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Happy New Years Eve. A quiet working day. Completed contract negotiations with a client, installed a new beta, upgraded a machine to RH 8.0.

Monday, 30 December, 2002

An interesting article in the Washinton Post on the engineering challenges involved in weatherproofing Chernobyl for 100 years while decontamination efforts continue.

I don’t know if you bother to take time to read through the click-through EULAs, but the VFP 8 one has an interesting restriction that prevents redistribution of “Redistributables in any [...]

Sunday, 29 December, 2002

Spent quite a bit of time with folks on Ed Leafe’s new ProLinux list trying to get Samba set up to serve a file share on my Linux workstation. After a few hours of tweaking, I managed to get the network card to refuse to start at all. Not exactly progress in [...]

Saturday, 28 December, 2002

Spent most of the day wrestling with contract terms. Blah.

Friday, 27 December, 2002

Saw “Two Towers” today. A lot more violence than the first, but more rough battle scenes and less drama or character build-up. Samwise shines.

Thursday, 26 December, 2002

Ow, am I sore. Spent two hours digging out the driveway. We got at least a foot of snow, perhaps more. Steve and Laura and I shovelled 4-6″ last evening, and possibly twice that this morning. Got to remember not to sit down too long.

Wednesday, 25 December, 2002

A few Christmas Eve pictures at: http://www.tedroche.com/Photos/Xmas2002/Index.htm

A wonderful poem praising the cowardice of lurkers.

Tuesday, 24 December, 2002

Merry Christmas Eve. A puttering morning and then travel and relatives. Ho, ho, ho!

I want to keep an eye on Subversion, as it may be the open-source successor to CVS.

Monday, 23 December, 2002

Mitch Kapor continues to get good press for his open-source project “Chandler,” a new PIM not due out for at least a year. I’m concerned that all the buzz will actually put a chill in the marketplace, which already has cool products like Evolution.

Sunday, 22 December, 2002

Vicious, nasty, funny and really well written: The Beast’s 50 Most Loathsome People in America, 2002

Fun with the dogs: http://home.attbi.com/~tedroche/Photos/Xmas2002/Index.htm

Time Magazine’s “… of the Year” features a bunch of good articles: here and here and here.