Maha Kali

When I first started this blog my plan was to write someting everyday, but it has turned out to be more like once per week. Will try and write more once the Viva etc is done.

This week was really busy at work. Some huge companies are testing our product before buying and the bugs keep on coming at an alarming rate. This is not weird, though, as we never can set up and try all possible weird network and OS configurations in our test lab. The week was also quite challenging for me personally as I was responsible for releasing the latest version of our product. This mostly involved overseeing that various things like testing got done in time, merging various bug fixes to the current release from other CVS branches (we have at least three different main branches at any given time), various CVS trickery, and building the RPMs and Windows installers (yes, our appliance runs on RedHat :-( - but at least the underlaying Sun hardware is quite sexy!)). It was quite stressful with a few late merges of features from other branches, but fun and after a two week process the release was done with two hours to go.

Apart from work I haven't done much. Still reading 'Collapse' - the chapters about Iceland and Greenland are definitely the most interesting part of the book! Maybe the most interesting fact is that the vikings on Greenland didn't eat fish - almost no fish bones have been found in excavations even though the waters and rivers of Greenland are full of fish. In the biggest excavation site 36.000 animal bones were found, of them only 26 came from the single tail of a cod. How come they didn't eat more fish? Probably some weird religious taboo. Watch out kids - this is what religion can do to you.