Turtle is getting big and very active. I saw my first kick tonight - though I missed the flurry of kicks that followed it. I was so take by the first one, I ended up looking at Niecey with joy....
None the less, Im sure it will be the first of many.... :)
Thursday, April 24, 2008
Its amazing what a nights sleep can do
Ive had this problem with my code for about a week and a bit. To spare you the details, I was having real problems displaying search results for a query. Ive had numerous attempts, always never quite hitting the mark - always a bug in there hiding from me.
Well last night, I had a dream about the project I was working on. I dreamed that I got the search results to work.
I came in this morning and made the changes to the code I dreamed and kapow! IT WORKED!!!!
Well last night, I had a dream about the project I was working on. I dreamed that I got the search results to work.
I came in this morning and made the changes to the code I dreamed and kapow! IT WORKED!!!!
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
Fossil Evidence
The evolution community are psyched up over the latest fossil discovery - a snake that appears to have legs.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7339508.stm
To put this in perspective, Darwin himself said (paraphrased of course) that in time, the fossil record would back up his theory of natural selection. To date (126 years after Darwin's death), the definitive fossil is still being sought - and to some I'm sure, this latest find is their jewel in the crown. Despite the apparent evidence this shows of evolution at work, as always, it would appear to have caused more debate rather than resolution - now they have to decide how to fit it into their tree of related developments. Nothing is ever simple for them.
But wait a minute - Genesis 3:14. I don't want to say the obvious, and indeed - I do not declare this to necessarily be evidence of that verse - thats another whole debate. However, if I was an evolutionist set on convincing others to believe in natural selection, I wouldn't wave this information around too much.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7339508.stm
To put this in perspective, Darwin himself said (paraphrased of course) that in time, the fossil record would back up his theory of natural selection. To date (126 years after Darwin's death), the definitive fossil is still being sought - and to some I'm sure, this latest find is their jewel in the crown. Despite the apparent evidence this shows of evolution at work, as always, it would appear to have caused more debate rather than resolution - now they have to decide how to fit it into their tree of related developments. Nothing is ever simple for them.But wait a minute - Genesis 3:14. I don't want to say the obvious, and indeed - I do not declare this to necessarily be evidence of that verse - thats another whole debate. However, if I was an evolutionist set on convincing others to believe in natural selection, I wouldn't wave this information around too much.
Thursday, April 3, 2008
Phone Support
Ive recently been given an extra task at work, that of providing phone support to our customers. Now I love talking, those of you who know me are aware that it is my all time second favorite hobby. And I play a pretty good game at it too, managing to turn one sentence into a story of epic proportions. So the task of answering calls initially would seem like a well suited job for me.
That is until you take into consideration the accent problems. On more than one occasion, Ive received a call from Spain, or South Africa, or best yet Singapore. The initial talk (eg hello - how can I help etc. etc.) sounds like a conversation between two deaf old folk over a dodgy connection; characterized by multiple "Yes you have called the right place" and "could you say that again". Its almost like some form of whacked out experimental musical composition, lets call it an improv-speech-blues riff.
Ok Im pushing it a bit there. But as it is, all the calls end up getting redirected anyway - unless they are tech problems - Im not the person they a looking for. I wish they just made the phones with some form of auto-redirect button, that would cut down the average length of each call by about 10 minutes.....
That is until you take into consideration the accent problems. On more than one occasion, Ive received a call from Spain, or South Africa, or best yet Singapore. The initial talk (eg hello - how can I help etc. etc.) sounds like a conversation between two deaf old folk over a dodgy connection; characterized by multiple "Yes you have called the right place" and "could you say that again". Its almost like some form of whacked out experimental musical composition, lets call it an improv-speech-blues riff.
Ok Im pushing it a bit there. But as it is, all the calls end up getting redirected anyway - unless they are tech problems - Im not the person they a looking for. I wish they just made the phones with some form of auto-redirect button, that would cut down the average length of each call by about 10 minutes.....
Monday, March 31, 2008
Mudfest
For most of winter Ive been parking our car round the front of our house since the driveway is far more solid there. Its a dirt track elsewhere and over the course of the winter freeze up and melt down it, I had experienced foot deep trenches appearing when I drove through it. You cold pull some good slid skids in it!
Well now that it finally seemed that winter was over, the driveway had been solid for about a week or two. I figured I could park the car at the back door, which is a lot closer for taking grocieries in etc.
It also happens to be right in the middle of the worst bit of the drive. So after last nights storm I went out this morning to a reenactment of Glastonbury Festival.
I almost drowned...
Well now that it finally seemed that winter was over, the driveway had been solid for about a week or two. I figured I could park the car at the back door, which is a lot closer for taking grocieries in etc.
It also happens to be right in the middle of the worst bit of the drive. So after last nights storm I went out this morning to a reenactment of Glastonbury Festival.
I almost drowned...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008
4 days
Thats how long Ive been stuck at this particular problem with .net
It's a cool concept, the way in which .net generates code for the browser. The framework does make the job easier at times. But in situations like this, the framework makes it impossible for me to proceed. If it were simple PHP I would be able to dissect and analyze - and at least isolate the issues that are causing the problem. For the time being, probably due to my lack of experience, Im left flailing my arms and wailing like a baby.
Im almost at my wits end. The problem becomes more elusive while the deadline gets closer.
Did I mention I HATE COMPUTERS.
Grrrrr...
UPDATE
Seems that the OS thought my code files were system files! Gosh you've got to admire Microsoft for the stupidity that windows displays. The system guy here spent almost 2 days trying to reverse the damage - thats a total of 6 days I was down for. Eventually I gave up and started again, but here I am Monday morning ready to kick some coding bottom.....
It's a cool concept, the way in which .net generates code for the browser. The framework does make the job easier at times. But in situations like this, the framework makes it impossible for me to proceed. If it were simple PHP I would be able to dissect and analyze - and at least isolate the issues that are causing the problem. For the time being, probably due to my lack of experience, Im left flailing my arms and wailing like a baby.
Im almost at my wits end. The problem becomes more elusive while the deadline gets closer.
Did I mention I HATE COMPUTERS.
Grrrrr...
UPDATE
Seems that the OS thought my code files were system files! Gosh you've got to admire Microsoft for the stupidity that windows displays. The system guy here spent almost 2 days trying to reverse the damage - thats a total of 6 days I was down for. Eventually I gave up and started again, but here I am Monday morning ready to kick some coding bottom.....
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