Up to Main Index Up to Journal for October, 2015 JOURNAL FOR FRIDAY 2ND OCTOBER, 2015 ______________________________________________________________________________ SUBJECT: Did you hear something? DATE: Fri 2 Oct 23:54:41 BST 2015 Haven't been writing journal entries again, ouch! :( October and the nights are drawing in already. Clock go back an hour on the 25th. At least we have Halloween to look forward to soon. /\../\ Week before last I started committing all of my changes for the inventory and location changes that required me going through all the command code I currently have implemented. I was supposed to complete that this week but WolfMUD Wednesday didn't happen and Thursday was a bust as well. Not my fault! Wednesday I was watching Google's live streamed press event launching the new Nexus phones, tablets and other devices. Suddenly my internet connection goes nuts and I have major issues connecting to anything Google related. I couldn't even finish a conversation I was having with Josh via hangouts as messages were not delivered or my messages didn't update so I couldn't see what Josh was saying :( By the time I'd sorted that out both my Wife's and Daughter's Android tablets were having issues. Sorted that out and my daughters free 30 day anti-virus subscription ran out. Started sorting that out. Downloaded new anti-virus, removed old anti-virus, reboot. Windows wants to install a bucket load of updates before shutting down. Finally reboots, wants to do more updates as it boots. Wait ages, finally install new anti-virus - which wants to do a full scan of the machine. Wait ages... is it doing anything? Drive activity LED flickers, progress slowly goes up, CPU mostly idle... finally finishes. By this time I'm so fed up and it's late I go and watch some TV before going to bed :( Josh and I are still emailing each other great tombs of emails full of ideas and discussions. Lately we have been discussing sound in MUDs. Not audio but textual descriptions of sounds, sounds coming from other rooms, the sound of fights breaking out, sounds drowning out other sounds. It's been a very interesting topic and has given me a lot of ideas :) We have also be lamenting over the state of current programmers. What I actually said was: "Programming should be a craft, programmers should be craftsmen, programmers who need to be told exactly what to do all the time are no better than code monkeys or users - they are as far from programmers as you can get and still touch a computer!" A little harsh? Not really. When I have a job to do I don't want to be doing their jobs as well - that's what they are supposed to be paid for. *big heavy sigh* -- Diddymus Up to Main Index Up to Journal for October, 2015