Spent most of the morning tracking down a highly elusive bug caused by uninitialised variable "A", which caused variable "B" to also go uninitialised (a function pointer) resulting in an impressive crash later on, but by that time variable "A" had been given the correct value thus covering its tracks.
On top of which the crashes only happened after a fully cold boot because the belatedly initialised value of "A" then persisted in RAM through resets.
All this in assembly code. With no debug interface to the hardware.
Upgrading Oracle database today - application server tomorrow - in between sorting lots of other faults. Good job I can multi task 😀
Reviewing WCAG 2 and setting up a fancy slideshow pro gallery using the flickr API
looking after my 1 year old son..
Writing a report trying to explain an a structural 'issue' we had on a vibration test - and then piecing together heaps of data from the structural analysis of the proposed fix even though it would have been fine if it had been made correctly in the first place.
Writing up the notes from a morning discussing ROTA implications with the GMP CTR ECBRN representative ...do I win a prize for using the most unintelligible abbreviations?
Screw work! I've just taken a couple of days off, a nice pic below of todays ride for all those slaving away 😆
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restoring backups to a server which broke.
Taking 2 hrs to do 10% of a db.
About to deliver a session on social class and identities.
Sat on a train from Waterloo, going back to office after a meeting 🙁
Checking the Google Analytics and setting up goals for the latest website I've built ([url= http://www.paincommunitycentre.org ]www.paincommunitycentre.org[/url], if I can be so bold as to post it here!).
Also, moaning about the new ITSM software we've just implemented - I think if I had built it, I'd be looking for a new job...
Rachel
Catching up on some studying while writing a project handover, before moving onto my next fun filled task of this week. Oh and rebuilding my laptop, drinking some coke, thinking about biking this weekend and sorting out the companies telephony during a BT outage. Who says men can't multi-task?
Building various (online training/elearning) demos for a couple of prospects, while trying to juggle (er, complete) 5-6 live projects.
Preparing for tomorrow's internal meeting.
Working on some pro-mat.
Collating material for a new site build.
Anaesthetising a patient so the surgeon can replace a bone in his hand. it's in the not very interesting part of the operation at the moment. the surgeon would no doubt disagree.
Also unemployed. Trying to find work.
Software Engineer in Ceredigion just in case....
Finishing off a virtualisation cluster design for our Barcelona offices, to offer HA/DRS across geographically dispersed sites.
I don't get a site visit to implement. 🙁
Work out a practical way of managing re-usable source code for the European Space Agency:
1. The basic mission control software
2. The Earth Explorer mission variant
3. The Global Monitoring variant of the Earth Explorer variant
4. Three Sentinel mission variants of the Global Monitoring variant
5. Back compatible with the Aeolus and Swarm missions
It should be layered like Lasagne. But it's currently spaghetti.
variable "A", which caused variable "B" to also go uninitialised
Chris: you know you can use longer variables names in proper programming languages!? 😉
Waiting for my weekly 4.15 Wednesday conference call with a big client. It's always 50/50 as to whether the call goes well or the client decides to be awkward. Been with us for five years so far so think we doing the job right(ish)!
Then writing up notes and chilling.
Night ride at 8pm with a few mates.
Off sick :0( Currently looking at bed and breakfasts in the middle of nowhere to escape to next week to help clear my head
Due at work in less than 3 hours, so now off for some kip.
I've done the school runs, looked after our 4 year old for an hour or so, walked the dog twice, sawed some wood and chopped kindling.
The Mrs will come in the night and ask why I've never emptied the dishwasher of course or done any other house hold chores.
Need to access work emails but forgot the URL for the server so it can wait until tonight.
Surface modelling some half-bolted link dies for my friends in Poland 8)
Day off today
Although I did pop into work to pick up some mud tyres for this evenings ride
Unemployed. Trying to find work.
Gone are the days of coming out with £700 a week 🙁
Nipped home to bleed my rear brake. Now anticipating this eve's ride. First night ride of the season.
Orf in a mo. BYE!
Building a 7MB excel model.
trying to prepare for a business trip next week to 2.5 big customers.
And Cranberry, can you tell me how to get hold of a set of patents for free (a couple of hundred would do, but pref more) or for very little money?
Building a 7MB excel model
That's definitely the most impotent willy wave of all time 😆
DEALS 😡
Well today I have spent 4 hours with two groups of students going over their engineering projects, Ive just finished working on a vehicle layout and now going to work on designing a new security feature for the South African CV market (maybe sometime I will find time to design my bike as well!)
Waiting to jump on the Brommo and charge to Waterloo, weaving like a fish through the London traffic and scattering pedestrians and lard-arsed northerners out of my way as I plummet towards and round, the IMAX Death Race 2000 circus....
Not working, studying Excel 2007 + vba etc. Anyone want a Excel developer? I'm very cheap!
Survived the call.
Thank ****.
Packing up to go home... but I've been doing virtualisation stuff, building a new server, dev'ing in VBA (Access 2000... horrible stuff), and doing pen testing on one of our systems. It's an interesting job, can't complain!
Spent most of my morning screaming at my year nine class to stop being horrible to each other.
Then had a really nice lesson with my small class of knackers, never seen disaffected kids use a dictionary so fast.
Then a semi ok lesson teaching students how to fill out their APP sheet to monitor their progress.
And then a good twenty minutes discussing with one student's tutor how he was the densest kid I had ever met, he's like a caractature of a stupid kid, a living dopey from the seven dwarfs.
knocked a chimney breast into a inglenook today. dirty work.
Trying to translate some PLC ladders written in technical German so the HMI shows fault messages in english for the machine operators. I've had some highly amusing babble fish translations so far. Later I've got to get the cherry picker out and figure out whats wrong with one of the gas heaters on the roof. I'm not usually bothered about heights, but this thing wobbles and sways about a foot in each direction when at full height 🙁
Might dunk my chain and cassette in the solvent bath later before I leave for home. Thinking of changing from squirt wax to wet lube. 😕
I was writing a script to spoof the inputs from web services from partners on our project so we can test our stuff without them. Now I've switched to trying to finish my PhD.
Currently on a conference call to the US. Duller than a week's exposure to Woman's Hour, if you can believe it
Sitting in the Hilton bar in Sofia [s]catching up on the day's emails while out setting up a technical support team here[/s] wasting my life away on STW 😀
I climbed a snowy hill for work this afternoon.
Photoshopping appropriate clothes back onto women holiday makers riding funfair rides that i manufacture, so I can I send the pictures to fairly strict islamic countries !! it actually makes me feel pure 🙂
Today I had a pre contract meeting for some remedial work to a house in Newcastle, followed by a site inspection of some shire piles in York and then some monitoring in Sheffield. Still havent made it to the office , i have lots of paper work to do tomorrow!
The usual mixed bag of cases on murderers, peados and nice people who have been wronged. 😕
Dodged a couple of chairs that flew off the 2's landing on G wing tonight.
Maybe the same agian tomorrow, who knows.