…removing an empty album in your gallery turns into deleting your entire collection of around 2000 photos.
Quick reflexes limited the damage to one album – the Animals one, and backups should help me get that back.
Definitely not what I needed given the number of hours I’ve been putting in to organizing and uploading lately…
Archive for January, 2007
You know it’s time to go to bed when…
Monday, January 8th, 2007(not) Observable
Saturday, January 6th, 2007Why aren’t Java classes Observable by default? Or at least, why isn’t java.util.Observable an Interface?
gah!
So who exactly is the child?
Friday, January 5th, 2007I keep seeing people say that the Squeak user interface will turn off “serious” developers.
It seems to me that a serious developer knows full well that the colour of the IDE and the shape of the buttons have very little to do with the quality of the programming environment.
If anyone is turned off Squeak or Smalltalk because they felt the Squeak 3.8 UI was too childish for them, then they were never interested in learning it in the first place.
There’s no law that says serious work can’t come from a colourful environment.
2006
Monday, January 1st, 2007A quick summary of 2006 for me.
The good stuff:
- Travel! – Work sent me to Prague and Berlin on an incentive trip, then to Chicago and and a nowhere town (Dayton) in Ohio for some training afterwards.
- Met the wonderful Lori, who then visited me for a week, and stayed for three months
- Cons! – Conjure, Supanova, Conflux 3 and LACon IV
- Meeting others from Shadowmarch and Tad himself
- More travel! – Anaheim for LACon, followed by a couple of relaxing days in the San Francisco Bay area, then on to Canada with Lori
- Had a fairly productive, rather satisfying year at work – managed to instigate and see through some fairly significant changes to our development environment that have already paid off. (And most importantly, managed to ditch the horrible StarTeam in favour of Subversion and Jira). Also got to spend more time working in C rather than Java. Java’s not a bad language, but C is more fun.
The bad:
- Conflux 3 – definitely some of my worst moments of the year were Conflux related. I really wish that after all the pain we went through I’d actually managed to see some of the Con. Locking myself out of the house during it didn’t help either.
- Money. 2006 was a financial disaster for me – ended up at least $5k further in debt by the end of it than I started. I guess traveling will do that.
- Didn’t get much music done this year, Cumulo-Nimbus seems to have pretty much stopped, and I didn’t even really do any of my personal stuff.
- Lori lives in Canada.
All in all, I’d say it was a pretty good year – definitely one of my better ones. Not my best by a long way, but the good far outweighs the bad, and it was much better than any of the last three. 2007 looks like it should continue the trend.
Now what did I do on New Year’s eve?
I played Neverwinter Nights with Caitlin!