Jay McGavren's Journal

2007-07-30

Diana’s friend is on a diet.  Diana’s on a diet to support her.  I’m on a diet to support Diana.  Let’s keep the chain going - anyone want to keep me company in my misery?  :)

Atkins shakes, light-meat poultry, sugar-free Jello.  Little fat and absolutely no sugar.  It’s actually tolerable food-wise, but I’m finding myself lethargic and a little dizzy in the evenings.  Hopefully that’ll balance out over time.

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2007-07-26

Zyps 0.1.1

OK, Zyps 0.1.1 is at last released. Here’s the site…

http://jay.mcgavren.com/zyps (now W3C-validated!)

Zyps site

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2007-07-25

Why I'm miserable right now...

4gl isn’t catching blatant errors (like number of arguments when opening a cursor) at compile time.  (Hopefully they all get caught before production…)

I have to commit my buggy code into SCCS if I want %C% replaced with line numbers in my error statements.

I have to manually check code back out after each commit, at which point the file is changed, so my editor reloads it. I lose my place each time.

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2007-07-25

Diana has had the Tivo recording any program with “Egypt” in the title.  I now know more about the pharaohs than anyone who doesn’t live in North Africa should.

On the positive side, the “Comedy - Standup” wishlist is da bomb.

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2007-07-24

I’m actually starting to get excited about this replay editor they’re including in Halo 3.  From the description I heard on the 1up Yours podcast, I’ll be spending quite a lot of time playing with it.

Now, the question remains: will the damn networking actually work?

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