This new white& brown look is temporary and basically just a break from the out-of-date green & black theme while things progress towards my new site [blog] going online. The new blog will, in all likelyhood, be online before CFTM. I have aquired (assembled) a serverbox, and will be getting it configured soon to host rm-rstar.com.
Well, for once I am at work late on a Thursday. I used to come in on thursday nights in order to cram as many hours into the week as possible, since my time sheet used to get turned in on Friday morning, and I’d get paid that afternoon. Well, I still get paid on Fridays, but we switched to a payroll company a while ago, and now our week ends on a Tuesday, so cram nights are mondays…. which never happens! So why am I here at 9:30pm? Well, the current project is drawing to a close and I am trying to get bugs and changes dealt with in a timely fashion. It’s odd, in the last hour and a half, I’ve killed more bugs than I did in the entire rest of the day! Tonight’s bugfixing has focused on the ‘Survey Editor’, which is a graphical network editor (a network, as in a tree in which nodes can have multiple parents, including the root node). Yes. So, for those interested, here are [were] some of the ‘bugs’:
now back to work for me.
Let me tell you a story. Once, there was this guy named sema4, who graduated from high school and went to university. One of the prime objectives of attending university was to get a girlfriend, since this was something that had been quite far out of reach while at home in high school, and thus sema4 felt quite unfulfilled. After a short period of time living in campus residence, sema4 had identified THE target of his affection, and was determined to remain persistent. Despite other options (which would of course prove to be better options much later on) sema4 remained focused and by November, he had a girlfriend. We will call her Helga. Now, this relationship was sort of repressive for sema4. He felt a little bit ‘controlled’ by Helga, however, he loved her and that was what mattered, and they did have a lot of fun times together. And while the relationship had some downs, by the end of the year, sema4 and Helga were still together. However, there was a little strange analogy that sema4 used to describe his sadness with the relationship:
“She’s like this small glass sculpture sitting on a shelf. And while she’s up there on the shelf, she looks beautiful. But when you reach up to touch her, even just a light touch, she flies off the shelf and smashes violently onto the ground into a million pieces.”
Or something like that. Anyways, the general feeling was that he had to tread lightly or risk everything going to hell. So, summer came, and sema4 returned home for a while, and found that once he was away from Helga for a while he felt so much better, and free’er (sp?), and hey, there was this girl he worked with who he thought was pretty damn cool (we’ll call her Bridget). Very quickly sema4 realized that it was time to end the current relationship, because… it had run its course. So on an mid summer visit to see Helga, he broke the news that he no longer loved her and that they should break up. This was not taken well by her, and it was taken even worse when she found out that sema4 did not want to have extra-relationship sex with her! So, our now-single sema4 returns home, feeling relieved that he was able to take care of the situation, and by the end of summer is going out with Bridget. In the last 2 weeks he goes on a camping trip with Bridget and her folks, and holy crap, they happen to end up camping in the same campsite as Helga and her parents!!!! Helga sees sema4 and Bridget holding hands and gets the idea that she was dumped for another woman. Crying ensues, but fortunately that is Helga’s last night at the campsite. Yeah. So, school starts up again, and while sema4 is no longer attending university, he spends time on campus visiting his friends. And Helga gets wind of this and comes to “visit” him at his friend’s dorm room, which really means she’s come to vent her anger which has been stewing since the campsite incident. Helga slaps sema4 in the face and goes on some rant, while sema4 is thinking to himself “wow, am i glad i am not with this crazy person anymore!”. Rumor has it that Helga went on a dumping spree to ‘get back’ at sema4, by dating guys and having sex with them solely so she could dump them and crush their egos. sema4 and Bridget soon went their separate ways but eventualy found nice people to get married to.
Today is my birthday…. Giuliani for president! I really would like to say something nasty about the current US (and other western) government. But I really am not in the mood to make sure it’s typographically and politically correct.
So I heard about Palladium yesterday. No, not the company that produces some great RPGs! Palladium is the next ploy to push western nations closer to being dictatorships. Yes, I’m talking about the horrific idea that someone else could control what you do in the “privacy” of your own computer. Anyway, after i thought about it for a while, i realised that Microsoft has really just lit the fire under its own boiling pot. Yes, maybe the general public will finally realize that they’re being screwed, and will stop buying stuff like copy-restricted DVDs, or Office software that denies you access to your own files. While i certainly don’t think that Linux will necessarily be the solution, it will look pretty darn good to a lot of people, no matter how un-ready it still is for the desktop when the time comes.