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I'm finally getting around to putting Ubuntu Hardy Heron on my new T61 laptop. The experience so far has been superb.

This is the current message filter UI for GMail mocked up to include a couple of additional filters I want. The new filters are highlighted in a red box. A screenshot of the unaltered UI can be seen here.

This is the current message filter UI for GMail as grabbed on May 24, 2008.

I was setting up my SIGPWNED emails to forward to my GMail accounts. I thought I had the forwards configured properly, but my test emails never came through, so I thought that GMail might be flagging my SIGPWNED messages as spam. To rule out that possibility, I thought I'd install a "not spam" filter to make sure the emails got through the spam filter and into my inbox. Imagine my surprise when I found that GMail defines no such filter type:

Drupal is the content management system that SIGPWNED is built on top of. My experience so far, in 10 words or less? "Really, really good."

Currently Reading: 

Pro Drupal Development

John K. VanDyk, Matt Westgate

$29.69 (Paperback)

One of my responsibilities as a Software Performance Analyst for WebSphere Business Monitor is to create prototypes for medium to large code changes that will improve the performance of the WebSphere Monitor software stack. In developing a recent prototype, I was having trouble making heads or tails of why a particular XML parsing toolkit wasn't working right, so at work on Wednesday my team lead, Kean, and I walked through some of the code together. As we thought about how the parser was behaving in certain circumstances, Kean always seemed to know the next thing to try to figure out how to make the parser work, and as I thought about why I had an epiphany: software development is not software testing.