Yep, you guessed it. Almost immediately after I got home from work today, I went unconscious. Stayed that way for several blissful hours. Then I woke up and decided to be slightly semi-productive. Hmmmm... I just remembered something.

[Bitscape goes to tinker with his apache config files.]

There. Now Argo's page is back up at both of the access points.

Ahem. What was I saying? Oh yeah. I woke up from my nap, and began tweaking with my Apache config files again. They still need so much help. I'm tempted to completely wipe all the files under the /etc/apache tree one of these weekends and rebuild them from scratch. One could learn a lot by doing that.

But for now, this will do.

Let's see... what else was I going to report? That's about it for the evening's activities, really.

Well, today at work was interesting. Certainly different than the norm. I raised an eyebrow or two when I learned of the plan by the pointy hairs to try having the department dabble in some slightly non-traditional methods for getting things done.

So today, and for the next couple days, we're doing (theoretically) all the programming in pairs. One person sits at the keyboard and types. The other looks on and makes suggestions, reviews what is being done, and tries to catch anything the other person might have missed.

Initially, I didn't like it much. It would seem silly to be using two people's time to do the job of one, and I personnally think I usually concentrate better with no one looking over my shoulder.

But I have to say, after doing it for a day and a half, it is growing on me. Especially when one person gets stuck, and instead of staring blankly at the screen looking at the same code over and over, the other one might be able to think of another approach. Working in pairs also has the advantage of helping to ward off the "I'm stuck in my silent little lonely cube with not a ray of hope in sight" syndrome.

The jury is still out on whether I really think it's a more productive way to work or not. At any rate, it is a change from the usual day to day routine. So that's an interesting twist.

I think I'll zone out into the music for a few minutes before I go back to sleep. Tour dreamland.