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> As I said several times I want the specs before you do the
> code. If this is a problem please discuss it with me.
> So again to be very clear I want this as the HIGHEST priority
> and if takes more that 10 mins to finish please advise.

I cannot give you a working, sane spec for 4 different servlets in 10 minutes. I can, but it will be crap and will probably completely morph while I'm coding it. As soon as I get this done, you'll be the first to know, but you asking me for it every 5 minutes really doesn't help, nor does you telling me to work on something while thinking it's something else. I'm not psychic.

I will work on it, with utmost expediency and to the best of my capacity, and as soon as it's done it'll be in your inbox.

Sadly, common sense intervened and I only sent the first two sentences of the reply.

Rc says: 
   you know how when we were talking about 
   my fear problems, you said you almost offered
   to dispel them for me?
Tia says: 
   ....yes... 
Rc says: 
   well, I almost offered to try and 
   break that record with you

http://www.flubu.com/projects.html

Go have a look :D

I finally got new batteries for the digital cam I'd borrowed from my sister, so I was able to download the pictures on the memory card, and take a few new ones as well. Click on a thumbnail to see a larger pic (and yes moonlightjoy, they open another window :P)

	I was talking to emjayne yesterday about my chronic lack of bookshelf space. Now consider that I have two other bookshelves that are in a similar state
	This is a picture of my parents' dog, waiting for my dad to come back from wherever he went when that picture was taken.
	This is what the old breakfast nook in my kitchen looks like now. I ripped out the old, ugly benches that were nailed to the walls. eniran came over last night to give me a hand with the plaster, though I suspect she was there only for the dinner I told her I'd cook :P

I'm currently working on a webpage for my bookbinding projects. It should be up sometime today.

Edit: giving this a try: talisker. Yay, I'm a blue :P

raspberrysalmon is currently enjoying herself at a concert by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, led by guest conductor Bobby McFerrin. We'd made plans for me to call her on her cell phone to listen in to part of the concert while I was at the office.

So I buy a calling card, but I couldn't connect to her mobile phone with it. I can get her house line, but I not her cell. I tried calling her directly with my cell phone, but the nice people of Telus do not enable overseas direct dialing by default (and you need a credit check to get it – sometimes even a 1000$ safety deposit, if their credit department thinks you're a credit risk). Finally, I asked my boss if I could call her on the office phone, to inform her that the plans had fallen through, and I was finally able to connect to… something. I got an automated phone message that spewed a bunch of stuff in rapid-fire german I didn't understand.

I don't know if that was her voicemail or something, but I got a call from her shortly after. The sound was completely horrendous though, but it was a quirky moment nonetheless; to be listening to a live concert 6000km away :)

I'm giggling at the office, and my coworkers are giving me strange looks :)

Edit: I just received another phone call from her, so I could listen to parts of Ravel's Bolero. Unfortunately, travelling through 2 cell phones didn't do it justice, as it sounded like it was being played on a badly tuned harmonica :D

Edit #2: I changed the picture that was being displayed by one Tia sent me this morning, showing where she was. The original picture is still here

I hate wasting my time like this…

I've been writing a lot of code on my laptop, which works perfectly. I must now merge this code on our dev server. Of course, the dev environment doesn't match the environment in which I've been slamming away. I know the environment on my laptop is sane, stable and well configured. I can't say the same for the dev env.

I've just spent the last 2 days trying to find out why the code I know works on my laptop explodes quite dramatically on the dev machine. So what do I do? I install the dev env on my laptop (basically, the Java Web Services development platform), which runs on Tomcat 5. Through hours of tedious testing, I fix bug after bug and setup everything properly.

I've just found out why the last thing wasn't working. The TLD parser of the input taglib was throwing a fit on initialization. In a nutshell, input1.0 – which works fine in Tomcat 4 – doesn't parse under Tomcat 5. Input-1.1 works hunky-dory.

Too bad it only took me the better part of a day to figure that one out.

Sheeeeeet.