prog | Where things are

After working with Chuck for most of Monday, I can announce that my contributions to the first edition of Mac OS X in a Nutshell are complete. Hoo-hah. (Well... almost. We discovered that a chapter was inadvertently left out of the QC draft, and the QC of the command reference chapter/sub-book arrived only today. I have until next Monday to examine these. But, I don't think this will take long for me.)

Didn't do much else today. Sank four hours or so into installing DAMP onto the TiBook while watchin' Star Trek and then Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade. Drudgery... just a lot of mindless robo-work that I seem to have to do several times per year across all my machines. (If Apple trusted a Perl newer than 5.6.0 half of this wouldn't be necessary. Grunt.) My goal before fleeing to Maine involves putting all my ICCB stuff on this thing, but I didn't quite make it there this evening -- got stuck on a stupid problem where the mod_perl interpreter won't follow symlinks in order to load Perl modules. This behavior seems indepedent of the Apache FollowSymLinks directives. Blaaah. I gave up to eat some Annie's Mac and read the remainder of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, which I rather enjoyed, though now it's 02:15 and I'm feeling kind of messed up and not sleepy and wanting coffee.