burbule en venant.

Un deux, un deux, par le milieu,
Le glaive vorpal fait pat-a-pan!
La bete defaite, avec sa tete,
Il rentre gallomphant.

As-tu tue le Jaseroque?
Viens a mon coer, fils rayonnais!
O jour frabbejeais! Calleau! Callai!
Il cortule dans sa joie.

Il brilgue: les toves lubricilleux
Se gyrent en vrillant dans le guave,
Enmimes sont les gougebosquex,
Et le momerade horsgrave.
Committed Evolution customization stuff, updated gnome-vfs to get Pavel's locking acceleration updates.
Got tired, mental note from Rusty: "next time you're bored start reading about compuational geometry its interesting" somehow 'The Annotated Alice' & 'The complete works of Oscar Wilde' seem more attractive currently.
Committed eog PropertyBag fix, went to bed: 1.30am.

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Stuff Michael Meeks is doing

2001-01-16: Tuesday

Le Jaseroque