Monthly Archives: April 2002

End of the day

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Another day nearly done.
I spent most of the work day fire fight­ing, instead of planned work.
A new release of the code. Hal­ted for a last minute bug.
Bug fix­ing inter­rup­ted for a meet­ing (a pro­duct­ive one for a change) and
then back to the bug. Found it, fixed it. Fin­ished the release.
None of which was dir­ectly related to the doc­u­ment I was sup­posed to finish!

I’m gonna take a look at Linux from scratch before I retire for night. I think Pingu
(one of my serv­ers) is a likely can­did­ate for linux from scratch.

Later days,
Mike

Documentation

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I’ve been work­ing on doc­u­ment­a­tion pretty much all day today. God it’s bor­ing! It’s a high level design doc­u­ment for a new fea­ture on the main pro­ject on which I work.

I’m even work­ing from home tomor­row (Tues­day) so that I can get on with it without being dis­turbed. I’m sure there will be at least three phone calls from the office.

But I will attempt to at least get the doc­u­ment fin­ished in draft form.
I’ve got­ten lots of hand writ­ten notes down on the require­ments docs and some sketchy sec­tions in the doc.

Ah well! It’s one of the things I have to put up with in order to get paid to mess about with these damn com­puters all day long ;-)

Later,
Mike

Kids!

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My seven year old daugh­ter wrote the fol­low­ing note to her mother this morn­ing:
Mum,
I will never for­give you! And I
don’t like you any more.
Jamie
P.S. If you are look­ing out
for my best interests
how come I don’t like it!

This as a res­ult of a mis­un­der­stand­ing the pre­vi­ous even­ing.
At least it didn’t fea­ture the ‘H’ word :-) So I sup­pose there’s some hope.
After school today everything was back to normal.

I’m usu­ally the one who cops for her anger, but today was Mum’s turn.
Luck­ily we were both able to laugh it off.

Kids — who’d have ‘em?

Mike