With the closing of The Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus it appears my backup plan of running away to join the circus is less of a viable option.

This past weekend my computer showed an ominous error:

Jan 1 04:06:16 lister mdadm[8317]: RebuildFinished event detected on md device /dev/md/0, component device mismatches found: 9856 (on raid level 1)

Huh, that doesn't look particularly good. Mismatches between drives tend to lead to bad things …

> bar = ['width', 'height']
[ 'width', 'height' ]
> bar
[ 'width', 'height' ]  // Nothing up my sleeve
> bar.indexOf['length']
1  // Presto!

In case you haven't guessed what's up here: JavaScript automatically surfaces a value called 'length' in all arrays. So you can get the length of bar by typing bar.length and bar['length' …

I've been quietly implementing a new habit for myself. As part of the Habit Guide from Zen Habits I've decided to start with a ridiculously small habit in order to get myself back into the habit of making good habits. (Play along at home with the "Craig says 'habit"" game …

May your holidays be carefully guarded by the Christmas Kitten.