I’m a person who gives ridiculously great importance to small things. Sometimes it’s a bad thing – I notice every little thing, meaningful or not, and sometimes it’s a good thing – it doesn’t take much to make my day or make me happy. I’ll give you an example, and you’ll understand a bit.

Today’s Monday. Everyone hates Mondays, I’m no exception to the rule. I think that Mondays are life’s way of getting payback for a nice weekend (I believe that’s a quote from Sean Coates or someone else on Twitter). So I don’t have high expectations for Mondays. However, I had a pretty good Monday! It started by getting to work, finishing in 3 hours a task that was estimated to 4 hours – then figuring out what I’d do for the rest of the day. I didn’t have anything assigned, so I ended up working on my Subversion/TortoiseSVN talk I’ll do on the 29th. So while working on that, I had to search for some stuff in the PHP Manual. I remembered I had seen a news posted on the front page that said a new system was online. I guess at that point the evil marketing influence took over, and I suggested on Twitter that someone should redirect all the pages to docs.php.net if we wanted to use that new system. I had it wrong though, but that’s not the point.  The point is that Rasmus Lerdorf, the PHP man himself, corrected me. It kinda warmed my heart a little that the big guy was talking to me. I guess that’s a bit of fanboyism, but whatever. Last time Rasmus talked to me, he was autographing my laptop at the 2007 PHP Quebec Conference, so it’s an improvement

I know, it’s stupid, but it’s a little thing that just makes me happy, even if he’s telling me I’m wrong and I can’t read for shit.

Then, I tweeted about the Not Tested on IE Initiative, and people quoted me on it. It’s always a nice thing to know (indirectly) that people value your opinions and interests.

Aside from that, I progressed a lot in my presentation for Subversion/TortoiseSVN that I’ll present on the 29th to coworkers, so that they know the how, the what and the why we’re (going to be) using Subversion for our projects. My boss (one of them anyway) said he was proud of me, so that’s always a good thing. It’s much needed, in my case and precarious situation, so it’s appreciated.

I’ve been wanting to use the nvidev’s twitter to post updates about NVI’s development team views, opinions and general rantings. I’ll be doing that as soon as Gnome-Do allows me to reconfigure my Twitter plugin…

I was also invited to be an author for NVI Solutions’ blog, but with obviously a more technical take on things. I think I’d like that. I could keep this blog for personal rantings and use NVI’s blog for everything technical, or programming. I’ll keep you posted on what happens with that.

Oh. And.. I WANT CUPCAKES.