July 1, 2000

Woke up around 3 in the PM, I think.

Went to the office then back home to put some shorts on.

My parents called while I was heading back to the office. They got back from their fishing trip in canadia and were telling me about it. I am mostly glad I didn't go, seeing as I had a really fun week here, and I think I don't like fishing so much these days. Also, the place they went was the place last year that we went, which was when our dog died.

There have been quite a few articles about Helix and GNOME 1.2 this week, from some of the Linux web magazine things. They've almost all been tremendously positive, It is really nice to read them, since there was a tremendous amount of work that was put into it by myself, and the gnome and helix teams, and after the initial not-so-goodness of the 1.2 release, things have turned out very good. La la la.

People are pretty weird. Especially when it comes to feelings and stuff. It is really nice that I can be able to be happy and stuff these days. Hopefully it will last for a long time.

Went to cafe pamplona with nat, mig, vlad, peter, and matt.

Got "Happiness", one of my favorite movies.

Went to Ginza, then watched happiness at the Cave. People thought it was disturbing, but nobody seemed to say it was bad.

July 2, 2000

Sad day today. Ah well, life moves on.

July 3, 2000

Work: email in the morning, building packages in the afternoon.

Ordered the new laptop today. I hope it comes before the we move into the new offices.

Lunch at KHOP with peter, then coffee with miggie and nat.

Watched some Friends and Tom Green at the Cave, which now has some wavelan.

July 4, 2000

Played with some gnome-vfs stuff in the panel.

Walked to the Cave. There were a lot of people out.

Watched some Friends.

I found out that some guy from college I didn't like got his girlfriend pregnant and left her, since his parents said they would disown him. So like he is rich and stuff and this really sucks for her. The only positive thing I can thin about this is that now my friends and I have a real reason not to like that guy.

Went to the fireworks.

Some new VAIOS got announced or something. So now I am going to have to rationalize getting the one with the smaller display.

Cave hanging out action.

July 5, 2000

Usual Tuesday meetings. Fun fun fun.

Added gnome-python related packages to the build system.

Worked a bit more on the stripped RPMs.

Wrote a validator for updates.xml, which should have been done a long time ago.

Watched some Friends at the Cave.

July 6, 2000

Woke up early for a 9:30 AM meeting which didn't happen.

Went to Leo's Place in Harvard Square for breakfast with Peter and Joe.

Got "Programming Python", since gnome-python is in Helix GNOME now.

Uploaded the new RPMs.

Had said meeting.

Dinner with Joe, Melissa, and Jamie at the Italian place I went to last week. It was better this time. I ate all of my mussels.

Watched "Good Morning Vietnam"

July 7, 2000

More packaging stuff.

Lunch at a vietnamese place in harvard square. Then I had to get some McDonald's later cause I was still hungry.

Movie night: "Scary Movie". It was no "The Perfect Storm", that's for sure.

Went to some place with Nat and Fedi and Haylor and Harold, but it wasn't the place for Harold and I so we went to the Cave.

Watched 5 Friends episodes. Included was the most funniest Friends moment evern. Hahahahaha.

Started to fall asleep on the couch at the cave so I walked home.

July 8, 2000

Woke up, went to the office. Didn't have the charger thing for my laptop so walking to the Cave action occured.

Went with nat to some sporting places at Harvard Square. They sucked.

Went to City Sports, or something. They had some awesome blades so some purchasing action occured.

So, my blades rule. They are like, perfection, in rollerblade form.

Ended up eating at some place in Harvard Square with Nat.

Cave hanging out on the IRC. Blah blah blah.

July 9, 2000

Went to see Dave Matthews with Nat, Italiano, and Lisa (Lisa... no, you don't know her). It would have been more fun if I liked Dave Matthews. It is bothersome to me, since I can't think of a good reason why I don't like them. They are like good musicians, and their drummer is awesome, but it just does nothing for me. Anyway, there were lots of people enjoying themselves.

Football stadiums are so crappy. Fenway is like 300 years old, but it so much nicer than Foxboro. It is a good thing they don't play baseball there, like they do at Three Rivers. Bleh. What a travesty.

Went to IHOP for some eating. Again, I had the Quick Two-Egg. I got over-medium eggs, which I am now preferring ever since the Leo's incident.

July 10, 2000

More Cars on the alarm clock this morning.

More package updating. The hackers were busy this weekend.

Vainly tried to obtain the Sony DVP-FX1. I don't think it is out yet. The one Circuit City said they had it, but they only had the Panasonic.

More package building.

I had forgotten how much I love rollerblading. It is too bad this stupid city puts down sand in the winter, cause there is still some of that stuff blowing around and getting into my bearings.

I am hungry.

July 11, 2000

Woke up at 8 something. Evidently they play sports talk at this hour, instead of good music.

Did some updates for some of the distros, including fixing some sawmill capplet stuff.

Lunch at Leo's Place with Nat. I had a donut this time too. Then Nat went and bought a shirt.

