Monthly Archives: June 2003

Books ‘N’ Work

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I did fin­ish Harry Pot­ter and the Pris­oner of Azkaban last night. It was every bit as good as I remembered it. I wanted to move straight on to Harry Pot­ter and the Gob­let of Fire but it seems Jamie took it into school recently and left it there. She for­got to bring it back (as I asked) when she came home from school this after­noon. :-(
Back in work today and it was rain­ing so hard this morn­ing I decided to forgo cyc­ling. I’ll try to get back to it tomor­row. Busy as usual. That’s about it, it wasn’t quite as hot in the office today but it was more humid to compensate!

Sunday

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As usual Jamie and I went swim­ming this morn­ing with Steve and Megan. Jamie did really well today swim­ming eight ‘widths’ of the pool. (Actu­ally about 4/5ths of the width — a nar­row strip is roped off for ser­i­ous swim­mers.) I was very proud of her. She doesn’t nor­mally exert her­self at all. So todays effort was very very good. Well done Jamie!
When we got back from swim­ming, we all sat out in the sun­shine for a while. I go too hot and went in to read. I fin­ished Harry Pot­ter and the Cham­ber of Secrets last night and am most of the way through Harry Pot­ter and the Pris­oner of Azkaban. I’ll prob­ably fin­ish it tonight.

Epsilon 12 Beta

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Aaaw! I was going to go to bed early tongiht, but Mark poin­ted out that Lugaru have announced that there is a beta Ver­sion of Epsi­lon 12 Avail­able!. Epsi­lon is the best pro­gram­mers editor I have ever used, by a long, long way. I know that one’s choice of editor is almost a reli­gious pref­er­ence for some, but con­sider this; I have for the last 12 years con­sist­ently proven that I can per­form day-to-day file edit­ing tasks faster and more reli­ably than any of my non-epsilon using col­leagues in job after job. I can per­form many com­plex or unusual file edit­ing tasks with epsi­lon which col­leagues just can­not hope to even attempt (even if, in some cases, their edit­ors are cap­able). I would walk away from a job which did not allow me to use epsi­lon! (Can’t you just smell the reli­gious fer­vour? Hear the pul­pit pound­ing?)
So now I’ve got to play with some of the juicy new fea­tures in this new version!

Order Of The Phoenix — finished

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Wow! Tonight I fin­ished Harry Pot­ter and the Order of the Phoenix by JK Rowl­ing. Not bad going since Sunday night!
I must say I really enjoyed it. I found it much more enter­tain­ing and fast paced than Gob­let of Fire. The story line is good, without too many twists and turns in the plot. It is not per­fect by any meas­ure and some of the book is not up to the stand­ard of the earlier books. Read on for more detail, but only if you don’t mind learn­ing about the plot. You have been warned! Plot spoil­ers ahead. Edit: Oops! I acci­dent­ally mis-spelled phoenix as pheonix in the title this post. Con­tinue read­ing →