Monthly Archives: May 2008

Kayak Construction, gluing the cockpit reinforcement

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

After a couple of days of it being too cold to glue, yesterday I glued the 4 pieces of cockpit reinforcement that I cut on Tuesday. The instructions said to mix in some wood flour into the epoxy to make … Continue reading →

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D’oh!

Posted on May 31, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

One of the trials and tribulations and also one of the fun challenges of my job is that I get vague bug reports on something the QA person sees sometimes and not others. Our QA people don’t do a very … Continue reading →

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Java Exceptions

Posted on May 29, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

I swear, the next person I discovered declaring a method as “throws Exception” is going to get a kick in the balls. Serously, what sort of fucked up code are you writing that you can’t even tell what type of … Continue reading →

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Hey bozos!

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

Our computers are put together for one thing, and one thing only – to run a theatre complex. And we give the users restricted logins that log them into a IceWM environment where they can’t do anything that they’re not … Continue reading →

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Joining finished, on to cockpit reinforcement

Posted on May 28, 2008 by Paul Tomblin

On Monday I turned over the panels to do the last side. Once again, I had to do a lot of scraping with a cabinet scraper to deal with epoxy that had seeped under the panel, and cutting with the … Continue reading →

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