I'm listening to Pink Floyd's set at Live 8 and I have shivers…
Day: July 6, 2005
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1) I can't leave home without having checked that I have my keys, wallet, antihistamines, cell phone, epipen and that my oven is properly off (even if I haven't actually used it that day). Even if it's to go to the corner store to pick up a loaf of bread. I can check this multiple times before actually leaving the house. I think I have mild OCD but can't really be bothered to do anything about it. My friends call this my macarena dance.
2) Even though I can remember trivial facts from years ago, I have crap short-term memory and am therefore always writing things down on bits of paper. Every few weeks, I go through all my pockets and wallet to purge all a not insignificant biomass.
3) When I'm busy doing something, the world can crumble around me and I won't really notice it.
4) When I'm concentrating on something, I tend to tuck my chin in my shirt up to my nose. I can't really tell you why.
5) I'm addicted to my email and can check it, without exageration, about 150 times a day.
I've been told I haven't been writing enough
The last few days have been rather uneventful, really. Work has been mostly aggravating, to be honest. We're at the point where we're testing the code in real-life scenarios with actual data and it's making gremlins pop out of the woodwork. I spent the whole day today wrestling with Oracle JDBC. We're trying to load data that has very long text blobs to load. We found this out the hard way when JDBC was complaining about strings above 4K. We then changed the back-end tables to handle CLOBS, but then we found that the oracle:thin driver didn't handle CLOBS above 4K, so that was rather useless too. We tried to switch to the oracle:oci driver, but that needs oracle client library binaries. I spent the afternoon trying to get a windows oracle installation to play nice with java ant under cygwin. Basically, I was asking for trouble. In the end, we gave up on my laptop and we got it to run on Phil's laptop (a native linux install) and lo and behold, everything worked. I'm happy that I got it to work, but I could have done without the aggravation.
On a completely different issue, I installed a wiki on my website (http://www.flubu.com) so I have a rapid sandbox for notes and such. It's basically the electronic equivalent of my little yellow post-it notes I always carry with me.
On a final issue, I have too active an imagination and this is going to bite me in the ass shortly. Katy's become obsessed with a TV series called Millenium (I got her the series on DVD). In the last few days, she's gotten through something like 10 hours od it. Some of the themes in the show give me the serious heebyjeebies. Not good.