Let's see, what's been happening here. Oh, a friend asked me a couple of fun riddles (see extended text for hints):

Riddle 1: There are three jars, each containing an undetermined number of identical marbles. Two jars contain marbles that weigh 5.0 grams each, while one jar contains marbles that weigh 5.1 grams. Given a scale, find which jar contains the 5.1 gram marbles, with one and only one (no more or less) measurement.

Riddle 2: You are in a room, which is connected to an adjacent room through a door (which is initially closed). You can not see anything in the adjacent room. The room you are in has 3 light switches, one of which is connected to a light in the adjacent room. Your task is to determine which switch controls the light. You can flip the switches all you want, but you can only open the door, enter the adjacent room, or otherwise check on the status of the light once (no more, no less).

I like riddles. My science teacher gave me a good one in highschool that took me a couple of days to solve (I solved the above in around 10 minutes... which I guess is still pretty slow). Unfortunately, I can't remember the riddle, but it involved black and white hats, a couple of people and one blind person. If you know the riddle, please let me know...

I got an email from an IlohaMail contributor in South America, informing me that a certain government ministry in one of the larger countries in South America is currently evaluating IlohaMail for use by its 7000 or so employees. If this works out, it won't be the largest IlohaMail installation (the largest known installation is still GOL with ~20k users), but it will be the largest known installation at a government organization. This is significant for me mostly because I'm a firm believer in Open Source in the public sector, where the principles of OSS is inline with public interest. They can deploy IlohaMail for free, which is significant enough, but what's more, they're also free to hire local developers to make whatever changes/fixes are required. That way, public funding goes back to the people, instead of some rich corporation (or poor college student) in some rich ass country. BTW, stats have been way up since 0.8.10 was released. I'm consistently hitting 1000 page views/day, and close to 100 downloads per day (only counting dls from sf.net).

Apparently the student paper is doing a follow up article to the Electronic Civil Disobedience campaign. The questions again started with "have you received a C&D yet" but I ended up writing a manifesto (a.k.a. a long-assed rant). Hopefully they'll spell my name right this time too.

Tomorrow I think I have something that, under certain geothermal conditions and squirrel alignments, might be considered a date. At least, I hope it will be, assuming that I have the right squirrel conditions and acorn... wait, whatever it was. You might hear more about... or you might not. I might be a giraffe, or I might not be.
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