dumbbells

i slept reasonably well, and got to base in time for inspection. they didn't notice that i hadn't polished my boots (no key to my office). took a long breakfast, spent the morning working.

jenovachen (heard about him in wired) has two cool games, worth a look.

the news of the day:

dumbbell one: we had plenty of free time (we cleaned our office and worked together on a few things), so i got plenty of exercise with the 12kg dumbbell that we have, and our pull-up bar. i'm SERIOUSLY feeling it.

dumbbell two: the kid. problem a did not occur as mysteriously as we thought. the kid forgot that - *ahem* - THAT VERY SAME DAY he'd modified the file, and managed to introduce an error into the compiled code that doesn't feature in the source. he wasn't too happy when i elaborated on my thoughts at the time that i found out.

by trying to use windows scripting to write all my outlook appointments for the day into a text file, i managed to leak about 300MB of memory, and lock all sorts of processes. and it took me long enough to figure out the basics - the msdn documentation is pathetic.

it took a while, and much misunderstanding, but i've managed to approximate a translation of "you inbred SOB" to the hebrew for "you inbred dog":

יע כלב בן גילוי עריות
ya kelev ben gilui arayot

work tonight: spot managed to save himself. around november / december last year (i guess), he was messing with my lighter (SB's break-up gift), and lost a part that rendered it useless. they're selling those lighters in israel now, and when i got into my office he gave me the part that disappeared - until now i hadn't really forgiven him, but the fact that he remembered does make it up... spot, i hope you've learned from that experience.

i didn't get as much work done as i would have liked - lots of headache-y problems. and a really cute girl came in for an interview. i wasted quite a bit of time with spot, figuring out not-very-important things in linux, and we all decided that next week i'm going to be able to move into the development office (yay!), and get a new pc (with a large screen and everything).

i wish i could explain the sheer idiocy that i had to deal with tonight, regarding the guy who sent that email i posted a while ago. his team BUILT the damn servers, and they can't keep even the remotest amount of consistency. not only that, but they make mistakes that even a beginner would know to avoid. that's just sad. spot didn't believe me until he saw the code himself.

so, i have to wait for another release. i'll be coming in tomorrow in anticipation. now we're off to shoot some pool, apparently.