Happy Birthday Amanda!

Oh yeah, happy halloween too, but I find myself more and more celebrating tomorrow; the day of the dead. It has a better theme to it than running around the streets begging for sweets. Not that I have any complaints...

Month ten of my startup draws to a close. It was also right around a year ago that this whole venture came about to begin with. I started dropping by the store daily and learning the ropes in December, so I've almost seen the whole cycle now. everything but the traditionally dead November. It's been a long education.

Accounting irregularities. Hey, Mikey. Why did you add this column? It shoulda' been that column. Oh well, honest mistake, but it looks like we'll have to re-state earnings for the investors. What? The new numbers are good? And we didn't cook anything? Mikey, woohoo!, we've got profit and dividends. Double digit percentage dividends. And they're real. OK, we already spent 'em, but that doesn't matter. Cool, I guess I won't fire you today.

Started looking at some more of that old data. The email program I wrote at Stanford. Tried to build it. Ouch. Linux has changed since then. My code won't compile. Well in fact it wasn't my code that's broken. It's this message library from UW that I once relied on. Double ouch. Don't rely on somebody else's code. Over time it will either change to adapt or it won't - and either way you're screwed. Too late now. It's a real mess to try and get it working also. And its useful lifetime was over 3-4 years ago. Rather than waste a bunch of time working on it, think I'll just see if I can add the cool stuff I miss into Mozilla. So here I am compiling web browsers between sorting sheet music...