on bloomsday

From The Economist: an unforgettable odyssey. And the NY Times has a great editorial today on Bloomsday and Ulysses. Quote:

[...] the real sound of this novel is the sound of the street a century ago: the noise of centuries of streets echoing over the stones.

Too bad I won't have time to participate in some of the events of Rejoyce 2004.

best laid plans

While the idea of the bloomsday release was to come out sometime in the afternoon (as my twisted reference to 5 pm in that post shows), the plan became meaningless after Danny found the not-yet-public login page to the new version and outed it on a MeFi thread. Luckily enough, this happened not long before the day started (not that it had ended that long ago) and so most of what we had planned to do during the day had to be done incrementally making sure the system stayed up.

So, without further ado, here's entry on the cactus log that discusses the release.

Now, most of the changes are in place and we have been fixing certain problems, such as linux install issues (noted in the newly-released clevercactus forums). But there's still a lot to do: documentation (particularly in what relates to firewalls, connectivity, etc), config options, and improving portions of the app and features.

Anyway. Back to work.

ps: Happy Bloomsday!