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Today was my first day at work. I needed to use the Gringotts secure notes application, for which I've been maintaining a patch, to read some files. So I built it by downloading the gringotts-1.2.9pre1 archive from the Debian servers, and applying my patch from my site. However, when I invoked the preferences dialog, it crashed. So I decided to check it at home.

Back at home, I found that I couldn't reproduce the crash. However, a version that I compiled using the archive and patch still crashed. What I found out after a small amount of debugging was that I fixed this regression in my local repository back in July, but did not release a new patch to fix it for the rest of the world. (Including me at work). Quite the negligence on my part.

So today, I updated the changelog, tagged the trunk, created a new patch, uploaded it to my site, and posted an annoucement on Freshmeat (which isn't on the front page yet). I'll try to be more responsible in this regard in the future.

As for my first day at work - today I set up my work computer. I installed Mandriva on it using the Mandriva One 2007 CD, and coped with several problems that arised in getting myself up and running. At the end of the day, everything that I wanted to be working was (except perhaps for the gringotts "preferences" dialog).