Benjamin recently wrote about the current state of our effort to try to import our CVS repository to… something from this century. His conclusion is spot on, although I think it… minimizes the head-banging he and I have been going through for a couple of weeks. My original characterization didn’t turn out to be far Read More
Sometimes, you see a random photo whose composition and perspective all just click… and all you can think to yourself is “Yeah… that’s my life right now… that’s me.”1 It’s one of life’s better [surprise] pleasures. _____________________ 1 Photo courtesy of my friend Mid,2 who invited me to go plane watching today, but I declined. Read More
Dear Hawthorne Automated Flight Service Station: I’m sorry. No, seriously, I really do apologize.
Last week, the Firefox trunk build needed to be clobbered due to a checkin that broke depend builds. dbaron emailed us, requesting the clobber, but then he must’ve remembered me mentioning adding CLOBBER file support to the Tinderbox client. The idea was that developers shouldn’t have to find someone in #build to clobber builds for Read More
Yesterday, I talked a bit about my 2007 thus far. Schrep and I were discussing New Years Resolutions yesterday, and he said he didn’t believe in New Years resolutions: “It’s never too early or too late to make a change in your life.” I’d never thought about resolutions that way, but that’s a really good Read More
mrz caught me in the hallway today to let me know about a late Christmas present for those doing checkouts on the other side of the globe: cvs-mirror.nl.mozilla.com! This CVS mirror is not in production yet, but he told me about it so that he could get some help testing the mirror integrity/process. So, if Read More
It’s not even the first week of 2007, and it’s already been a harrowing… journey: Due to The BlizzardTM, Service Pack 2, I moved my flight from Friday the 29th to New Years Eve, arriving into SFO at 8 pm PST; this would’ve been fine, except… The plane, out of LAX, was three hours delayed, Read More