Author Archives: Alan V
Errands
Today was lots of errands.
Got my flu shot this morning, then went to look for new shoes, pants, and pillows. Bought none of the above, although I found a really nice dress shirt (kind of a muted lime green) that I want, but it was $17 which is $7 more than I spend on clothes, so meh.
Afterward went to vote. Was torn up until the end about whether to vote Obama (not my first choice, but he’s the only viable candidate and I want to give him all the support he can get against McCain, whom I consider to be a disgrace at this point) or a third-party that I agreed with more. Meh.
I still think proposition R is the best ballot measure ever. The argument/rebuttal on that page are actually what was mailed to voters as part of the election materials. Awesomeness.
(Yes, it was pointed out that naming something useful after him may not be entirely appropriate, but I don’t think there’s anything blatantly offensive, destructive, or useless in the city that we can name after him, so this seems good enough.)
Went to the bookstore for a while and read a couple novels.
Then did laundry. Most people separate whites and colors… I really should separate greens and other colors. Probably 3/4 of my load was green clothes. Awesomeness.
That was my relatively boring day. At least I used the hell out of my $1.50 bus pass (6 trips).
Mmm
Mmmm booze
Mmmm company parties with open bars
Also you people fail at directions. Leave your andrewid and desired page that you want linked.
Open invitation
If you’re in the Science of the Web class, I would be happy to create a journal entry with the link text <andrewid> is a rankmaniac linked to the page of your choice. (Hopefully that’ll help boost your rank a bit.)
Leave a comment with your andrew id and desired page by tomorrow.
Edit: alanv is a rankmaniac
Tim: I had it as a link back to this entry that would keep expanding similar to above on the next page, but enabling PHP on this post broke my RSS feed, so you’ll have to settle for a Javascript expanding link for now.
Yay Work
I love working here so much.
Today we identified a bug that started occuring after the release this past weekend (someone was passing us the literal string “null” where we weren’t expecting it).
Fix took about 5 seconds to make, and it’ll be going out on Wednesday (possibly tomorrow, depending on if they do an e-release or not). How’s that for turnaround?
Even better, as part of that fix, Forrest suggested making the error message more informative. Coded up a quick fix (it was simple, so no worries about impact), talked to our team’s doc writer on YIM to get input on the customer-facing aspects, and had it reviewed and checked in in under an hour. This will also go out on Wednesday. 2 days from identifying a problem to having the fix out for customers to use. Awesome.
I love my job so much. The nearly-real-time response from customers on many issues is awesome.
I also like this song a lot. The remix is better than the original, IMO… livelier and such.