I was altogether too tired to write one last night, so I'll make an attempt now, before I get too tired tonight.

Festing commenced in the Alcove sometime around 2200 Saturday evening. Jaeger, Estes, and Zan Lynx spent the fest editing the Worst Scifi Trilogy Conclusion Ever. Bitscape worked on implementing the Content Collective login feature. (Which, despite hopes for the better, is still not in production. More in a bit.)

Shortly after the fest got underway, Zan Lynx had a hard drive problem, so he needed to reinstall Red Hat, delaying the video editing project by a few hours. Jaeger wheeled in a low resolution CRT device (also known as a "tv"), and we enjoyed watching many hilarious moments and outtakes from the filming of Worst Scifi.

Bitscape coded in fits and starts, getting much done, but also experiencing some frustration at how parts of the Content Collective code have evolved into such a hairy, inelegent mess. I suppose just about every project that progresses from being a one-time quick "what a fun idea to implement in a day!" hack to a non-trivial application is bound to experience some growing pains.

After the sun had been up for a while, I decided I was hungry for some McDonalds. Zan Lynx joined me for a quick trip to grab take out, where we got not only food, but even more caffeine (total caffeine overload).

Midmorning, Zan Lynx departed, and I located a couch near the alcove, and crashed for several hours. No dream memories to report.

I awoke at an indeterminite time, and resumed hacking activities (plus a bit of Content Collective ranting) while Jaeger slept.

Jaeger awoke, and he and Estes edited the rest of the live action footage from the Worst Scifi Trilogy Conclusion Ever.

I was astounded to learn that the time was nearly 1800. The whole day couldn't have disappeared that quickly, could it? Dinner preparations at the Boulder Compound were underway.

With the Collective Login code just a "smidgen" away from being fully functional, I packed up Argo, watched as the final scenes from the move were cut, lent Jaeger some choice DVDs, and departed.

Made a brief stop at mom's place on the way home to see the painting she had created. She had suggested that she, dad, and I eat out together. I decided to pass on that, since I was deathly tired, and wanted to get Argo setup back in the Castle Lair, and hopefully put the final bits into the login code before falling into a deep sleep.

Back at the Lair, it didn't take long to get Argo back in place, and after writing a few more lines of code, I had a fully functional barebones login system running on Argo's test collective.

I began transferring portions files rage, starting with the pieces that would not interfere with the existing collective code. I wisely wanted to test as much of the new stuff as possible before changing what would be seen in the main interface. That's where complications became apparent.

A missing Vars() feature in rage's ancient version of CGI.pm was easily worked around by adding a few extra lines, but a missing -a option in rage's version of the mail command proved a bit more difficult. (Unless, of course, having email containing Collective account info "From: www-data@localhost" is acceptable. I don't think it is.)

After a few minutes of reading man pages and experiminting, I decided to hold off for the moment, and leave the non-login version of the code in place. I went to sleep at 2100.

Now, I have a window with what is possibly the most conversation-free mass irc ever running adjacent to this one, along with a xine dvd window above. (Even though I gave it a rather mixed review a few weeks ago, a certain DVD featuring the Princess of Pop is on the verge of setting a record as the most played concert DVD in Bitscape's collection, assuming it hasn't done so already. Don't laugh too hard. I ain't the only fool in the world.)

Now conversation in the mass irc has started to pick up a tiny bit. Just a bit. I think I'll wrap this, and go to bed in a few.