I've been in a good mood toward the end of this week as the stuff I've gotten done has reached that critical mass that makes me feel I'm accomplishing something.

First, I got a nice new domain for ikiwiki, with an irc channel for good measure, and there's also work on a Google Summer of code application for ikiwiki afoot.

Then there was rather a lot of useful feedback and patches on ikiwiki, and a few nights ago a very tricky race condition was discovered. Batting around possible fixes for it on irc for several hours was pretty useful, it's a lot easier to think about locking, deadlock, races, etc, when there are some other minds to share the thinking. I eventually came up with a fix that seems ok, around 5 am that morning. Yes, my sleep schedule has been suffering..

On Thursday I took a digression into RL to fix some cladding that was pulled away from the eves of my house by a badly attached cable. I ended up wandering around Lowe's for over an hour -- when did that become such a fun thing to do? Oh yeah, when I bought a house.. Some kids were playing hide and seek; maybe a bit dangerous there but it has to be the funnest possible place to do it. Anyway, amoung other things I bought a collapsable ladder and had an interesting time on it 2 stories up while avoiding the nearby electric wire. Also fixed a broken latch on my wardrobe.

Concurrent with all this, in $DAY_JOB, I've been working on the armel port of Debian, including getting d-i to work with it. Since this is an unofficial port, that is not gpg signed currently, this also gave me a chance to make d-i capable of dealing with an unsigned repository. Earlier this evening, I almost completed my first armel install on an nslu2, and I expect to release images by Monday.

Finally, AJ reminded me about an item that'd been on my TODO list for far too long; some way for James to deal with gpg keyrings that doesn't treat them as binary blobs. I'd been meaning to work on that for oh, 2 years? 3? And I must have been thinking about it in the background a bit, because I fairly quickly came up with this gpg changesets idea, which is basically a dedicated revision control system, and a data format that's not too horrible (though it could be much nicer with support in gpg). Quickly followed by a whole working sample implementation that I hope James, or someone, will find useful.