Thoroughly aggregating
In theory, this blog should be part of Janes' Blogosphere now, and new posts should show to an aggregator bot that just happens to be passing. Woohoo!
Alison Hawke
And So It Begins
Today was the first snowfall. It's come early in revenge for last year's easy winter. Normally there are piles of frozen grey stuff at the edge of the road, every car goes grey from salt, you can't see the road markings under the ice,
Snapshot - November 2002
Currently:
Reading The Hundred Years War by Desmond Seward
Listening to Let Go by Avril Lavigne
Watching Babylon 5 season one DVDs
Programming test code for the CalendarPanel on Chronicle
Looking for a hassle-free flute pre-amp that works
(NOT Barcus Berry, theirs was nothing but trouble and is
Geek cred
In Borders Cafe writing Java code, how geeky is that? Worse yet, composing a blog entry about it. It feels good to be writing code, trying to track which bit does what, working without the API docs (help, I've gone blind!), and using an IDE solo for the
Signature
Dick Davies, of Radio Worldwide, has a great haiku as his email signature.
Chaos reigns within.
Reflect, repent, and reboot.
Order shall return.
Journey to Rantville
Windows Media Player 7.0 puts in a new ASPI layer without telling you. I wouldn't have noticed except a program stopped working, the one I use to rip the MP3s from CDs we actually own. Grr. My CD. My laptop. Don't go breaking things without
Define Christian
Russ Mayes posted recently about blogs4God being less overtly Christian than he would like. Jordon Cooper responded, as did Bene Diction. I like blogs4God, it's run by decent human beings that answer email you send them, they get through far more blogs than I have time to find,
History
Just started reading about the Hundred Years War, which was actually 116 years long, between England and France. Need to research some technical details about crossbows and armour, and get a map of 14th century France. Where is Crecy? Guyenne? Agenais? Edward III pawned the crown of England to go
Rememberance
Today is Veteran's Day in the US, yesterday was probably Memorial Sunday in the UK. World War II still has its effects in UK culture. You tend to eat two or more vegetables with every main meal, because your parents grew up with food rationing. You study the
Extreme Programming in St Louis
Went to the XPStL meeting last night, to hear Brian Button talk about refactoring, a key part of Extreme Programming, also known as XP. Extreme Programming has absolutely nothing to do with Extreme Ironing. Really interesting talk/code walk through/lesson/discussion, and the cookies were pretty good too.
Normally,