The Sound of Silence
In restless dreams I walked alone
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
’neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.
Quiet day at the office today.
Empty day at the office today.
Mostly because the majority of the department way away having a party I wasn't invited to, being just a lowly code monkey as I am. Managed to get a bit done anyhow... redefined age, blamed more of the 'issues' assigned to me to fix on other people, and pass them on to someone else to fix, and upgraded from "incredibly bad BASIC-styled language" to "moderately better BASIC-styled language". And instantly wished I could go the whole way up to C++ "a pretty reasonable language", since despite the fact "moderately better BASIC-styled language" is much more powerful than "incredibly bad BASIC-styled language", it doesn't support everything I'd appreciate being able to do (like overwrite random bits of memory with random noise, something that's much easier to do than it should be in C).
Ah well, the grass is always greener they say. Though personally, I think a pastel blue colour would look great.
Narrow streets of cobblestone,
’neath the halo of a street lamp,
I turned my collar to the cold and damp
When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light
That split the night
And touched the sound of silence.
Quiet day at the office today.
Empty day at the office today.
Mostly because the majority of the department way away having a party I wasn't invited to, being just a lowly code monkey as I am. Managed to get a bit done anyhow... redefined age, blamed more of the 'issues' assigned to me to fix on other people, and pass them on to someone else to fix, and upgraded from "incredibly bad BASIC-styled language" to "moderately better BASIC-styled language". And instantly wished I could go the whole way up to C++ "a pretty reasonable language", since despite the fact "moderately better BASIC-styled language" is much more powerful than "incredibly bad BASIC-styled language", it doesn't support everything I'd appreciate being able to do (like overwrite random bits of memory with random noise, something that's much easier to do than it should be in C).
Ah well, the grass is always greener they say. Though personally, I think a pastel blue colour would look great.
posted by Sarum at
Tuesday, May 18, 2004
4 Comments:
It was an excellent party!
"Moderately better" isn't going to cut it from next month, I'm afraid!
[Nerdy Bit]
"Moderately Better" is VB6, which I'm supposed to be writing unit pricing table generating software with. I'd really like to do it in a nice dynamic way... you give it some sort of table spec (source files, lookup key locations and values, target fund IDs, and price location, etc), and it goes away and put it all together. Then we'd be able to use one program to generate almost all the prices we use (except perhaps the ones that require playing about with the mainframes) I'm not sure I have time to play around getting that to work properly though. I think it was something else I wanted to be able to access memory directly for... I wanted a linked-list style construct, but I can't remember what for now.
In other news, the conversation that I didn't listen in on rather than doing my work this morning, suggested that I might not have left your Greek Goddess as far behind as I'd thought Chip...
[/Nerdy Bit]
Correct! Hence my earlier post. He does talk too loudly, doesn't he?!
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