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Tuesday, April 05, 2005

Project, Bridge, a New Blog

What a day

We've agreed to work on the rush project in a prototyping mode, which always results in rework, but avoids the slowness of formal design based development. So far it seems to be pretty good. We're doing the C++ here, and the reports / wizards / style sheets in Australia. For the moment the Australians are working off the old database schema, but nothings been broken by database upgrades yet. I worked hard on the project at work. I managed to get it working to the self-test stage and checked in my changes for a build. This means we have something for Rowena when she's next in. Things are looking pretty good for meeting the first internal ship date on Friday. About 5 minutes after I checked everything in, Australia came back with a few changes. Luckily it was just adjusting the availability of some windows, so I was able to get them tested and in before it was time to leave for Bridge. We'd left it a bit late, so it was a quick bite at Burger King.

Bridge

The room was so packed, that the sit-out table was moved into the foyer and the-other-Angela decided to split 4 tables off to play a teams event. We stuck with the pairs, which was lucky, as we led a charmed existence. We over-bid like crazy & kept on managing to make the contracts. I'm not too sure our tactic would have been as successful at IMP scoring. We only came unstuck on a couple of boards. One where Angela bid up to 7C, unfortunately the cards weren't with us on that hand.

The New Blog

I've decided to repatriate my software patent blog to blogspot. Yahoo 360 just doesn't do it for me. Once I made the decision I moved pretty fast and set it up with a basic template for now, then I just copied the postings back from the other place. I'll sort out page counters and so forth. I'd imagine it will be a few days befoe anyone finds it anyway.

2 comments:

0 said...

I was considering Yahoo 360 recently. A friend emailed an invitation, but I declied. I figured, ya know...I just started blogging & I'm no where near needing to jump shit yet. I notice a lot of blogs with google adds & other goodies that seem to me best suited for the big dogs. Gadgets everywhere, blingking things...nah...not for me.

I'll stick around & bang out a few years of blogging here. Then, when I've learned to string together words into coherent thoughts, maybe I'll also need a better home.

I might even have something worth saying too!

0 said...

I was considering Yahoo 360 recently. A friend emailed an invitation, but I declied. I figured, ya know...I just started blogging & I'm no where near needing to jump shit yet. I notice a lot of blogs with google adds & other goodies that seem to me best suited for the big dogs. Gadgets everywhere, blingking things...nah...not for me.

I'll stick around & bang out a few years of blogging here. Then, when I've learned to string together words into coherent thoughts, maybe I'll also need a better home.

I might even have something worth saying too!