Stuff Michael Meeks is doing
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- Up early, chewed mail - no mail; seemingly
the mail server dislikes (only) me, it can wait. Poked
at my packaging script; manage to leave a sudo rm -Rf /usr
running rather too long, killed scp, luckily smbd still
working.
- Fiddled with re-installing Threads 7.3
for a while before abandoning ship to Pink Tie 8.0.
Did a tad of linc/ORBit2 improvement while re-installing
misc. Ximian bits.
- Eat J.'s cake for lunch - very good. An
extremely amusing article about the measurable harm
trauma counselling can do to people after a traumatic
indcident. After the Gulf war, 3% of British soldiers
developed PTSD (with a background rate of ~1%) - but 97%
did not develop it. Civilians are less lucky, (or well
trained) - 5% from floods/earthquakes, 20% of those in
fatal car crashes, most rape victims. Of Israeli heart
attack victims studied, 19% of those who were counselled
deveoped PTSD, vs. 7% who went for the stiff upper lip.
Repression, as the British always knew, works. And it's
a lot cheaper, too.
- Discovered the reason I havn't been getting
mail was that some op set the sticky bit on my home
directory: cunning, unstuck it. Committed my ORBit2
'sequence' API - that mirrors GArray - but for CORBA
sequences. Chewed mail.
- J. arrived home, then Ronda arrived, helped
lug her luggage in; she works as a database developer at
a trucking place on Exning road. Dinner, bed.
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created by me and (unless obviously labelled otherwise) are licensed under
the public domain, and/or if that doesn't float your boat a CC0
license. I encourage linking back (of course) to help people decide for
themselves, in context, in the battle for ideas, and I love fixes /
improvements / corrections by private mail.
In case it's not painfully obvious: the reflections reflected here are my
own; mine, all mine ! and don't reflect the views of Collabora, SUSE,
Novell, The Document Foundation, Spaghetti Hurlers (International),
or anyone else.
It's also important to realise that I'm not in on the Swedish Conspiracy.
Occasionally people ask for formal photos for conferences
or fun.
Michael Meeks (michael.meeks@collabora.com)
