Internal Affairs

Life Lessons

1. Find friends who live in ranch style houses, or the first apartment in the door on the first floor.
2. Corollary: If your friends do not live on the first floor, make sure they have elevators and wide stairwells.
3. Avoid friends who have as much furniture and stuff as say you and 4 others combined.
4. Corollary: Make sure that if they do, there is more than one dolly to transport things with.
5. Also, make sure that if they do, the drawers are removable, assembled furniture has not been glued, stapled, screwed, and nailed together. In the same places.
6. If a friend asks you to move, find out whether the place they are moving to is on the first floor, or if not, whether it has elevators. Also of import is how far the parking lot is from the entrance.
7. If you ever end up helping a friend move for 16 hours, make sure he owes you big time, and knows it for a really long time.
8. Corollary: Every time you see him from then on, tell him how awesome his new place is.

Waugh. Does anyone know a good massage therapist?

Bugzilla XML

Sigh. I wish our Bugzilla XML interface was better. It could actually be useful. In fact, I have found a use for it in something I'm working on. I produced a patch for bug 171478 earlier which will make it slightly more useful, and quite useful for me. But the XML output in general is just bad. In order to get any useful information via a DOM, you need to iterate through elements looking for things. It would be so much nicer if attributes were used more...

Highlight beeps

I just produced my first patch to X-Chat in order to fix a problem where actions containing my nick would highlight, but not beep if I have "beep on highlighted messages" enabled. This problem also exists for words contained in my "extra words to highlight" list which appear in action messages. I submitted it to zed, and hope to see it committed to the xchat2 tree.

Revolutions

I saw Matrix Revolutions today with some friends. It definitely doesn't suck. Spoilers may be ahead, so continue reading at your own risk if you have not yet seen it.

I do have to say that I'm not necessarily sure I understood the part about the bridge between the machine world and the real world. I may have missed something, but that did not really make sense to me. I also still believe that the "real world" is part of another matrix, which they did not really tackle. Neo seeing the real world as orange matrix code seemed to re-inforce that idea, as well as his ability stop the machines from attacking Trinity and himself.

I was a bit puzzled at the Wachowski's attempt to explain Gloria Foster's death. The explanation seemed thrown together at the last minute, and didn't really make much sense to me. I thought it might have almost been better if they had left that alone, though I understand their reasoning to not.

About the only reason I can think for critics not really liking the movie at first is that there are too many unanswered questions. This is definitely a movie I feel I need to see again in order to really understand and appreciate, but I love those kinds of movies. I have a feeling that the reviews will change their tone in time.