Miniblog articles for July 2004

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Friday 2nd, 15:21 »
Somebody's gone a bit cast crazy here: (wxObjectEventFunction) (wxEventFunction) (wxCommandEventFunction) MyFrame::OnQuit
Friday 2nd, 15:31 »
It is not possible to think about programming in a hot office with two people (one quiet, one not) on the phone, and what I'm guessing is a fecking industrial vacuum cleaner next door.
Monday 5th, 08:29 »
I'm investigating PL/pgSQL (the PostgreSQL procedural language). The documentation kindly points out the situations where it's necessary to use 10 consecutive single quotes. Nice.
Monday 5th, 14:22 »
The office door wedge gnomes are back. They've stolen yet another of our rubber door wedges, and this time replaced it with a crappy wooden one that doesn't stick. Sneaky bastards.
Tuesday 6th, 20:26 »
Just watched a Japanese film called Wild Zero. At first I thought it was a gritty punk rock flick. But then these fucking zombies show up, and there's a pretty girl who's… unusual… and then it really starts getting weird.
Friday 9th, 11:53 »
Does your WSDL file tell you all this? I didn't think so.
Sunday 11th, 15:37 »
How to assemble an IKEA computer desk (via Overcaffeinated). Heh heh.
Monday 12th, 10:18 »
Vim macros aren't a very fast way to edit large database tables.
Wednesday 14th, 17:57 »
“Please, God, just put my program together and run it as fast as You can and I will never eat a jelly doughnut again!” —Do Programmers Need Seat Belts?, by Richard P. Gabriel
Saturday 17th, 16:52 »
“Besides encouraging pornographic programming, giving a special interpretation to the address 0 has caused difficulties in all subsequent implementations.” —John McCarthy, History of Lisp (the PS version is better)
Wednesday 21st, 11:46 »
“'Tis my DDT,” I muttered, “feeping on my console's bell:
Once it feeped, and now is still.”
—The Great Quux, The HACTRN, from Random Poetry and Other Losses
Wednesday 28th, 13:58 »
“yylex: token 271,” muttered psql, doubt edging the suspicion in his voice. But when he saw that I was not deceiving him, he cried “INSERT 0 4,” and from that moment we were committed.
Wednesday 28th, 15:28 »
Lyrics to the (live) Sailor Moon song. I thought aibiimu was ‘love-beam’ (ai means love) but apparently it's ‘eyebeam’. Not cheesy enough!
Thursday 29th, 11:44 »
You would think our printer was designed to eat data, whir its motors, and sit there looking smug. It's only an aberation when it spits out bits of paper with markings on.
Thursday 29th, 15:27 »
Wow, people are actually using my little Text::VimColor Perl module: AxKit plugin by Michael A. Nachbaur; Blosxom plugin by Byron Ellacott; Python version by Oliver Graf. Cool :-)
Thursday 29th, 23:37 »
“In the land with horses born with eagle wings, and honey bees have lost their stings, there's singing forever... oooh, yeah.” —Queen, My Fairy King. Ah, They don't write them like that anymore.

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Tuesday Apr 24th 2007, 16:54 »
Just took the annual web design survey that AListApart do. I don't realy consider myself to be a web designer, but I have been doing a lot of HTML and CSS lately.
Monday Apr 23rd 2007, 18:23 »
Strange, there appears to be a bare-knuckle boxing match going on in the field outside my flat. Wish they wouldn't make so much noise about it.
Thursday Mar 1st 2007, 18:47 »
“In its written form, Hebrew has no vowels, making it the ideal language for texting.”
—Said in jest on some Radio 4 programme just now.

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