Software release day is next Monday. Same day I got relatives flying in and I gotta pick them up in the afternoon. This means that the rest of the crew gets to do the upgrade without me. I think I need codeine to get sleep between now and Monday night.

Not that I've been sleeping much lately. I've been up until godless hours working on ten man-days worth of work that needs to be done in two days. Yeah, it's that good.

Stress, what's that?

At least this weekend Alex will be with the grandparents so we got to go to Prog Nation 2008 with Dream Theater and Opeth. Oh yeah! Plus we'll get a nice dinner by ourselves and a night w/o He-Who-Uses-His-Mom-As-Pillow-And-His-Dad-As-Foot-Rest.

And why am I using my Cylon icon? Because of this:

New Basic Element For Electronic Circuits: 'Memristor' Could Give Computers Memories That Don't Forget
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080501155234.htm

Current computer memory is either stored in magnetic wells on your hard drives (slow) or between capacitors as in main memory (volatile).  This new memristor is supposedly both fast and non-volatile.  And really small.  5 nanometers, about the size of a sugar molecule. 

While I do nominally hold an electrical engineering degree, I have to say that EE people needs to come up with better names.  "Memristor"?  Sounds like a bad marketing move from 1999 for some failed dotcom (like the ones I was in *hides in shame*).

OK, back to work.