Recently, I had a bit of a data loss scare where I couldn’t access my Google Account for a few hours. In the end it turned out to be a well-meaning Google protection mechanism that kicked in because I tried to access my account while on holiday on the Canary Islands. I have heard horror stories of people loosing their email histories stored in Gmail and this little incident got me scared enough to investigate backing up my email history outside of Gmail.

I’ve been following the git releases quite closely lately but I haven’t been able to find a RSS feed for the release notes. To scratch this itch I have written a little Ruby script that scrapes the git homepage and puts the release notes in an RSS feed ready for consumption.

I’ve started a new job and we are evaluating whether we would still like to use a server-side framework for HTML generation or whether we should go for a client-side DOM manipulation/JS-templates-only-approach where the browser calls into the API directly.

In the recent months or so I have written my first iPhone app and Apple has approved it last night!

Well, it’s not really that much but I’m proud nonetheless. I modified the ssh and sshd config syntax files and Bram has applied the patch to the vim source tree on Google Code.