Tuesday, July 10th, 2001

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10:23p	Yesterday... Wow. The Catelyn ending of Game of Thrones was totally unexpected, and yet completely inevitable. (Robert Francis as the Satirical Rogue? Look it up.) It was shockingly good. I almost didn't want to read the Daenerys lead-in to the next book, but that went well. Eight hundred or so pages, phew. It has slack, but so does Odyssey. Squeak: thinking of abandoning the Compass class approach for a simple Pen. Hm. Waiting for the Squeak book to come out. Ordered a video capture card, but they were out; but they had a Kritter/CapSure package deal that they offered at the same price; a free camera? How could I refuse? At the office, talked with Karlene about Sunday; it did not go well, but she acquitted herself well, and none of the problems were her fault. I should have seen the semaphore problem coming sooner. I explained to her about the ordering problem that PerformanceStudio has with TCP connections and how to deal with it. Took the new guys and everyone else to lunch, but was called away to a meeting, so Kathryn took care of the bill, but she split it up! All I could do was giver her my share. So instead of treating the new guys, I stuck them with terrible service at a higher-than-usual price. Oh well. Meeting: Merrill doesn't seem to have much use for a test plan, but every time we've short-changed our process, we've been burned--never again. After, I read Capers Jones's Benchmarks, Assessments, Best Practices book and found some papers on function point counting practices. After, I assured Steve Johnson that we would not be using Strategizer in the engagement. Came home, finished GRRM, wow. Watched Galaxy Quest. Apparently KaZaA has a 59-function library to implement the KaZaA/Morpheus client, that they license to people who want to slap their own interface on it, like MusicCity did with Morpheus. Maybe I could get in touch with them to opt for a Macintosh version? Or should I try to reverse engineer the stuff on my own? Hm. Next, I guess David Gerrold's Middle of Nowhere, or perhaps Bulgakov's Master and the Margarita, whatever I grab first on my way. Current Mood: jubilant Current Music: Winter Hours, Roadside Flowers (Comment on this)
10:38p	Today This morning I picked Middle of Nowhere over Bulgakov. Picked over it on the morning train, but read the other T Capers Jones book, Estimating Software Costs that I had borrowed from Bill, the section on Sizing. I'm still trying to get a grasp of function point analysis without paying IFPUG $80 for the counting practices manual. At work, dug more into it, but spent most of the day with the VUELTA training program. PerformanceStudio choked processing Morpheus transactions. Hm. Looked over the session file, but no certificates seemed to pass, and yet I can't find out where requests and returns are made. I see how it requests files from other servers, but not how searches are made. Probably done in binary? Billy Idol video, "Cradle of Love." Looked through resources on Card Modeling. Gary just pisses me off, with his smarmy digs. "When you get on site, you'll get another shirt." VUELTA VUELTA VUELTA. Annette and I left at the same time as Scott, last ones there again. Protest against some Provost of NAHB right outside our building. Scott of course leaving for CT in his car, Annette and I homeward by way of PATH and NJ Transit. She mentioned that Jennifer wanted to talk to me. Sounds ominous. She's reading some Graham historical romancing featuring Vikings; I left Estimating at the office, so I start Middle. Same characters as in Star Hunt, though I remember something in Hunt about it being a different timeline or something? Hm. Arrogant Commander Korie wants captaincy. Tenchi Muyo first tape ("No Need for Discussion!") at home. Pore through MacAddict, Entertainment Weekly, Dr. Dobbs Journal that came in recently. I'll call Jen tomorrow. Current Mood: pissed off Current Music: The Beatles, Run for your life (Comment on this)

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