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Those of you who have seen my source code from my university days, may remember that I have a habit of putting in humurous comments into my source code.

Well, I’m please to say that I never really stopped (just calmed down a bit). I’ve just managed to check in this little beauty:

INDEX  TakeOnKey <Field Listing removed> /*    ^^^^^^^^^  - "Take On Key"???? Wasn't that a song by Aha?  */

For the technically minded, it’s a temp-table definition in Progress 4GL

I think I have just had another breakthrough. It was simple = really, I don’t know why I didn’t think of it before.

I have been trying for ages to build Haiku from within BeOS and install it = on my old pc in a spare partition I setup especially for it when I last = rebuilt that box. I was having problems with getting the system to use the = correct version of GCC though. The answer is really simple.cd = /BeOS/develop/tools
rm gnupro
ln -s ‘pwd’/gnupro_old gnuproI will let you know how I get on!

I think I have just typed the rudest command line ever.

It was a simple affair, merely:man jamI think the response wasn’t much better eitherNo manual entry from jam

I’m currently watching the last episode of Doctor Who in the current series.

I’ve just discovered that a Vauxhall Corsa is bullet proof!

Amazing!

In a bid to earn some more cash, I took a look through Rent-A-Coder.com, just to see what kind of work was being touted for. My general conclusion was: it’s all bollocks.

The majority of the work going is ridiculously complicated, for a very small amount of cash. You can see that most people requiring a programmer are not business analysts, or have not thought their designs though, and so you get a complete mess of a description, ridiculous requirements that can’t be achieved and a small pay packet to boot. There are also many requests for people to “clone” a website (but why? You’re not going to achieve their level of success simply by being exactly the same).

The worst ones though are where you can spot spammers, and things like that. For example, there is a request on there to scan through DNS servers, and get a listing of all the DNS entries held by that name server – I cannot think of any non-spamming (or “cold calling”) use for that technology.

When you look at the website as well, it’s not the most easiest of things to view. For example, wWhen you click on a particular category of work, the following webpage doesn’t tell you what category you are in – so if you open multiple categories in different tabs – good luck trying to find out which section is which!

So, I came away thinking: “Well, nothing of any use there then”.

If anyone has ever wonder what Richard, Holygoat, Newman would look like if he came from Korea, then wonder no more.

He’d look like this: Image (from Aving.net)

I love it, this is truely amazing! I now really really want to own a tesla coil.

Make sure you have your sound turned on: Video

This video tells you how it works. Although, it doesn’t really take 12 minutes of video to say “We generate a square wave by clipping the audio input sine wave, and use that to turn the resonator on and off”, but it’s interesting none the less.

I encountered an annoying problem at work a little while ago with Thunderbird. Whilst dragging and dropping some emails between directories so that I’m a little better organised, the emails were dragged successfully but then disappeared completely.

It happened again this morning with a really important email. Fortunately, I was able to get the original sender to resend it without making me look like a complete planck (A computer programmer that can’t work an email program? How good are they?)

Anyway, I decided to do some digging this evening, and have found this answer in the Mozilla KnowledgeBase (of all places!). Seems like I’m not the only one to have had the problem, and my experiences seem to echo those in the page (never had it in version 1.5 – although apparently it did exist, only experienced it in version 2.0).

Hope that helps somebody.