pcal.net

I’ve been doing some re-arranging here to separate my private and professional lives. This blog, such as it is, is now going to be exclusively for personal, non-technical stuff.

From now on, typical items appearing in this space will be of the form:

  I went to a movie and it sucked

or

  I found a shiny thing on the internets

Anything technical or plausibly professional will be posted on my company’s blog:

  http://www.sutrotech.com

That is all.

I’ve released a bug fix update to MTMaps. Thanks for the bug reports, keep ‘em coming.


v0.6.1 (10/9/06)

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* Added per-blog enable/disable toggle to plugin settings



* Changed the default of the Mapdata Retrieval template to be
. The default excerpt generation
in MT was causing some problems that would typically be manifest as
an error about ” Can’t call method ‘words_in_excerpt’…”



* Fixed an incompatibility with Internet Explorer that would
typically result in pages failing to display with an (extremely helpful)
“Operation Aborted” message.



We here at pcal.net have been enjoying the offseason, but it’s time to get back to it. A lot has happened since our last entry; in the last couple of months, I

• Got married and went to Tahiti
• Bade adieu to my lovely new wife, Grace, as she moved back to Boston for the fall
• Left my job at Terracotta
• Began a new consulting startup writing some new Java BI software
• Went to a bunch of baseball games

Briefly

• Leaving Terracotta was a tough call. I had a lot of fun there, and I’ll miss working with those smart folks.
• However, I’m also having a lot of fun now. I set my own hours. I’m learning about data warehousing. I’m hacking again. I’ve been able to see friends more and get more things done around the house while still getting a lot of work done. As long as I can continue to stay out of the World of Warcrack, I should be fine.
• I got to see Oakland clinch the AL West at Safeco, and more recently win the ALDS. Going to ALCS this week. They really are going to go all the way this year.
• I fixed pcal.net so that you L7s using IE can see it without that lovely and helpful ‘Operation Aborted’ message. (p.s. The problem was actually in Movable Type maps plugin, MTMaps). (p.p.s. Get a real browser).

That’s all for now. Sorry for being gone so long. I missed you, too.