Work
Just call me bug-boy again. Caught a good specimen of a
nasty bug I've trying to track for weeks, and if I can't fix
the cause I think I can treat the symptoms.
Also have Support going after some nasty bugs that have
become more public recently. Again these are hard ones --
the source is unknown, but the symptoms might be treatable
as well.
I'm afraid that John (our CEO) is regressing back to his
previous corporate lifestyle, and has lost some of the
laid-backness we had instilled him with. We might have to
try aversion therapy on him or something.
Diplomacy
Fun to play, fun to watch.
Hackey-sack
What a violent game. I sustained another hackey injury
today. I don't like playing hackey in shoes, but it can
hurt when you're trying to steal the hack off someone who
is.
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PowerTweak: Finance::Quote
Managed to get the all-modular, all-pluggable Finance::Quote
written over the weekend. It's fully backwards compatible
with version 0.18, is a lot nicer to look at, provides
failover support, and makes it much much easier for people
to write pluggable modules that will work under the
framework. I'm happy.
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Time
I love spending time doing all sorts of things, but I never
seem to be able to get enough of it. Friends, food, coding,
a life, family, geeky things, sleep -- I want time for them
all.
Back when I was a student I used to run on a 25 hour day.
This was very good, because I'd always have that extra hour
to do things in. I can't do this anymore, because I need to
come in at a semi-reasonable time for work.
Am going to try and crystalise a number of ideas in my head
into code, despite it being past my bedtime of 10:30. I'm
really going to have to find a way to do more open-sourcey
things at work. I'm a sucker for people sending me patches.
Addendum
Stayed up until sometime in the morning hacking at
Finance::Quote. I've got a working framework for proper
failover, loadable module support, and more configurable
objects. Plus I think I can keep everything compatible with
the old calling syntax with just a little work. This makes
me all very happy.
The changes aren't in the CVS tree yet, because they're not
finished and break just about everything. I want to clean
them up and gain comments from the other developers before I
put them back in the main branch. In the meantime I might
put them on an experimental branch.
If I were a few years younger I'd probably pull an
all-nighter to convert everything over to the new harness,
but at the ripe old age of 23 I'm finding I need my sleep.
In any case I'm still a very happy coder.
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Beer
I'd like to drink a toast to whoever invented beer. It's
very good stuff.
Music
Music's good. Especially with beer.
Weekends
Weekends are great, especially with beer and music.
Music again
Am considering stealing Dab's sub-woofer so my music sounds
better when I drink my beer.
Coding
Together with Ian, we are drunkards@atcafe.com.au. I've
learnt not to code when I'm drunk, because I think I'm a
legend and instead I write really obscure code with no
comments. This is bad. I should play Homeworld instead.
Homeworld
I suck at Homeworld. I'll probably suck at it more when I'm
drunk, but that's okay.
Gwen
Gwen washed the dishes and gave me more games to play. She
rocks.
Ireland
Ireland has good beer and good music. I love Ireland, and
have ancestors who came from there. If people invaded
countries because they had good beer instead of oil, then
Ireland would be screwed.
Food
I'm going to have to cycle more. Food is one of those
wonderful necessities which I really love. Back when I
cycled 30+km/day I could eat at much as I want. I really
liked that. Maybe I should give up work and cycle lots.
Great Ocean Road sounds good, the Roadhouse at Laver's Hill
has such nice people, and such good food, and food tastes so
much better when you've been cycling up some huge mountain
all day. Maybe I should ask Schoolsnet if I can get my seat
replaced with a exercise bike, so I can burn more calories
while coding. In fact, that sounds like an excellent idea.
Mmmmm...... Calories. Yum.
Hackey-Sack
Game of the gods.
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Rock-climbing
Went rockclimbing with a bunch of people, including
Ross. I managed
to
make the finger-breaking climb that Ian did last week, and
Ross showed excellent potential starting his climbs at a 12.
Diplomacy
The two Diplomacy games are going well, with the first one
clipping along nicely and the second one starting to roll
into action.
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