When I left home for college, I planned to take my heavily, hackily upgraded 386 (actualy a Cyrix Cx486DLC) along with me. It had two full-height ESDI hard drives, and the weird, exposed ribbon cable on the back of one broke about two weeks before I left home. I quickly sold a bunch of things I owned, begged some cash from my dad, and purchased an AT&T mid-tower (a Globalyst, which later became an NCR line). This Pentium 90MHz, marvin, lasted through most of college, and was finally replaced by a Compaq that looked good in the store but turned out to be a real pain.

Today, we tried out Greekers, the new place from Billy – the guy behind Billy’s. I don’t know whether we’ll be going back in the near future, even though it wasn’t a horrible experience.

For quite some time now, most distributions uploaded to the CPAN include the file META.yml. This file was introduced by Module::Build, and describes the contents of the distribution. It helps the PAUSE indexer and other tools figure out what the distribution is and contains without a lot of analysis.

At long last, I’ve begun really tying together a number of things all meant to be used together. So far, it’s been a huge success and I’m really happy with it. They are:

Just over a year ago, I complained about the complexity of Git tutorials found online. My complaint was something like this: /I have no damn idea how Git works, and I’m using it just fine. Stop suggesting that people need to understand how all these things work and just explain the commands./

This list was inspired by my buddy Marcelo, who made a similar list. These are not in any particular order.

I didn’t really know who this Vincent Pit character was until a couple years ago when Variable::Magic showed up. It was pretty cool, and then I’d see him saying crazy cool things on the p5p IRC channel. At some point I said, “Hey, Vincent. I bet you’re just the guy to convince to make it possible to localize something in a higher scope.”

I gave up on index cards for OmniFocus about a year ago. OmniFocus was pretty easy to deal with, and it meant I didn’t need to carry around index cards and a pen. Not too much later, I gave up OmniFocus for Hiveminder. Hiveminder was available from anywhere on the network, and its IM-based interface was fantastic.

Some time ago I wrote an entry about RCN’s dumb password questions. Today, I got to deal with this crap again. I tried to reset my password and saw:

As I recently explained in an email to the Dist::Zilla list, Pod::Weaver is on hold while I’m too busy with other priorities. This has been a holdup for Dist::Zilla, as its Pod::Weaver integration is my big need.