Sheesh, what a day. Went into the office looking forward to having the place to myself, only to find that the entire infrastructure had not yet been brought back up after a weekend of power testing in the facility. In disbelief I booted my workstation anyway, hoping something might pop up. Nope. I went to the LAN room, and the only thing running were the cooling fans of the cabinets. I pondered powering up the backbone and the mail and resource servers myself, but then thought better of it. That would be a pretty cavalier maneuver for someone who is a guest consultant.

In dismay I headed back to the house with the hope of prototyping some Servlet Filter mockups for the security mechanism I have to integrate into our Spring-based application at work. It was then that I discovered that my troubles last week with Eclipse reliably causing the IBM PowerPC 1.4.2 JDK to core dump were not over. I spent hours trying different options to overcome this obstacle; no luck. I did end up filing Eclipse bug reports #97375 and #97378, which will hopefully help the cause.

You know, I am thankful that the woeful tales of those who do corporate blogging have caught the eye of mainstream media. It helps remind me to keep my mouth shut when I am having days like the last 30 or so at work. 8^)