Entries from August 2006 ↓

Karen has already mentioned our joint YAPC::Europe talk called “My First CPAN Module“. We probably should rehearse it, or at least talk about it when I’m not watching South Park. I did read the outline she wrote, and I’m sure I could easily talk for at least an hour by following her plan.

We decided to do this talk together because we have different viewpoints. I’ve uploaded modules to CPAN so it makes sense to me. Karen was able to investigate the upload process from a first time perspective and so could spot the confusing parts. We hope that the combined perspective will make the talk useful.

I bought a small axe yesterday.  It’s great!  And it was fun using it to chop the branches off a small tree.  But the fun stopped when I sliced through the top of my thumb half way into my thumbnail.

This story would sound more dramatic and impressive if I finished it here, letting you believe that I injured myself with the axe.  But it wasn’t the axe that hurt me.  I was very accurate with the axe, and survived the branch removal with only three thorn stabs.  It was the cheese sandwich making that hurt me.  I’m blaming the deceptively dangerous cheese slicer.  Maybe I’ll chop it up with my new axe.