Just coming back from a career fair at CMU’s University Center, where I went to say hi to the people who manned the Mozilla booth. As I hadn’t come to engage in recruiting discussions, I neither carried a resume binder under my arm, nor was I dressed in a black suit like every other person who went there.

Quite amusingly, while the students dressed up in order to show off their seriousness, all of the recruiters were dressed casually in t-shirts or polo shirts and jeans in order to show how relaxed they were. Funny sight.

Lucky as I am, I also got a USB stick from the Cisco booth (thanks Rob for giving me yours, since you got the last one!)… It has 1GB, that’ll make for a great new root drive for my Slug (which currently runs on 512M). By the way, why can OS X’s Disk Util.app format an ext2 partition, but OS X can’t mount or read it? Very odd.

Oh, and just in case anyone was wondering how high the percentage of international students at CMU is:

As I signed up for twitter during a period of “high maintenance” (that’s polite for almost-constant brokenness), I encountered the fail whale quite often—and learned to like it, in its own way, because it had become a tradition of sorts, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

Twitter’s Charming “mascot”, the Fail Whale

And funnily, every time I visit the page in my Firefox instance, the Awesomebar keeps reminding me of the times when the whale was ubiquitous:

How nice: Nostalgia 2.0.

I promise, my blog is not going to turn into a “desktop wallpaper collection”, but this one is too cool not to show it to you:

“Ceci n’est pas le fond d’écran officiel de Firefox / This Is Not The Official Firefox Background Picture”

By the way, the photographer Denis-Carl Robidoux publishes a picture per day, all of which in different sizes to fit your screen, and for free, too.

The server migration I announced earlier should be complete now.

The DNS entries may still be a little wonky (if you had trouble reaching my web page or even sending me an email for a little while, that’s probably why), but apart from that all should be peachy. The new box is quite snappy, so that’s good!

Oh, of course the new server has a new name, too: Rest in peace, Aurora, and welcome to the family, Luna!