In what began as a rather low key mass irc gathering, Jaeger helped me fix a rather nasty bug in the collective login code which prevented it from recognizing handles with non-word characters (as defined by perl's regex engine). (I define "helped" as informing me of the fact that the bug existed, so I could go about diagnosing it and creating a fix.) Also added a small requested feature to set the username cookie when a user logs in. The source tarball has been updated.

Prior to this, I watched / listened to the commentary track for A Friend in Need. It is most entertaining to listen to the people who have created the show we all know and love over the years discuss it ("we all" defined in this context as the Xenites of the world). Also, the behind the scenes stuff rocked. Reminded me of my own scifi acting days, such as they were. lol.

It seemed like it would be a good idea to type some really dumb april fools rambling, but nothing good came to mind, and I don't think anything I could come up with would top the day-long idiocy at slashdot. Besides, April 1 is almost over now. Oh well. (It had occurred to me to actually watch and log Battlefield Earth on April 1 for real this year, on the premise that nobody would believe it anyway. A sort of reverse April fools joke. But it didn't actually materialize.)

I watched a TNG episode (The Big Goodbye) in the background while debugging collective code. Another trip down memory holodeck lane.

I then became preoccupied with a couple of buttons on my dvd player remote when I realized I had no idea what they did, so I went into rtfm mode. Whoever would have thought I could program it to (sort of) remember state information about multiple discs that had been ejected and re-inserted? I queried Jaeger, who confirmed my suspicion that nobody (not even myself) actually makes use of such arcane features, but they are cool anyway.

Inevitably, the dvd feature-testing session degenerated into a Britney "I love rock'n'roll" [misnomer] show, which is still in progress.

Linknoid, surviving on a diet of 2-day-old french fries and a B5 tv movie download, joined the virtual gathering.

Now, mass irc is coming to an end, and so is this rambling. Signing out...