I really should be in bed now... and I would be if I hadn't been contacted a couple hours ago by one of our clients. They were having trouble getting PHP 5.1.2 built on a Red Hat Linux 9.0 system.

In other words, a lame situation. RH9 hasn't been supported in... forever. PHP is just lame, period, but we do what we can.

This client isn't yet comfortable with building from source RPMs, so I told them I would take care of it. I've been building all kinds of dependencies for the last couple of hours just so I could build PHP from source. It looks like it's finally working.

It's going to take a while, though. This system is only a Pentium-II 450 Mhz. Yeah, that's another thing about this particular client. They like to keep using old hardware. I'm not really sure what's up with that.

Visiting Mussolini in Colorado

One reason I really should be in bed right now is because I'm supposed to be on the road in less than six hours to pick up my bandmates Thom and Daryn so we can join Matt and Tim and head to Steamboat Springs, CO for the first of two Sons Of Nothing shows.

Fun, right? Except the weather forecast is foreboding. A snowstorm is about to start dropping on us. I'm hoping by taking a southern route -- via US 40 -- we'll be spared some.

So, hopefully, the next update will be from CO.