Are Those My Gardening Gloves?

Well, it is Thursday. Yesterday was a bad day. I was not feeling very good. I think I got a touch of the cold that is running around the office.

You may have noticed that all my sites were down yesterday as part of the SOPA/PIPA protests. Don’t get me wrong, I am no fan of online piracy, but giving government unlimited power to take down sites without “due process” is a bad idea. What is to prevent it from being used to censor ideas those in control of the executive branch deemed “dangerous”. Absolutely nothing. This legislation would do little to curb piracy, but it would do a lot to put a damper on online business and free speech. (Here is some information on SOPA and it’s possible effects: http://www.businessinsurance.org/behind-sopa-what-it-means-for-business-and-innovation/.) So in the end, just say “no” to SOPA/PIPA.

Well that’s enough about SOPA/PIPA. As I said earlier I am still not feeling that great. I postponed my interview Brent Michael Kelley (author of Chuggie and the Desecration of Stagwater
) to tomorrow. But I believe he is doing a Twitter chat tonight starting at 8:00 PM CST.

Today I am working on setting up builds on Jenkins and SCM-Manager on Linux.

Tonight if I am feeling okay, I may play some SWTOR. If not I will go to bed early again. I do intend to check out Brent’s chat on Twitter as well.

Have a great day.

Hello. I have coffee. And today’s breakfast is all about left over, cold pizza. Does it get any better than cold pizza? Well, yeah, but it is still a good start.

Today, it is actually snowing in my part (or parts) of Minnesota. This made my drive in a lot long and more challenging. Although we really need to snow and I would love to see it snow all day and all week, I hope that it has blown over at least slackened up a bit by the time I drive home.

Today also bring more work on bring the Mercurial project to life here at work as well as setting a Jenkins (Jenkins is a build/CI server) master and slave arrangement for testing. And a new installment of The Tyrannical Terror of the Burger Tsar over at The Adventures of The Snarky Avenger (snarkyavengercomic.com).

Tonight, I will be meeting with Aaron Siddall, the artist for The Adventures of The Snarky Avenger, to work on the comic and another secret project.

Last night was spent catching up on The Middle, Suburgatory, and checking out the new Napoleon Dynamite cartoon. The later of which was rather funny. Yes, I enjoy The Middle and Suburgatory, but I don’t watch anything live so I am constantly catching up.

Well that’s that. Have a great day.

Morning. I have coffee and breakfast: a breakfast burrito from Trader Joe’s. I have moved these daily postings to this blog (arethosemygardeninggloves.com). I started doing them just on Google+, but by moving them here they can be reached by a larger audience.

Yesterday, I played a little SWTOR mostly space battles and crafting on my two main characters, Snark’ii and Tsnar’kii. Went out to lunch and seeing a movie, Mission Impossible 27: Ghost Protocol, with my wife. And finishing my reading of the novel Chuggie and the Desecration of Stagwater
by Brent M. Kelly. (A review of said book will appear at snarkyavengercomic.com later this week following shortly by a podcast interview with the author.) This should have taken a lot less time to get through, it is a good book, but I have gotten out of the reading habit.

Today, I will be working on my roll out of a pilot of the Mercurial distributed version control system to my current employer. The pilot will be semi-exclusive to one of our two software development teams. The other will migrate in six months to a year. Today’s work will mostly be setting up servers and planning.

Tonight, I expect to spend some quality time with my Jedi Sentinel, Tsnar’kii (the “T” is silent, by the way), and reading. For those wondering my next read will be After the Cross
by Mike Lynch and Brandon Barr which will be followed by Hellbender
by Jason Jack Miller and then The Devil’s Mixtape
by Mary Borsellino. (These are all books I have been given to review. I will try and do podcast interviews with the authors as well.) I also have several audiobooks to listen to and review. I am working toward getting one review up a week.

Well that’s it folks. Have a great day.