Judging from my server logs, someone's added this site to their rss reader.  Normally that wouldn't be remarkable, but whoever it is has IIS7 on their machine serving the default page to the public.   It's odd to see a home machine configured to expose the web server to the public, and yet have it serving the default page.  I thought about running a more detailed query, but that would be rude, especially since whoever owns that server will likely see this.  You know who you are ;)

I contributed my fix for the Project84Grass theme --on which this blog is based-- back to the project.  This constitutes my first real Open Source contribution.  Unfortunately, it's just a style sheet change, not "real code", and it looks like the project is not currently well maintained so the fix may never make it back into production.

Took yesterday off of work to go to a free Microsoft conference.  Got some free stuff, including a few pens (of course), a lunch box, and a free copy of Vista Ultimate.  So, of course, I spent yesterday evening installing Vista.  So far it's working much better than the buzz would lead you to believe.

One of the other programmers moved on for greener pastures last week.  Another programmer took his old cube, since it has a window.  I took his mouse.  As you can probably tell from the title, it's wireless.

So far I'm non-plussed.  There's no thumb button that tells your web browser to go back, and the scroll wheel is frustrating- it feels like the wireless connection just drops scroll actions now and then.  Of course, it's still less frustrating than my old mouse, which would actually go backwards nearly as often as not, so I'm keeping it for now.