After being roused at the seemingly normal 3AM sneeze attack, some part of my slumbering consciousness realized the HVAC was blowing a little extra, but that the furnace wasn't on (the air was moving, but not warm). Then my lesser-conscious parts reminde… more »

Today I had a meet-and-greet with the new client. Not an interview, as I'd already satisfied those curiosities, but just a "meet the team and banter a little bit" ice-breaker. Six new names to remember, with faces to match; a game I know I always lose, b… more »

Running a query to trim database to records just in last 30 days. Cutting too much times out, so trimming from long ago to less long ago. Query for four months ago took 90 minutes. Query for three months ago still churning ten hours later. more »

I've begun the task of moving some of the websites hosted on my aging Sparc system to the more generously apportioned Intel-based system. The Sparc is still (as of this writing) hosting this site, but a handful of other sites running software like t… more »

Some time ago I wrote a little bit on the Java equals-hashCode contract. Recently, I hastily violated this, and have spent the last two days chasing down failures in my refactoring due to this violation. more »

Running through a few updates yesterday, and I managed to knock this blog off the server and kill the SpamAssassin on the other one. As if that wasn't bad enough, the Internet router stopped working for a little bit, too. Just a quick, normal, perio… more »