Chuck Jones passed away at 89 yesterday…

My mixer rocks…. Cookie making is SO much easier now…. Making the chocolate chip cookies, which used to require about 10 minutes and lots of elbow grease to get the dough made now takes a few minutes…. What a wonderful investment!

If I don’t go to bed now I am gonna pass out at the keyboard, so good night. :)

This is hysterical…

Even though it is a few minutes early, I think I am gonna go home…

I got my mixer!!!! Too bad I am leaving it at work until I move…. :(

Update: Who am I kidding…. I can’t wait a week… I guess I will bring it home tonight and then just move it with the rest of my stuff next week… Saving all the packaging should make the process easier.

…hurts… I am not quite sure what’s wrong with it… I am sure it will go away soon enough…

I have been packing just one or two boxes a night, but I think that pace is going well… All my books are packed, as well as my desk (save my filecabinet, which I just need one of those file boxes to transfer the folders into). I need to pack up my movies and music, as well as my kitchen, but I think I will save those until a day or two before I actually move (for somewhat obvious reasons). I might pack up SOME of the kitchen tonight, but we will see… Other than those two things, I have to toss my clothes into garbage bags, and disassemble my a/v equipment, but both those should be any trouble (Mental Note: Make sure to remove all CD’s & DVD’s from their respective players before unplugging them)..

Man, I don’t really care much for Yoko Ono, but I love this song…

I called AT&T Broadband to order cable service on Tuesday, and they said that because this was a new residence, it wasn’t in their “servicable” database, and it would need to be added to it. The lady said she the person who did that was out to lunch, and she would call me back in about 30 minutes.

Two days later, I had yet to hear from her, so I called back. Of course, I got some other douchebag who said that they didn’t call people back like that, and even so, it would take about a week for the residence to be added to the database because tech needed to go out and survey the property.

I asked her if she knew if that information had already been submitted to the techs, and she didn’t know. I asked her if she even had a record of me requesting service there from Tuesday, and she said no, but that was because they didn’t keep such records.

I gave her shit until she agreed to take my information down again and submit it to the techs. She said that “someone already said they would do that for you” to which I replied, “but that same person also said they would call me back to let me know what was going on”. She responded “but we don’t call back with that information”, to which I countered “Yes, but the fact that she gave me misinformation doesn’t do much to instill confidence in her ability to get any of this right. when compounded with the fact that you can’t even verify if this information had ever been submitted, my confidence drops to zero. Please submit this information to the field office techs.”

So she eventually agreed to do so. The kicker is that they won’t notify me when the property has been surveyed, I have to keep on calling back to see when they have completed the survey, which will take about a week.

Bullshit.

I called RCN to see if we could just say ‘fuck it’ to AT&T, but alas, they don’t service Cambridge.

I spent most of today getting XML-RPC working at work…. Our code is still based on Mozilla 0.9.1 (for reasons I am pretty sure I have laid out here before), and while nsIXmlRpcClient existed before 0.9.1, it was broken IN 0.9.1. I started thumbing through the CVS logs using Good ol’ Bonsai and I found a version that was released soon after 0.9.1 that “brought the client up to date with the current API”. Unfortunately, apparently most of the API changes came after 0.9.1 as well… So I spent the day wrangling the code I had to work under 0.9.1, needing to write a helper class or two to make it butter. While I felt good seeing a successful call from client to server (and the successful response), it pisses me off that I had to write a whole bunchof code that will get thrown out when we move to Mozilla 1.0 after next month (or it’s release, whichever comes first).

XML-RPC is nothing revolutionary, but both the Mozilla support (client) and Java support (server) made the whole experience fairly pleasant (once I got the client up and running under 0.9.1, of course). It is really easy to make a method call from Mozilla, and apparently from the Java end of things it doesn’t require much more than importing the XML-RPC package to publish the methods of that particular class. I especially like it because it accounts for type information, which is a bit more structure than what we were going to use (a homebrew solution). I am glad I stumbled across XML-RPC now, because a week later and we wouldn’t have had time the eval/implement it…

The past few weeks I have been growing more and more fond of Mozilla and its various architectural systems (especially XPCOM). Adam and I are probably going to start contributing to the tree once we move in together… We have a few projects that we want to tackle that would be very nice for Mozilla (post 1.0, of course).

IRC is funny…

Not an ordinary thermos, its true