Month: December 2005

Not a bad day if I do say so myself!

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Da-yum! I wish I had more days like this.

I had to work from home today because the car was being picked up to get a bit of bodywork. Because of office politics, it was easier for me to get the day off, so I was home all day. Surprisingly, I did actual productive work. That has to be a sign that you love your job when you're home and you actually work!

I resolved two bugs that were annoying the hell out of me and that means that my code is almost ready to get released into the wild. Once that happens, I can get some screenshots, polish off the paper and send it off for reviews prior to submission. This makes me happy.

The impressive thing is that between the brilliant coding/debugging (hehehe), I managed to do two loads of laundry, half a week's worth of washing up and I even took out the trash.

In other words, I rock!

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A few tidbits

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I found this icon online and fell in love with it.


I think it's applicable to a few other people as well (hint hint [info]electricland)

Fed up of browsing journals whose styles you find, well, horrendous? try this:

http://www.livejournal.com/users/talisker/?style=mine

Addind that little bit at the end will override the journal style and use yours instead. Because, lets face it, you have much better taste than most people :D

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It's beginning to look a lot like xmas

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Except for the complete and utter lack of snow hereabouts… blergh. Only 18 days until I leave for Canadia, joy! Like Katy says, it can't come soon enough. It'll do me good to see friends and family again. Hopefully the shoulder from doom will be kind to me on this trip though. It's been acting up again and I've been waking up stiff as a board for the last two weeks. Not cool, not cool at all.

I've been reading an interesting book by Jon Grimwood called 9Tail fox. The bio reads:

Sergeant Bobby Zha of the SFPD is desperate to find out who murdered him. But he also needs the answers to some other questions. Like, why is he in another man's body? Why is someone trying to kill him, again… And why is he being haunted by a nine-tailed Celestial fox?From the shell-shattered ruins of Stalingrad in 1942 to the present day politics of San Francisco's Chinatown, 9tail Fox is evocative of place and crystal clear in its depiction of character.

It's not bad. There are bits and pieces that make prevent it from being excellent – one of which is that the author keeps thinking that you know the book and storyline just as well as he does, so he keeps making these hints that you think you should understand, but just don't and they're not explained so that just makes them frustrating. Besides that though, it's been keeping me entertained so that's always a good sign

Things at work are becoming interesting. In the span of 2 days, half a dozen people have contacted me about putting bits of the ontology lookup service I've been working on into their applications. Very gratifying. I'm almost done with the first draft of the paper I'm going to submit and it's being reviewed by my boss today.

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