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David Lynch 11:25 pm on September 4, 2015  

Looking into the past

I’m poking through WordPress.com again, as I’m currently engaged in a trial period for working at Automattic. This gives me some motivation to be more familiar with the things I’d be working on, after all.

It’s very strange reading this blog, which I last updated 9 years and one month ago… I think mostly in parallel with my LiveJournal, at the time. This dates me a bit.

What might be strangest about the experience is the reminder that I’m old enough now that I can look at content I wrote 10 years ago and realize that I’m fundamentally the same person, without a huge change. The me who wrote these blog entries couldn’t say that.

David Lynch 5:49 pm on August 4, 2006  

World of Warcraft addons

I likes me the addons. In fact, elevating me to new heights of geekiness, I writes me the addons. Not that you could tell from my journal, since I’ve been very, very quiet about it here. In fact, addon writing has received only one mention ever.

I currently have four addons out there:

FuBar – QuestsFu
A quest tracker plugin for FuBar, which is a Titan Panel alternative (a little bar on your screen for things to show info on).
FuBar – ToFu
A flight time tracker for FuBar. Sadly neglected currently. Mainly written for the silly name.
FuBar – KungFu
A skills tracker for FuBar.
AuldLangSyne
Remembers things about your friends, so you still have some idea who they are when they’re offline. Also allows you to make notes.

A side-effect of all this is that most of the addons I use I get from svn.wowace.com. So part of my daily playing routine is to run “svn update *” in my addons directory to get everything up to the latest version. Very convenient.

Now you know something of what has taken up my time.

David Lynch 1:57 pm on August 2, 2006  

FicWad

Approving category suggestions for the Celebrities category makes me feel dirty.

(We now have a Paris Hilton category. This will be a trainwreck of epic proportions.)

David Lynch 11:42 pm on July 29, 2006  

2225

The heatwave ends, and now we get the blackouts?

David Lynch 10:17 am on July 28, 2006  

2224

T-Mobile phone menu system: Welcome to T-Mobile, how can I help you?
Me: My voicemail isn’t working.
T-Mobile: You said “goodbye”, is that right?
Me: No.
T-Mobile: Thanks for calling. Have a nice day! *click*

…

I’m just calling back and not pressing anything until it gives in and transfers me to a customer service person.

UPDATE: There we go. I have called T-Mobile, and had them re-enable voicemail on my phone.
Apparently — and I only found this out at the con when Assassin mentioned it to me — calling my phone when I’m not picking up got an error about an invalid voicemail inbox. This was, it seems, because when Kellie got her new phone we switched to a family plan… and their system likes to sometime cancel voicemail service when that happens. So I haven’t had voicemail for something like three months.