I've been off Coca-Cola for ten days now, so the diet begins in earnest. The fruit and other heathier food is in the house, and I'm weaned from the vending machine at work. I hope.
Now a little cooler weather would be nice so I enjoy walking ...
Monday, August 30, 2004
Friday, August 27, 2004
CD Hubris
You gotta love some recording artists.
Emptying an entire disk wallet of ~ 24 CD's, I found one CD with no artist, no title, no nothing, just a white piano etched in an orange background. I think it was a Ben Folds Five CD, and I had no other cases left over.
Let's see, if everyone did that, and if I didn't rip the whole collection onto MP3's, I could be there for days everytime I took 5 CD's out of the changer. (Or more likely, do lots of Sharpie Marker doodling.)
Don't you love people who think they are special?
Emptying an entire disk wallet of ~ 24 CD's, I found one CD with no artist, no title, no nothing, just a white piano etched in an orange background. I think it was a Ben Folds Five CD, and I had no other cases left over.
Let's see, if everyone did that, and if I didn't rip the whole collection onto MP3's, I could be there for days everytime I took 5 CD's out of the changer. (Or more likely, do lots of Sharpie Marker doodling.)
Don't you love people who think they are special?
Thursday, August 26, 2004
Thursday, August 19, 2004
A Quart Low
I've only had one can of Coke today (so far), and only two yesterday. Great for my caloric input (relative to my daily hacking run input of 5+). Not so great for my head, when I drop down the caffiene level I get a lovely throb. But dropping Coke completely is a cornerstone to dropping weight overall.
Whimper...
Whimper...
Wednesday, August 18, 2004
Be careful what you ask for ...
Real Networks set up a petition asking Apple to open up the iPod. The results are not what Real expected.
This is not a shock to me, given Real's heavy handed Internet marketing of the past several years and their general tin ear. My (least) favorite example of Real's handwork is the monthly subscription fee to use their software for ripping your own music as MP3s, whereas iTunes does it for free.
This is not a shock to me, given Real's heavy handed Internet marketing of the past several years and their general tin ear. My (least) favorite example of Real's handwork is the monthly subscription fee to use their software for ripping your own music as MP3s, whereas iTunes does it for free.
Tuesday, August 17, 2004
The Hobbit Hoof
Katherine asked if I was doing litter boxes tonight. I told her I didn't have any choice, aside from annoying her. She said all I needed was a suitable bribe.
I came up with a good one, a higher priority task in the form of a 2 mile walk. This is the first I've been walking since my last posted hobbit hoof. Let's just say my average is down from January, when I got exercise 65% of the days in the month, not to mention March, when I was exercising ~ 75% of the days.
Hopefully, with the SSL done I'll move the focus around to my weight as I threatened to do before.
(Merely that I did three blog posts in a day says I am getting more spare cycles for a change.)
I came up with a good one, a higher priority task in the form of a 2 mile walk. This is the first I've been walking since my last posted hobbit hoof. Let's just say my average is down from January, when I got exercise 65% of the days in the month, not to mention March, when I was exercising ~ 75% of the days.
Hopefully, with the SSL done I'll move the focus around to my weight as I threatened to do before.
(Merely that I did three blog posts in a day says I am getting more spare cycles for a change.)
The Light at the End of the Tunnel
I finally finished SSL, and I figured out why I originally thrashed around it.
Basically, I'm a top-down kind of developer.
If I designed a house, I'd consider what its requirements are (2 people, 6 computers, and 3 cats), and turn that into specifications (four bedrooms, one computer room, six litterboxes), and the specifications into a design (the litterboxes do NOT go in my office).
The SSL project, as presented, was more of a bottom-up problem -- how do you plumb this weird thing into an existing foundation? This took me out of my normal thinking "how should this work?" mode and left me poking at the edges. Once I sat back and decided I needed a proper interface to the new SSL code, that gave me a "top" to drill down from and then plug into the existing environment.
Of course, then I had to work six days a week for three weeks and be left wondering about a weird bug with PFXImportCertStore not working in a GUI program on Windows XP (it does work from a command line program, on other versions of Windows, or if I run it under a program debugger!), but that's programming for you.
Basically, I'm a top-down kind of developer.
If I designed a house, I'd consider what its requirements are (2 people, 6 computers, and 3 cats), and turn that into specifications (four bedrooms, one computer room, six litterboxes), and the specifications into a design (the litterboxes do NOT go in my office).
The SSL project, as presented, was more of a bottom-up problem -- how do you plumb this weird thing into an existing foundation? This took me out of my normal thinking "how should this work?" mode and left me poking at the edges. Once I sat back and decided I needed a proper interface to the new SSL code, that gave me a "top" to drill down from and then plug into the existing environment.
Of course, then I had to work six days a week for three weeks and be left wondering about a weird bug with PFXImportCertStore not working in a GUI program on Windows XP (it does work from a command line program, on other versions of Windows, or if I run it under a program debugger!), but that's programming for you.
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