Trying something new here. I want something between Twitter and a month long complete absence.

* Geoff started his first day at $work.

* Ben and Rob are in town this week for $work stuff.

* Lots of talk about running EMCAScript from inside a flash 9 VM, to generate HTML for things like the Feed Tree. * Really, we just need to figure out what the cost of copying data is

* Discussed why not having to write an wireshark plugin, and re-using HTTP as a transport protocol is good thing.

* Okay, so for those who don't know, back at Cyan, Rob and I wrote an Ethereal (since-renamed to wireshark) plugin, which code decoded the Uru Online network packets.  But the unique thing is that it actually ran the real _network layer_ and de-serialization routines, used by the actual engine, inside ethereal, meaning you could easily introspect objects, as they were packed over the wire.  It is still one of the coolest things I have worked on, at least from being in an oh-shit-something-is-broken situation.  To be able to know exactly what is going on with complex network applications is priceless.

* Rob merged Berkeley DB 4.5 to trunk. Woot.

* Researched various embedded HTTP Server Libraries:

* [shttpd](http://shttpd.sourceforge.net/) - Looks like the best. Actively maintained, good license.

Overall, I was quite disappointed by the overall quality and quantity of embeddable servers. If you are writing a client, there is curl or serf; But if you want a self contained server, and don’t want to make an apache module for various reasons, there just aren’t many good options.

* Re-inventing SOAP and object serialzation system without the sucky parts with a staticly typed language like C++ sucks. I wish I had Python.

* Cookies from the Pacific Cookie Company are good. And they ship them, extremely quickly.

* I went to Fry’s twice today. Once I came back with a 320GB Firewire Drive, the second time with Firewire 400 cables. It turns out, it only came with a 9-pin Firewire 800 cable, which doesn’t work so well in an original MacBookPro. Guess this means I need a new computer.

* Dinner at the Brewery:

* [DHH](http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000608.html) and [Mark](http://diveintomark.org/archives/2007/04/16/dhh-translation) are both crazy.  But, Mark is way funnier.
  * PS: I _wish_ my scaling problems were about storing only 255 bytes per post.



* More on running EMCAScript inside Flash VMs to do 'heavy' client side work.

* Started ripping Dead Like Me, Season 1 DVDs. Handbarke FTW. (DVD Ripping software for the Mac)

Metrics:

* 1 work meeting *

* 3 work emails.

* 3 work svn commits

* 1 non-work email.

* 0 non-work svn commits

edit, more:

* I banned 200+ Casino Spammers from Bloglines this morning. I hate spammers.

* Is typo’ing ‘shirt’ for ‘shit’, a feature or a bug?


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