I'm sure I heard on the radio that there were traffic accidents everywhere tonight. Someone waived the toll, northbound on the Gateway bridge to clear up traffic, which gives anyone local - or with a clue about bureaucracy- how dire the congestion was ( Read more... )

"The essence of being a programmer is, I think, being a dictionary for those around you ( Read more... )

A chorus from the Tannhäuser cycle played on the radio, this morning. The music is instantly recognisable as the tune to those timeless musical moments, "Poor widdle bunny," and "Weturn, my wuv," to anyone that saw "What's Opera, Doc?"Most of the music around here when I was young was Mozart; even popular Wagner was exceedingly rare. Listening to ( Read more... )

wxWidgets doesn't load Windows icon resources by index. Boo.

I'm glad it's a slow, wet day, because my response time is very poor. It's been a half-week of huge meals, one after the other, mostly due to birthdays, mostly due to mine. The Ice Bar has a kilogram steak meal, which is inexplicably eligible for their grill deal on Thursdays. I managed only 850g of it but shrugged off just enough to have a family ( Read more... )

I must post something
My blog is very empty
Make it a haiku.

Mah, mah.

I've not played much Halo 3 since it came out.

Oh, windwalkr and I finished it in co-operative mode on Normal. kithal, themp, jelashke, N and myself played most of it, four players on the same. I've hammered my way through several levels on Legendary. The overall time spent with the game has been pretty minimal though, and playing it on several xboxen forces you ( Read more... )

I have a plan for a new programming language, based on the propensity of code towards poor error and boundary case handling. The language of the now is to be called "Assertion", and it will consist entirely of lambdas and exceptions. It will be only barely procedural in the way that modern software is barely functional. The exceptions will be ( Read more... )

What mental stumbling block trips up my nerve, cold-calling real estate agents?

"I'm calling about an apartment."

"It's on the market for $495,000."

"I think that's a fair bit out of my price range, so it's probably not worth booking an inspection."

"It is on the river."

The identical apartments a block away were $160,000 cheaper. Expensive ( Read more... )

Frustratio. +n. Must record ( Read more... )