inside aebrahim’s head

So my luck today wasn’t so good. I broke a tooth today while pushing myself out of the swimming pool. Now I need to find a dentist and get it filled. I just hope I find someone who’ll see me tomorrow, because I don’t really want to go the weekend with some of my tooth missing without a dentist having seen it. Have to find something soft to eat for dinner…

Over the last few days I’ve been focusing my efforts of triaging open bugs in Firefox Downloading. So far, I’m quite happy with my progress, but have kind of hit a plateau now in terms of what I can do. The remaining bugs are all stuff that I have insufficient data to either confirm or invalidate, or bugs that I have no way to test for because I don’t have a MacOS X system. Help is always appreciated :).

Well a little spider has decided to make my room its home. While this doesn’t bother me a great deal, I have been trying somewhat half-heartedly to herd it out of my room and into the hall, where it can go and find a new home. Unfortunately, it is not cooperating. The thing makes Spiderman look clumsy. It jumps around from place to place ridiculously quickly, evading all my attempts to catch it. I guess I’ll just have to learn to living with it. As long as it doesn’t start having babies or whatnot, I don’t really care all that much. How do spiders do that, anyway? Does it take two to make more?

It’s that time of year again. Yes, the time of year where University of Chicago students team up to collect/build/collate stupid things, and make fools out of themselves in doing so. That’s right. Scavhunt! Check out this year’s list to see what things people are going to be making/doing until Sunday.

Yeah, I know the site is completely slashdotted right now, but let’s add a little bit to their pain :). Slashdot linking directly to a 365KB file on a small desktop machine must have brought the said poor machine to its knees.

Was just reading Slashdot, and got pointed to a NYT article that examines the usefulness of IRC today. When I say ‘examine’, I use the word in just about the loosest sense possible. Basically, its a piece that derides IRC as being the backwater of the net where all the warez and script kiddies hang out, and where not a whole lot of legitimate stuff happens. They say that it’s hard to find a decent technical conversation on IRC. Funny, I seem to have them daily. I guess they just spend too much time hanging out of EFNet. It’s not often that the NYT really does trashy reporting, but this has to qualify as one of those times.