Long time no post. Honestly, between the insanity that is my family's medical
life, dealing with one partner's server, and another partner's bird, I haven't
had too much time to myself lately. I mean, I've been working on a couple small
things, but nothing substantial.
For starters, I have all of my books in my desk bookshelf now, and six more
are on their way thanks to eBay. I've been trying to get a collection of older
Unix tomes together, just because... Well, I'm a bit of a tech history nut. I'd
make the _dragon hoard_ joke being dragonkin and all, but that'd be too cliche.
Still, having "The C Programming Language", "Using uucp and Usenet", "Managing
uucp and Usenet", and soon "Advanced Programming in the Unix Enviornment" in my
collection is really nice. I still need to get many of the other early Unix
pieces, like "The Awk Programming Language", and pretty much all of the ones by
Kernighan that weren't on my initial list.
I've also been working on learning two very specific things: the VIM editor,
and C programming. The former I had some experience in from before going over
to Emacs, but I've never done any actual programming, much less C programming.
My time with Perl has mostly been scripting, but I've been itching to learn a
more powerful language on the side, just for the times I really need it. Like
tearing down an application to fix it, instead of just sitting there and making
a bug report like that's all there is to it. I want to actually contribute, as
potentially both a documentation writer, and doing at least a little bit of the
work in fixing bugs.
Unfortunately, that's all I've really been up to. At least it's something,
though.
