My ego needs a boost (Ha!), so I’ve decided to write down an accomplishment each day. The past three days have been easy; Tonight is looking a little harder. On Saturday morning I wrote up a doc abotu dealing with “over protection” failure; What to do when a customer loses more drives than they were set to protect for. On Sunday night I figured out, finally, how to cause those in an elegant way. Even with our QA tools, this is not easy on OneFS. Monday morning I documented sparse file behavior, and filed a bug that has gained minor traction; One of our Engineering Managers chimed in approvingly. Today… I’ve survived. Dealt with a few cases, too. Not much more than that, sadly.

I have spent a good several hours over the past several months fighting with my ubuntu machine. It would come up and attempt to mount my raid (A simple RAID1 over two drives), and, upon boot, try and mount the MD device with /dev/sda1 and /dev/sdb, not /dev/sdb1. It turned out that, while a mdadm -E didn’t show it, /dev/sdb had enough of a superblock on it that mdadm tried to use it as part of an array… And that prevented it from reading the partition table, preventing me from even manually mounting it. I used –zero-superblock to clear it, and suddenly my machine is booting fine.

I have recently acquired a PS3 and a PSP, so I am going back and playing all the games for them that I meant to, but missed. Unfortunately, I have not actually paid attention to what were good games for these systems. This has led me to pick up two very ill-advised games.

First� is “Work Time Fun”, which is anything but. As minigame collections go, it is ass. There’s nothing redeeming. The only reason I bought it was because I thought it was from Lone Sausage, the creators of Dr. Tran, but it turns out that there’s simply a similar looking vietnamese kid on the cover. Bleh.

Next up is Noby Noby Boy. Noby Noby Boy is amazing. Never before has there been a game where the chief, and in fact only, game mechanic is filling up the creators ego. In Noby Noby boy, you play an earthworm-like thing called BOY, and you eat stuff and get bigger. If this sounds like Katamari, you’ve figured out it’s pedigree. About the only thing that Noby Noby Boy has going for it is that, as you grow, your gameplay statistics are uploaded to make the space-earthworm known as GIRL grow. There’s nothing else to do. There’s some cute psychadelic flavor, but if you’ve played the later Katamaris you’ve already gotten your fill of such. That’s all there really is to it. It’s a wank-fest for� Keita Takahashi.

I am anxiously awaiting my 21st birthday; Like most people my age, I’m not actually a stranger to alcohol, but being able to acquire such myself will be a nice change. I’ve never been a fan of age-based restricions; I believe we should lower the voting age, lower the drinking age, lower the driving age, be more flexible in our age-of-consent laws…

I was looking forward to� finally hitting the last age-based milestone, but then I realized that there’s one more to go. And, unlike the age of drinking, which is state decided though uniform aross the nation, It’s written into the very constituion. I cannot yet attain the office of President.

This really annoys me, actually. Not that I intended to vote for someone under 35, or would even really consider it. But it is another arbitrary age-drawn line. There are people I know who’re old enough to be my father, yet nowhere near mature enough. There are those whom are barely older than me whom I’d vote for any day of the week, if they decided they were going into politics. It’s unfortunate that we’ve got this restriction.

WARNING: HAZARDOUS CONTENT WITHIN

This is an attempt to journal the activities of a dangerous conspiracy. This conspiracy ranges far and wide, using a network of media outlets, artists and musicians in an attempt to spread their goals. The only know part of their agenda is this: Distribution of an insidious song, one that permeates our popular culture yet remains dangerously under-the-radar, out of sight and out of concious mind for most of the population. Here are but a few of the places where it has been subtly hidden:

• A Donald Duck Cartoon
• Advertisements for Pixar’s “Wall-E“
• A Visa Advertisement
• A Music Video
• A fake Movie Trailer
• Frank Sinatra sung it
• So did The Arcade Fire
• iTunes has 118 results for ‘Aquarela do Brasil’, including an Entire ALBUM named for it.
• An entire Terry Gilliam Film

There are merely the entries that I have yet discovered. More certainly lurk at the edges of our vision, silently poisoning our minds.

Edit: THERE’S A WHOLE SWARM OF THEM!

I have been reading through the Jargon File (again), slowly. Today, I reached the entry on Creeping Featureism. The source to hello, is, as it says, hilarious. So, I go over to my ubuntu machine, and get this:�

ted@thahnubuntu:/$ hello
The program ‘hello’ can be found in the following packages:
* hello-dbs
* hello-debhelper
* hello
Try: sudo apt-get install <selected package>
bash: hello: command not found

I think there’s a lesson here.

I don’t dream often. At least, I don’t think I do. So, from now on, whenever I /do/ dream, I will try and record it here.

Now, to not post for another month.

I’d like to take a minute and tell you all about my new Porn site, entellium.

This is why I’ve never show my parents this blog.

Anyway: Story behind this is that I have a� friend working at “Entellium”, the real company. He suggested that he hates the web developer they’ve got their currently, and another friend suggested that she’d love to kill him and take his place. They then get into a brief discussion about SEO, to which I cut in with an obvious “Yeah, but at some point your gonna have porn masquerading as you”. He said “Well, I doubt there’s any ‘Entellium’ porn.” And that, my friends, was a challenge.

Anyway, the idea is that I am to, over the next few weeks, get my site up on the first page of google results for “Entellium”. Easy, right?