Flashes of Panic

I feel like I am relatively quiet here, lately. I know, you don’t need to scroll down very far to hit the lengthy exploration of the Lydiard base phase, but even that seems pretty unfinished. There are a lot of unfinished ideas right now, which is not always bad; yesterday I started a post about configuration issues I’m having with vsftpd which kept leading me back to the web for more research. I even opened up the source of a non-Perl open-source program for the first time. I think I’m going to end up writing the author with a feature request, because I’m definitely not ready to hack his C source, but I feel like I want to exhaust all options before becoming a nag. And that’s sparking some interesting questions about my place in the larger open source community. So, example of an unfinished thought.

I wanted to post pretty pictures of caching (and going to cross-country meets) in snow, but it turns out that I’ve lost the USB cable to hook my camera to my Mac, so you’d have to come here and look at the tiny LCD on the back of the camera to see them.

Response to my wish-list post being sufficiently deafening, I will concentrate on feature requests and bug fixes for the immediate family, unless it turns out that you all just tuned me out around the point where I discussed flow control operators and array assignment in PHP.

Sometimes I’m finding that I don’t write things like that because I don’t think anyone is interested in reading them, and I need to remind myself that the point of this exercise (at least for me) is not that it’s reader-relevant.

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