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Grrrrr

1:04pm JST Thursday 3 April 2008 (day 13889)

The good news: we got the live system moved to svn. That's good.

The bad news: fucking guy didn't follow the instructions I gave which specified the use of asvn so that the directory permissions would be set along with the file download. I think that must be what happened, but I don't know yet, because we are "too busy" looking at a different directory permissions issue.

There's some code in one of our php files that's something like

if(!isfile($dirname))
{
    mkdir ($dirname);
}

And we need to add code that changes the directory permissions. Although I don't actually know why it's suddenly a problem *now*, given that 43 directories had been created with the old code, and they apparently worked just fine.

One way to test the code by making it trigger the mkdir code would be to mv the current directory somewhere and run the code. That would be pretty fast.

Another way would be to add an else

if(!isfile($dirname))
{
    mkdir ($dirname);
}
else
{
    $crapdirname = "/tmp/monkey";
    mkdir ($crapdirname);
    chmod ($crapdirname, 0777);
}

And then move the code once we know it works.

Or, and this is the way that's been suggested, we'll upload 62 (sixty-two) files until the existing directory reaches capacity and triggers the next mkdir.

- - - -

But that's not what's got me all riled up. One of my key personal triggers is being ignored or people not listening when I speak. This keeps me quiet a lot. So when guy apparently didn't follow the instructions I sent, that triggers me. Fucking why did I spend all day yesterday writing up that shit if you're not going to use it? I could have just wanked off all day and we'd be just as well off now, and I wouldn't be pissed off.

AND, trying to speak Japanese, and repeatedly repeatedly repeatedly always not fucking being understood is a nice way to trigger me. That keeps me quiet as well. I need to get to the bottom of this issue.

- - - -

There was a time in my I-group that we were looking at this, in regards to Allen the dork at my ex-ex-...ex-ex-job not listening or something, and I flashed on a scene where I was in the war and my buddy didn't listen as I told him he was incorrectly loading a bazooka or some shit and when he fired it, something blew out the back as well and ripped him in half dead (or as dead as one would be when ripped in half, but with brain still working, going "oh shit that hurts; what am I doing on the ground?"). The scene was quite vivid; I remember it even now though it's been ten years since I had the memory. Only weird thing about it: I was never in a war with army buddies, etc. wtf was that?

Anyway, there's obviously more work to be done in this department of my mind.

Okay now

3:53pm JST Thursday 3 April 2008 (day 13889)

I'm feeling way better now. I was able to explain that asvn shoulda been used instead of svn this morning. I fixed the directory issues with a semi-risky technique that worked well enough:

# cd /home
# mv livedir livedir.old; mv livedir.new livedir

And I just now figured out how/why to use trunk and tags, though I'm not necessarily clear on the value of branches given that they don't actually rejoin the trunk, but I can live with that for now. I created a tag called はじめまして, but using romanji to represent the word.

Work

4:21pm JST Thursday 3 April 2008 (day 13889)

And just got the /home/ directory cleaned the hell up. We had tons of copies of copies of copies of code all over the place this morning, but now it's all either been deleted or moved to a directory called 20080403unused. I'll be deleting that after a while.

4:26pm JST

Okay. Right after I go poo, I'ma create a branch in the repository and see if I can sort out how they're useful, by actually trying to use it. svn merge, here I come.

6:34pm JST

Created a branch easily enough, of course, and used switch in my working directory to use it.. wasn't able to get the code changes made, but I'm gonna get outta here and head lesson with ゆりか.

Yurika lesson+Pink Cow

10:38pm JST Thursday 3 April 2008 (day 13889)

Good learning with Yurika today. She did a great job on her homework, and had good questions. I asked her a question about something over which she had glossed, and I knew she didn't understand it as well as she could. I'm pretty pleased with how I was able to gently tilt thoughts her way until she got the answer.

I had randomly decided to go to Pink Cow today, so after the lesson, I invited Yurika to join if she wanted to go. I wondered what the Cow would feature tonight... For 1000 yen cover that included a drink ticket, there were movie presentations including a woman named Katee (pronounced Katie) who's from Philly, has lived in Glasgow for 6 years, but was just in India for 3 months, all for some research on various forms of dance.

AND, at the entrance was a little setup to video people for the World Wide Wave; they were recording individuals doing the wave in exchange for a free drink, so I was like, "word," and Yurika did her own wave as well.

We happened to sit beside Katee and her sis-in-law AnneMarie and chatted with them a bit between and during the other presentations. AnneMarie has been here for a year with her husband, and Katee will be here for 5 more weeks.

a critter

7:00pm JST Thursday 3 April 2008 (day 13889)

I think I'm going to buy a different animal (other than Jacques, who will be bought by Kris) and start another wiki and send his ass out into the wild. I'll keep an eye out for the perfect thing. Perhaps a critter that is its own envelope would be cool. Like the invertable pillows; this would be a dragon or something that could invert into a package that could be mailed!

a new outlook

10:47pm JST Thursday 3 April 2008 (day 13889)

During the business card exchange, I wrote my name and email on a scrap of paper, while Katee had these cool little business cards. I was like, "note to self: make some cards," and then I thought about getting a card holder to keep them nicely before I hand them out, and then

(dramatic pause)

I had a flash on actually doing something crazy like buying a new shirt so I might have a more refined / well-raised look about me, and I noted how that would/could help me feel more confident about myself in social situations. Hmmmmm.

These are exactly some of the things Kim Sawyer suggested back in the day, but at that time I was like, "yeah yeah whatevah," but now I'm like, "hmmmm; could be nice....."