Happy New Year

2006 is dead, thank God. The first acts of 2007: finish reading the rules to Arkham Horror and then trying to decide if I should pick a new SCM package.

There's nothing wrong with Codeville that some development wouldn't fix, but the last version of the software is 10 months old, and not because the package is finally perfect. If the project is abandoned, there's little point in using it for new projects that could benefit from active support.

The current darlings are Mercurial and Darcs, and I haven't played with either of them, but Darcs has a lot of nerds who just seem to love the intelligence of its merging. Me? I just want something that the author maintains and that isn't MS Visual SourceSafe.

So I'll be sticking to Codeville for now, but I'm looking into other contenders and will probably be playing with Tailor so I can convert between source control repositories.

Nifty.

I'm not nearly as inebriated as I thought I'd be, but leaving the gin at home will do that. There's nothing at this party but fruity mixes and tequila, neither of which appeal to me, so I'm just keeping it down to a beer and a glass of champagne. Erica, on the other hand, has gone into full-on bitey slappy mode. And she still wants to play "Never Have I Ever", ensuring that she's probably going to be nauseous and cranky for the next 12 hours.

Better that I didn't try any of those mixed drinks, methinks, or I'd be nauseous and cranky, too.

Happy New Year, everybody. Here's to hoping that 2007 doesn't suck nearly as badly as 2006 did. Somehow, I doubt that could actually happen.