Monday, 8 April 2002
More pictures from yesterday. The person who took these didn't know me, and I don't know him, so please forgive my seeming absence from them (although if someone spots me in them, please let me know!)
8:05 PMEmail access via the Web: Wish I had found this a few days ago. Over the weekend I installed mail software at home: so far, Postfix, several components of the Courier suite (IMAP server, maildrop filter, and SqWebMail client), fetchmail, and SpamAssassin. Also required were some Apache, SSL, and DNS infrastructure changes to support everything.
It hasn't all gone perfectly, but overall I've been very impressed by Courier and a little amazed it isn't more popular (or is it)?
Sunday, 7 April 2002
At least some employees laid off at Apple this past week weren't in sales and marketing. They're short-staffed enough as is on software development—it only takes a few seconds of looking at OS X to discover the rough edges. Apple must be really hurting. Ouch.
Had a great time this afternoon at a gathering where, bizarrely, I saw people from about five groups of friends I had never seen together, and met several people I only knew from online. It was a lot of fun, even if none of us could throw a Frisbee more than ten feet straight 
. Photos here.
My writing here has been extremely poor recently. Every time I
reread a paragraph after posting it, I find missing words, awkward
phrasing, and a train of thought that hardly deserves to exist.
Take my most recent post, on HostLauncher. The writing was actually worse before I revised it, but I'll leave it in its present form as an example. I had been awake for 27 hours when I posted it, which undoubtedly contributed to the post's lack of coherence.
Conclusions? I'll attempt to write more clearly, in an attempt to keep what few readers I still have. And I'll stop posting when I'm exhausted. Despite the feeling of accomplishment I get from a public cry of "yeah! it's finished!" after a long night of hacking, my embarrassment at seeing the next morning what I posted should be enough to dissuade me from posting in the first place.
