puts "# 20 != [expr pow($e,$pi)-$pi] http://xkcd.com/217/"

set pi [expr acos(-1)]
puts "# pi=$pi = acos(-1) == [expr atan(1)*4] = atan(1)*4"
# pi=3.141592653589793 = acos(-1) == 3.141592653589793 = atan(1)*4
set e [expr exp(1)]
puts "# e=$e"
# e=2.718281828459045
puts "# 20 != [expr pow($e,$pi)-$pi] http://xkcd.com/217/"
# 20 != 19.99909997918947 http://xkcd.com/217/

lovely webcomics, current reading: Ctrl-Alt-Del, xkcd, Moosehead stew, Eragon, Mossflower, Herd, ...

I FINALLY caught up to where I had discovered and started Ctrl-Alt-Del webcomic half way: http://www.cad-comic.com/cad/20040204 Now I just have to find where I left off somewhere probably a year or so after that one again and read to last or current. Very funny, laughing out loud almost sometimes. Don't like the weird cook though. No.

Others I follow now regularily (my regularity being occasional binges interspersed with sometimes months of not following).

http://xkcd.com/ SO excellent. So clever. I want the t-shirt! Oh wait. I have two! :) - A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language - By Randall Munroe


http://www.mooseheadstew.com/  So lovely. Ever so slightly madly geeky (or is that geekily mad?) indian (as in red Canadian/American) comic artist. There are hedgehogs on occasion!
http://www.weregeek.com/ Alina(of Moosehead stew)'s polished comic aboutish a gang of gaming geeks.

http://www.freakangels.com/
Warren Ellis's Freakangels. Every Friday.
Like the best of what might be in 2000AD. Original.
Not safe for kids, nor is Ctrl-Alt-Del sometimes and on occasion.

 http://www.warrenellis.com/

http://thedailywtf.com/

http://www.geekculture.com/joyoftech/index.html

We like lovely pictures and stories.


In paper form I've finished one of Daire's books - and another, Brisinger the 3rd of Eragon cycle which I've finally got. Nice. Grand. I like a good yarn. With different creatures and cultures. But mmmh the magic maybe in a way is too powerful and makes things too easy. And I don't know how the dragon puts up with being in Eragon's head the whole time as one book is enough :-P for now anyway :)

And I'm on a nice mousey tale now. Mossflower. Warrior mouses. Like the rats of Nimh + Wind & the Willows only a bit more feudal.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mossflower
http://browse.deviantart.com/?qh=&section=&q=mossflower

And there are 8 or so other books on the pile as usual.

Also reading Herd: How to Change Mass Behaviour by Harnessing Our True Nature http://www.amazon.co.uk/Herd-Change-Behaviour-Harnessing-Nature/dp/0470060360 I can't even edge in on a conversation and influence one person mostly. Sometimes I can with my kids. The younger ones! So I'm very curious how to influence people en-masse. Onward! Towards a liberal fun greener lovlier future.  Surprised the intro/other stuff pitches it as a marketing/advertising business book. Cool ideas, very thought provoking, makes sense OF course we've a huge herd instinct, he illustrates and describes this working in different ways very very well.

svn merge testing

Work from home wed.

Very very busy in work.
* Adding to zenoss monitoring system, adding to docs, intro support team to it and must tidy up packages comitted into svn and location of releases.
* Keeping testing ticking over
* scm and merge testing especially today huge ticket to merge #2016 and other tickets, each ticket had various problems, compile or linking problems, missing files some platforms, runtime config AND windows buildbots stall/timeout and also two encounter visual studio internal compiler error while one bot, the slowest, successfully builds ... eventually.

Break from work for tea and girls bedtime.
Fionn goes shopping so me back to work.
But I take a break and do this: http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?23273#comment4

Index: remake.c
===================================================================
RCS file: /sources/make/make/remake.c,v
retrieving revision 1.137
diff -u -r1.137 remake.c
--- remake.c 5 Nov 2007 14:15:20 -0000 1.137
+++ remake.c 9 Jul 2008 16:58:29 -0000
@@ -353,6 +353,13 @@

if (!keep_going_flag)
{
+      // bug #23273: http://xkcd.com/149/ 
+      if (!strncmp ("me", file->name, 3))
+ if (getuid())
+   fputs ("What? Make it yourself.\n", stderr), die (2);
+        else
+   fputs ("Okay.\n", stderr), die (2);
+
if (file->parent == 0)
fatal (NILF, msg_noparent, "", file->name, ""); 

That's been in my head ever since I saw it on make bugs mailing list.
Maybe I can stop thinking about it now :)

Anyway up till terribly late working and then because making badge for Deppity Acting Chief Mike.
Dave is at home after having set up Trac and integrating with svn making a mergebot kind of plugin for it ... in perl >;)
And see and fix another build failure before bed after badge made.

Up at 8 in morning and YAY! #2016 good to merge. merge.
Then rebranch Dave and Paul's tickets.
Both have conflicts, also on .sln files. Send email, start tests on other tickets for merge later....