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Notes

Notes from the past few weeks:

1. news.ufl.edu survived a Slashdotting, all thanks to WP-Cache. There was downtime on the Web cluster, but it was unrelated to news.ufl.edu. :-)
2. I've started playing with Catalyst, and it seems pretty nice. I wasn't too keen on learning Ruby just for Rails, and knew that getting support at work would be nearly impossible. If I have my way, all our apps will be written using Catalyst.
3. Work has been getting more and more stressful. With all the energy I've been putting into projects this summer, I was a little overwhelmed when the fall semester started. We are seriously understaffed in the programming "department" (uh, me), but we keep taking on projects…
4. My wrists and fingers have been bothering me more. I'm working long hours, my posture sucks, and I'm not taking enough breaks, so basically I'm hosed.
5. There's some damn convention of Jehovah's Witnesses starting tomorrow, which means parking is going to suck even more. I can't believe what an oversight in planning this was, but whatever. The notices they've been putting on cars claim the conventions will bring approximately "$39 million dollars" (heh…) over the next five years to the local community, so it's not all bad. I guess. They are Jehovah's Witnesses, after all.
6. When driving home today, a cyclist launched himself into traffic. He was probably going 20 or 25 mph by the time his wheels hit 13th Street which, if you remember, does not have a marked bike lane. (Well, it has a faded arrow, but no line.) I happened to be driving the vehicle right next to him. Luckily I had registered his presence on some level before he jumped onto the road, and sort of guessed what he was going to do, but it still freaked me out. I like how if a bike hits your car, there's no insurance on the other side to cover it.

Take me away…