Yom Kippur Summary - 2008

This is this year's Yom Kippur summary. As has been the tradition for several years, on every Yom Kippur, I'm going over the blog entries from the previous year and try to draw some conclusions.

Well, I'm going to be brief today. This year, I quit a job that I didn't like (that had me writing email processing code in PHP with Sendmail and MySQL running on the computer), and worked for 4 months in another job, which I first liked, but then I found of its ugly side, which caused me to stress out completely. I eventually got fired from it.

The second part of the year starting from April was characterised by many periods of stress and anger. Part of it was due to me losing the job, part of it was due to me trying to get involved in the August Penguin conference, which was mis-managed, mis-organised, and where there was too little essential communication, and part of it was due to my decision to run to the Hamakor (the Israeli FOSS NPO) board (which I since cancelled).

This year, my Mandriva Linux Cooker system has caused me a lot of problems, with a lot of elements of my computer working-environment that used to work before, stopping to work for a time. I was able to fix most of them, but it still caused a lot of aggravations. I should note that Cooker is the Mandriva bleeding edge and is supposed to break. At the end of the year though I was able to fix many bugs: with fonts, with the broken router I had that blocked the Internet for my Linux machine, and now everything is mostly back to normal.

I continued to contribute to open-source software this year, including many things to scratch my itches, which I decided to release to the world. Often the programs caused problems, or the co-developers were not communicative, but as a general rule, I'm happy using Linux and other free software.

I worked on some stories and essays this year, which feels good.

So, that's it, I guess. Gmar Hatimah Tovah, everybody, and happy Sukkoth.