intertwingly

For those who wonder about such things, must of my play time over the past few weeks has been consumed by two things: tweaking and reinstalling software, and the evolving Apache reorg.

As for the former, I knew I was living on borrowed time as my Windows installation on my thinkpad was well beyond its half life, and when it got to the point where my VPN software refused to work, I knew it was time for a complete reinstall.  This time I invested the time to track down the patches required to get XP to run more or less stably.  I also upgraded to JDK 1.4 on my linux machine, had to move where Gump builds were placed due to space concerns, etc.  Each required more effort than they should, as leaky abstractions and outright lies ("fully compatible with previous J2SE releases") abounded.  And one should never hard code a URL in a script.  'nuff said.

All in all, I am still way behind on several things I promised to get done over the last few weeks, but I think I've turned the corner on this one for now.  Meanwhile, the clock is ticking on my new install of Windows...