During the day I have given a little thought from time to time about what to write here. I’ll get to those thoughts tomorrow and the days that follow. But these have all been pre-empted by something very different. I have just had a rare and accidental pleasure: Hennie Aucamp just read one of his [...]
I’ve been working for a large part of the weekend and almost the whole of today on the implementation of an algorithm. Although it is quite small, it is extremely tricky. This is partly because I’m trying to write optimized code. I feel slightly guilty because this is not how you are supposed to write [...]
Sometimes my thoughts just flow around from one topic to the next. Even as an interesting thought comes along that deserves careful scrutiny (or more often urgent attention) my mind has made another obscure connection and is moving in an altogether different direction. Often there is no control, no logic, just random glimpses of promising [...]
I’m not feeling well. I don’t often patronize McDonald’s, but I had some this evening. For the first time ever, I’m experiencing the mood swings described in “Supersize Me”. Very odd, like a bad pot trip. I feel a little depressed, languid, and I have strange sense of foreboding. I was a moderately hot day [...]
Not like a dog at all, really. Perhaps a sheep dog. Short attention span, short bursts of activity. But most of the time I just lie around the house (or office) thinking my own thoughts to myself. To be honest, some days I think that I might as well return my salary. No effort and [...]
After a 4 month hiatus, the show is on the road again. Although unintentional, I think that the break was a good idea. I don’t have the time or energy to relate all of the events since September, but perhaps I’ll fill in the most important details as time goes by. In the last week, [...]