Everything I used to bore people on newsgroups and mailing lists with, now in one inconvenient place.
We’ve had daylight savings time for how many years now? All of my life, I’m sure. So why the hell did I think that I could march my date-time classes from one day to the next just by adding 24 hours (or rather 24*60*60*1000 milliseconds)? Damn, that was a stupid bug. And I’d done it in about 15 different places in the code as well. It’s going to be hard to test it completely until April when the time goes back.
I hope it works.
Generally, when my computers have failed in the past, it’s either been 3 or 4 days after a major configuration change (such as adding a hard drive) or it’s been while I was away for the weekend. It’s now 4 days since I added the new hard drive, and I’m going away for the weekend. With that combination, I figure with my luck it will probably explode and burn the house down.
Final Concorde Flight Lands at Heathrow (washingtonpost.com)
The most beautiful airliner ever built has passed into history. We will not see its like ever again. Sigh. With it goes the last vestige of the era where people though we could do anything, from fly to the moon to solve world hunger.
…murder somebody in cold blood if they’re popping their gum in the cubicle next to me? Is it a violation of some employee diversity rule, or a noise ordnance, or what?
Somehow, against all the odds, I managed to avoid killing my father last night. You see, he was discussing a friend of Liane’s who was expelled from school for dealing drugs, and he said, and I quote “The parents must have known. There is no way a kid could be doing that without the parents knowing.” And somehow, somewhere, I found the strength to not leap up, wrap my hands around his throat, and squeeze until he was dead while yelling “Like the way you knew that my brother was dealing drugs, using drugs, physically and mentally torturing me, and sexually abusing me for all those years while you didn’t do a fucking thing to protect me? You mean like that?”
So I think I deserve some congratulations.