전국 찜통…포항 37.7도

One of the persons I dislike most [and I sure know how to hold a grudge or two] lives in P’ohang. 37.7°C. Excellentny… I hope this conniving liar’s aircon gets stuffed, and he sweats bullets for all the lies and bullshit he said that day on the phone. It’s been three years, but the memory is still fresh. Stew in hell, Mister.

• • Item 1: Alarm goes off. Groggy. “Hmm, what time is it?” Look to the upper-right of the screen. 7:30 am. Wake up a little more. Realize I’m in bed. Realize there was no screen. Realize I’m sitting at the computer, working, even in my freakin’ dreams.
• • Item 2: Composing a many-point reply email. I finished the message except for one point I needed to think about some more, so I just commented it out and compiled the email.

Except, of course, you don’t “compile” email. They just get sent. Right away. So my recipient received a reply with one response point being represented by a mere sentence fragment.

Bonus: it was proceeded by a //.
Perhaps Time Away from the Computer Would be a Good Thing

If you were a frequent user of auto-completion in your favourite IDE, you’d've sent an email full of seemingly meaningless tabs and incomplete words…

De˽	Fra˽	,

I'm sor˽	 for the del˽	in answ˽	ing your mail,
but here goes:

;-)

What might you be doing at Google? Will you be working on ecommerce?
The agenda is “Whatever I want”, which is really attractive. […] I don’t know who I am reporting to. I think I need to pick my boss as well as what I want to do. How can you say no to this?
In Louis Monier On Why He’s Going To Google

Drool… The “pick your boss” part is probably the sweetest. I could’ve killed for such an option, back when the Cloggies paid me an unreasonable amount of cash to run their Korean branch. I would’ve lined up 5 guys, and played a nice game of murder-and-musical-chairs … Geeks *have* a duty to maintain the BOFH tradition of murder and pain to the uncouth.

I am playing with SQLite3, which is now the default db engine in RB 2005, thanks to the good work of SQLabs. Of course, sqlite hasn’t been retrofitted to RB 5.5, so I am trying to see what it would take to make a poor man’s sqlite solution for RB 5.5. The problem is integrating C structures into RB, which is not always easy. I am obliged to cheat a little, but I managed to do a SELECT command on an existing sqlite database and display the results correctly. So far so good…