I feel sickness coming on. Thank goodness it’s now and not at the end of the month when I’ll be heading to LinuxFest. I think Riley brought home a bug from preschool, and now I’ve got that post-nasal sore throat thing going on, and am achy, and should probably be going to bed now instead of writing this.
Development on Habari continues. There’s been a ruckus in the development lists lately about the look of the admin pages and the libraries used to develop them. Thankfully, we were able to get together “in person” in IRC and hash out some of those issues. IRC isn’t great for permanency, but it sure makes the exchange faster. I think you lose something in email as you start to roll through paragraphs on your own line of thought, and others read different things into what you’re saying when they don’t get a chance to interject and clarify. So IRC has proved useful beyond a tool for hanging out and idle chatting.
Abby’s first week of first grade went well. She’s already making good impressions on the teachers, and I expect she’s going to be one of those kids that the parents are really proud of, but the other kids scoff for throwing off the curve. Soon she’ll be able to post to her own blog. That’ll be neat.
The holiday weekend was really lazy. We didn’t do anything. Actually, on Friday, we had the new carpet installed. We replaced the carpet in the living room, dining room, up the stairs, in the hall, and in three bedrooms, excluding ours. Big project. We had to move all of the furniture around. I don’t know how Berta moved some of that stuff by herself, but she did.
I was thinking to do some coding, but I didn’t. There were a few things I wanted to try, but just couldn’t be near the computer. This week is going to be interesting, since I have a lot of things to do for work in a very short amount of time. Hopefully, the new guy can help me get this done by the deadline.
Finally, I wrote this post in ScribeFire, which I don’t like because it’s one of the ugliest add-ons for Firefox that I’ve ever encountered, but it does do XMLRPC posting. This is of interest because up until a few minutes ago, Habari could only post via APP. This means that I’ll probably be able to post from Viddler, since their APP support doesn’t seem to meet our APP specs (based on rev17, which looks to be the final version).