Couch hacking with Joe. I was so enthralled with the moment that I don't remember what happened.

Ice Cream Party. I spilled ice cream on my Vaio. It was scary.

Weekly Meeting. Blah blah.

Started working on some Evolution RPMs.

Went to the Cave to watch some Friends and continued to work on the RPMs.

Algiers action.

For some reason, 45 minutes before Friends was going to start, people decided to upgrade the TiVo. This is not going very well. We are missing Friends. Not Good.

(Hi Joe's mom)

So we had to get out the little 13 inch tv to watch some very static filled Friends. This is definitely a low point in my week.

July 12, 2000

Woke up to I think ELP.

Hacked on the Evolution RPMs all day, mostly.

Caved in and got the bt cd Nat drives around with. Noticed a Jimmy Page / Black Crowes live cd, so I figured I would get it. It is really good. I love "Hey Hey What Can I Do".

Released said RPMs.

Watched some Friends at the Cave with Joe.

July 13, 2000

My laptop is here.

Did an interview with linux.com about working at Helix. Joe was supposed to be there too but he is sick.

Started setting up my laptop.

Dinner at the Tapas place by the Cave with Miguel. It was pretty good.

July 14, 2000

More laptop setting up.

I think i fixed some problems with the sawmill RPMs. The solution isn't so great, but I think it will work a bit better.

Movie Night: X-Men. Pretty good. No Shaft, but no The Perfect Storm. No AC in the theater either which made things a little bit fun.

After the movie, we again ate at the Tapas place by the Cave. Discovered they have pretty good fried calamari, and fries came with it. Interesting.

Everyone decided to go dancing, either at the Lava Bar or Sophia's, so I decided to head home. I was pretty tired.

July 15, 2000

Decided to give Evolution a chance as my main mail reader. Wrote a little script to make the subfolders, since the UI for this is not so great. Also made filter rules for all of the folders I have in Gnus. It is so far much easier to do in Gnus.

Pushed 180 MB of email through Evolution's filters. It still has some scaling issues. Apparently it indexes the spool before importing it (which it does in memory). I had to make an emergency swap file so that I didn't run out of swap.

Also, importing new mail is pretty slow too, since it seems to be re-indexing all of my folders again.

Dinner at Fire 'n Ice with Bambino, Federico, Joe, and Miguel.

July 16, 2000

Fun with SuSE today. The new gnome-utils .spec file rules.

Saw X-Men again.

Some water damage at the sweatshop. I didn't get it on film though.

So now Miguel is calling me "Friedman" and Nat calls me "Miggie".

July 18, 2000

I am not at OLS.

July 19, 2000

Slept an hour longer than i wanted to. Didn't go blading on the esplanade like I have been wanting to do in the morning. I guess I am not as much of a morning person in the summer as I thought I was.

Finished doing some updates for SuSE (6.3 and 6.4) and TurboLinux.

Went with Federico and Peter to Tweeter to look for a discman for Federico. They didn't have any, but they did have the Sony portable DVD player.

I did not purchase it.

I also did not get the cool little video camera or headphones they had there.

Went to some other place and Fedi and i got the discman. It is very nice.

Uploaded a new installer that didn't have the floating point issues with SuSE. For some unknown reason, this installer seems to be crashing sometimes on startup. Doing 'sh -c <installer>' seems to work though. That does not make me feel very good.

Coffee with nat at pamplona where we ran into jenny.

Built some updates for the other distros but didn't update updates.xml for them as I am too tired. Tomorrow is LinuxPPC day.

I did not watch any Friends today as i worked instead.

July 20, 2000

Overheard:

<Nat_> AC off-line, battery status critical: 0% (0:00) <Nat_> it's been like that for 20 minutes -!- Nat_ has quit IRC [Ping timeout: 181 seconds]

July 21, 2000

Finished the LinuxPPC updates and uploaded them. Finally.

Rewrote the distro-checking code in the updater. It is much slicker now :)

Some eating at a nice little Italian place by the movies.

Movie Night: Tonight's movie was "The In Crowd". I will refrain from making any jokes on the title. Anyway, nobody really wanted to see it and there were like 5 people in the theater (one of whom was Federico waiting for us), so we went and saw X-Men in the big theater. So now I've seen that like 3 times in a week. The good news is that they really did mess up where I had thought they did (you can see the frog dude's harness/cable thingie in one (actually maybe 2) scenes). Blah blah blah.

Eventually made it back to the Cave to watch some friends. The 5 episodes went by so fast.

Walked home and went to sleep. I think it was lke 4:30 or something.

Not too long later, I found myself sitting on my steps outside my apartment. Nat decided that he wanted to get some work done at the office, but he hadn't brought any keys with him, so he called me to let him into the office. I guess he just hadn't planned this part very well.

Oh, it was raining now.

So I get my key stuck in my apartment front door. (Remember this part, it will come into play later)

So nat finds his little plastic key cause his car key is of course at home. Then we drove back to his place to get his keys and back to my place so i could sleep.

