Went for a walk at the weekend, up the River Loddon with my Dad and my two children.
(Now I know that in reality I live close to two motorways, a train line and under the flight path to Heathrow, but I can ignore that just because of the sheer amount of wildlife).
We saw the usual suspects, of course, (mallards, swans, geese, blackbirds, robins, great tits, etc.) but also gadwalls, long-tailed tits and, amazingly a kingfisher. Add to that, that there were four(!) red kites above my house yesterday, and all-in-all, I am a happy chappy.
Now, it's time for an admission: I hate GUI programming. Mono, Swing, Xt, GTK all hold painful memories for me. (I once wrote an entire application in XLib, so I know the pain of trying to write without a toolkit, too). Ajax toolkits are just as bad, except the documentation sucks arse, debugging is painful, and the technology really wasn't designed to do this.
JWZ famously once said of X11 programming "Using these toolkits is like trying to make a bookshelf out of mashed potatoes". I'd say Ajax programming is the same, but without any limbs.
I've become a huge fan of meebo at work, since installing more and more software on a Windows box is a recipie for disaster. ;-) It does show that other people are a lot better than I am with Ajax, though. :-(
MySpace is a load of old toss. There, I said it. I set up an account, just because other members of my family have them, but I don't use it. So why do random strangers feel the need to ask to be my friend? Fuck you, and fuck off. Losers.
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