Archives week 22 of 2004

May 31, 2004 - June 6, 2004

Nice little experiment last night (Ginger stir-fry over anise and mint pasta)


Wound up buying more ginger than I intended to yesterday, so decided to use the entire old root for a stir-fry (mushrooms, tomotos green and red bell peppers) and do up some "cool" pasta using fresh mint and anise (after cooking, drain, pour in cold water, drain, repeat). Tossed 1/3 of a raw strong purple ...

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Nice little experiment last night (Ginger stir-fry over anise and mint pasta)


Wound up buying more ginger than I intended to yesterday, so decided to use the entire old root for a stir-fry (mushrooms, tomotos green and red bell peppers) and do up some "cool" pasta using fresh mint and anise (after cooking, drain, pour in cold water, drain, repeat). Tossed 1/3 of a raw strong purple ...

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Gack this is slow (So many methods, so little progress)


Still working on the "randomised" ping mechanism. Spent close to an hour with the darn thing hanging because of a logic error where something that was originally synchronous was converted to being asynch, but I forgot to alter the client code in one place, so it would just sit about re-scheduling itself every 30 seconds ...

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Gack this is slow (So many methods, so little progress)


Still working on the "randomised" ping mechanism. Spent close to an hour with the darn thing hanging because of a logic error where something that was originally synchronous was converted to being asynch, but I forgot to alter the client code in one place, so it would just sit about re-scheduling itself every 30 seconds ...

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What is the headache trying to say? (It's a warning signal, but...)


Was reading an article on Wired News this afternoon about a new bill in the states intended to allow consumers and third-party technicians to access (all of) the diagnostic codes for their cars. Headaches are much like the check-engine lights described in the article. They tell you that something is wrong, but there's not much ...

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What is the headache trying to say? (It's a warning signal, but...)


Was reading an article on Wired News this afternoon about a new bill in the states intended to allow consumers and third-party technicians to access (all of) the diagnostic codes for their cars. Headaches are much like the check-engine lights described in the article. They tell you that something is wrong, but there's not much ...

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Standard test fixture specifying database records? (Frustrating writing these things ad hoc all the time)


Trying to be a good little Agile/Extreme programmer, I've been writing a test suite as I work on the ping scanner. The "Virtual Plant" stuff is nice for modelling the whole network-level plant, that is, it makes the SNMP queries all seem to find modems and that kind of useful thing, but it doesn't help ...

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