So, remember that part a little while ago about my key getting stuck? Well, now it doesn't unlock the front door. Which isn't so good, since unlocking doors is what keys do. Well, good keys. I wish my key had a TiVo remote so I could give it 3 big red thumbs down. BAD KEY!

July 22, 2000

Went for a walk in the beautiful Boston. Ended up at Tweeter, but this time with my laptop so I could see if I could get the sony memory stick thing in the cameras working.

I could (actually it was very easy). So, now I have to decide if this camera will really fill a hole in my life.

Did some work on the updater...

Went rollerblading at the esplanade again. It is really nice. I still need to go when there are fewer [ed: is that correct, joe?] people there.

Went to Subway after that. My life is better now that Subway is involved again. Went home and had my first meal in my apartment. (I have been here something like 6 months and hadn't eaten there yet)

Walked around listening to some good music and ended up sitting at Nat's. Decided to wavelan from the steps. Wavelan rules.

Went home soon after that, as I was pretty tired.

July 23, 2000

For some reason I decided to play with my kernel today. So i enabled fbcon support, and decided that I wanted the Helix monkeybutton instead of the penguin on bootup.

Started writing an xpm2linux_logo program. After a while, got it to look like it works. After fixing something I misunderstood, I rebooted and there was the dancing monkey. Unfortunately, I didn't get the palette stuff totally right so it was a bit messed up.

Headed off to work, since Nat was maybe going to get rollerblades. Did a little "research" on the Internet, and found there was (of course) a gimp plugin which does the logo thingie.

Of course it didn't work.

So after some grepping in the gimp source I got it to work. So now I have a nice little monkey when i boot.

The OLS crew are back. Hung out with nat & mig for a while, then went home to sleep.

July 24, 2000

I am compiling the GIMP and my laptop is getting very hot.

July 25, 2000

Was trying to stay up working all night, and decided to take a break and go rollerblading at dawn. Ended up going farther than I had thought, and was pretty much exhausted when I got home. So instead of going to Leo's with Joe and Ian (of swimming fame) I went to sleep. At some point Joe called me, like right after I went to sleep. I don't think I really knew what was going on.

Slept for 4 hours.

Back to the sweatshop for some frustrating hacking. Sometimes I think I don't know how to program at all.

Went to Harvard Sq. with Nat and Mig. First stop was Tweeter, where I again got neither a camera or a dvd player (or headphones). We then went to HMV where miguel got a new cd, and then to Algiers, where some other office people ended up too.

Decided to do laundry.

Was going to go to Subway, and then head back to the office. Unfortunately Subway had other plans, and was very dark when I arrived. So I walked back to the office.

Decided that my day was over and headed home. Today was pretty bad, overall.

July 26, 2000

Was supposed to wake up at 8 to meet up with mig for breakfast at 10. Woke up at 9 instead.

Fortunately I did make it on time to breakfast. Unfortunately, miggie was late.

Waited a while, then finally called him. He was still asleep.

Eventually he got there and we had a good breakfast.

Some more work on the gunzip code. Actual progress today, although it doesn't totally work on large files.

Went to the Harvard Square HMV where BT was giving autographs. I felt like one of the fanboys, but fortunately mig could talk to him about when he was in Mexico the other week. This is sad, since it means I am boring and uninteresting. But I have recently had my suspicions that this was the case anyway, so it is no shock to my ears.

Dinner at Greenhouse with mig

More trying to figure out why gunzip does not work.

Algiers with nat & mig, gunzip frustrations continue.

More gunzip frustration, so I went home, and got it working. Yay! I can sleep now. Hmm, I suppose I should support bz2.

July 27, 2000

Well, today I was the one late to breakfast :)

After breakfast, bought 2 BT cd's in preparation for tonight.

My headphones are kinda broken. It sucks.

Did some hacking on some updater stuff.

Well BT cancelled or something, so no show. I guess he was at some other place last night that I missed. So that pretty much sucked.

Went to the Cave to catch up on my Friends. It nice to see Ross and Rachel going out. Also saw some Tom Green. I don't know why phil wants to be canadian. Not that there's anything wrong with it.

July 28, 2000

Went to Harvard Square and got new headphones. They rule.

I decided to wear a tie and stuff to work today. It was funny seeing people's reactions.

More BT cd listening and updater hacking.

Forgot to eat.

I haven't driven now for 3 years. I am pretty happy about that.

Movie night: "What Lies Beneath". I liked it a lot; it was suspenseful and what not. I dunno what other people thought though...

Watched some Friends at the Cave and ate some food with Joe.

Hacked at the office before getting tired. I don't seem to be able to hack while tired very much these days. It kinda sucks.

July 30, 2000

The stupid vending machine is out of change. I wish there was a "Keep the change" button on them, since i didn't want the coins back anyway.

July 31, 2000

Got a lot of work done today. Yay.

Watched too much Tom Green and ended up going to sleep at 5 AM.