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The Firefox 1.5.0.2 release was intense! And by intense, I mean a non-event. We pushed updates to 10’s of millions of clients without any major server-side hiccups. I think this is best exemplified by an email from my mom, “My update took at least 1.5 seconds. Pretty darn fast.” Keep in mind that my mom is the sort of user that calls when she drags the Firefox icon off the dock, “Where did my FoxFire go!?!?!?”.

So yeah, “here here” to some darn good sysadmining (dave, aravind, mrz, oremj, and justin) on top of an overall smooth release .

In CSS499 (organic farming) we were asked to find some soil and write about it. In order to complete this mission I headed out to the resting garden (it was about midnight). Laptop in one hand, shovel in the other, it was easy to dig up some tasty dirt. First impressions yielded a medium clay, but closer examination revealed a loose, porous, rich soil. The micro-ecosystem contained many worms and organics, such as roots from plants past. As I held the dirt, it crumbled before me in an act of fertility, not futility. The soil was lush and begging for more life, so Tenant Emily decided it was time to plant some lettuce, broccoli, and onions. Under the burning white of a headlamp she did just that, and now the soils of chateau-geek are closer then ever to their basal symbiotic relationship — dirt and plant.

I caught my first steelhead (on a fly) this weekend on the north fork of the Alsea! Woot. It was a 12-13lb brown buck. Had to chase it for about 200yds, at which point I fell… got a little wet, but still landed the fish!

I’ve been meaning to blog about this for awhile, but we have a new geek here at Chateau Geek (my house). Emily is a brilliant young lady (she was smart enough to move in with us!), studying all sorts of interesting things. Yep, so, welcome Emily.