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Late/Early
It rained tonight, quite hard. It rained much harder a
while back, and there was a small leak. Today, it seemed as
though the entire wall was leaking, seemingly coming throgh
the window, streaming down the walls, and dripping all
over. It actually wasn't as bad as that sounds, but I'm
sure it will get worse if I don't say something. I'll have
to talk to the management tomorrow. Sigh.
Noonish
I had trouble getting up again this morning. I took a long
nap after work yesterday, but then I stayed up very late
mucking on IRC and doing other stuff. I decided to
telecommute and have ended up having a very unproductive
morning. I'm sure I'd be much more productive if I could
just find some extra stimuli in my life. At least in High
School I was forced to interact with people every day. At
college, people aren't crammed so closely together, so they
don't interact as much, or at least I don't.
Anyway, spent too much of my time reading Sinfest, which is really
funny if you don't mind poking fun at God, swearing, and
references to the sexual mentalities surrounding us these
days.
I'm going to head out to actually work at work soon. The
boss and I are a little worried that our developers are
going to start using Microsoft J++ for communicating with
the eventually-will-be-installed Oracle database. He gave
me a copy of J++ to try out, in order for me to see if it's
possible to actually produce something resembling pure Java
with it. Unfortunately, my NT box is fairly underpowered,
at least for NT4SP5 (P133 w/ 64MB RAM). I'm feeling
masochistic, so I'm going to give Win2k a shot. My
P166/128MB Linux box is extremely nice and snappy in
comparison, though I really need to find a good video card
for it (800x600 is becoming tiresome).
Late Afternoon
I'm displeased with my building's management right now. As
I was walking out, I saw that we had a notice slid under the
door stating that we owe $50 plus $25 penalty. Dunno what
it's for, but I'll have to bring up my leaky wall when we
talk to them about it.. Unfortunately, they keep relatively
inaccessible hours like 9:00-4:30 or something, so I'll have
to come to work late or leave work early some day. Blah.
I think I finally found something to hack on -- porting
Secure Locate to Solaris. It's a small codebase, so it
shouldn't take too long, though I'll have to read a bunch of
man pages to refresh my memory about all of those
functions. I think I'll be annotating a lot of source,
too..
I'm annoyed with [X]Emacs, and *vi*, so I was looking around
for decent editors. gIDE
seems to be coming along nicely, and the syntax highlighting
actually works (though it seems slow...). Finally, a text
editor where I don't have to have a QWERTY keyboard (*vi*)
or learn horrendous keystrokes ([X]Emacs). Not perfect, but
it's something I can live with.
Oops.. I'd better quit before I start an editor war..
Evening
Somewhat disappointed that there was no mention of the
multi-State suit
against Big Music on the national news tonight. I guess
it's not surprising, but it sure seems to prove the biases
we believe to be out there these days. In a similar vein,
it's amazing what is happening in China.
I mean, the son of the President of the country is running a
Linux company over there. It's basically impossible for
interesting things to not happen because of this.
I've said too much today.. I'll be quiet now.