Yeah, this blog still exists... and here's a meme to prove it...

(all the cool kids are doing it, apparently...)

Taken with the crappy webcam in my Dell laptop using the KDE screenshot tool to capture the window contents of the configuration panel of Kopete and using the Gimp to crop out the picture. I did have to play with the color balance of the webcam so I didn't come out too purple. I hope that's not against "the rules."

Just setting up some convenience aliases so I can deal better with timezones, I discovered this ...

rjones@l-rjones:$ TZ=BST date
Wed Aug 20 05:13:00 UTC 2008
rjones@l-rjones:~$ TZ=GB date
Wed Aug 20 06:13:40 BST 2008
rjones@l-rjones:~$

So it doesn't recognise the timezone TZ=BST but it displays the Great Britain time as "BST" :)

The convenience aliases, BTW, are:

alias edate="TZ=US/Eastern date"
alias wdate="TZ=US/Western date"
alias ukdate="TZ=GB date"

'cos I'm sick of trying to do this in my head (and getting it wrong) and because the few GUI programs out there suck.

I've been tasked to do some performance analysis on our new Travel Journal product (now "officially" with Fire Eagle support). The last time I worked for ekit I did a bunch of website performance testing and improvements.

I even wrote a tool to help me at the time! Last touched 5 years ago, and still at "rc1" :)

I'm now updating it (to Python 2.3 heh) and will release that 1.0 final that should've been released back then...

Excellent timing too, with the next challenge in a month's time!

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