A very buggy weekend
News ·Monday July 10, 2006 @ 01:58 EDT (link)
O soul, are you weary and troubled?
No light in the darkness you see?
There's light for a look at the Saviour,
And life more abundant and free!
Turn your eyes upon Jesus,
Look full in His wonderful face;
And the things of earth will grow strangely dim
In the light of his glory and grace.
—Turn Your Eyes upon Jesus, Helen H. Lemmel (1864-1961)
Lot of time spent on bugs this weekend, and unfortuantely not very much to show for it, although I did make some check-ins before the screws are turned down another notch and the bar is raised for the coming week. First I was trying to reorganize my OfficeArt print performance fix to run over the layout rectangles (LRGs) one less time, but I don't think that work will get in (nor do I mind very much) since it requires a lot of shuffling around of the print code for very little gain, and we're trying to avoid those sorts of changes at this point. I actually got another print bug (thanks SI), but it needs a real printer, so I won't get to look at it until Monday (alright, later Monday, when I arrive on-site). I did make a small fix, and punt a few.
I also made some headway in a print bug; background printing, 2-up, draft mode, A4 pages; print once normally, then on the second print the 2-up pages are skewed. Looks like we're setting one of our internal page structures to A4, and either not clearing it, or not resetting it, for the next print. Which page bounds, you say (c'mon, you're curious, I know it). Is it the vprsu.zaPage, vprsu.cPrZoomZ, vprsu.zaPrZoomPaper, vpri.pageDflt, vpri.pageRqd, vpri.cPrZoomZ, vpri.pagePreZoom, vpri.zaPrZoomPaper, vpri.pageAcetate, vpri.drcViewport, vpri.dzaZoomGoal, vpri.prdev.drcPrint, vpri.prdev.dzpRealPage, or perhaps the vpri.prdev.dzmmRealPage? Only time will tell. Updates will be posted when available; stay tuned to this space.
A shout out to Ali, in return for his link; a fellow Word writer. Speaking of writing with Word, here's a cover for the 2002 gansta version.
I've been playing the piano a fair bit, through the Hymns of Truth and Praise hymnbook, practicing the left hand mostly with Take Time to be Holy (Langstaff). I'm getting better at it; not much in comparison to anyone that's ever taken lessons, I'm sure; I'm barely ready to face the metronome. I still think an B-flat to D reach on the left is a mean trick; it's just beyond my reach. But playing is a peaceful way to spend a few hours.
We biked down the hill out the left of our street; it was a nice little ride. The road ends at a private drive, with a couple of pretty nice houses on it; I also found the private drive beings a bit earlier than I thought it did. There are fields and wildflowers and horses, and even a goat. Yes, a goat. Just sitting in a field, tied to a shelter of some sort. It's quite idyllic and I hope the recent annexation of some areas near the city limits doesn't cause any of it to be destroyed; nor any of the woods to the back of our property, where one can occasionally see deer.
I wish I hadn't spent so much time on bugs now, because Honey's right, the weekends should be our time, not Microsoft's, and it didn't even gain me all that much anyway. It's great to help the team, but perhaps working weekends and nights is a sign that there's something rotten in the state of Denmark (but on the other hand, as Brooks' law states so elegantly and a graph on AT's window well illustrates, adding manpower to a late project makes it later). Most of the time I love my work, and that's fine, but (uncompensated) overtime should never feel obligatory.
We picked up a few more of the DVDs that Grebel lost in the move that we'd remembered, and season one of Star Trek (the original series, not the one with the "bald-headed idiot", as my father in law likes to refer to Picard, although I think he'd enjoy The Next Generation if he gave it a try). Speaking of science fiction, try some short stories that I've been reading lately.
A shout out to Ali, in return for his link; a fellow Word writer. Speaking of writing with Word, here's a cover for the 2002 gansta version.
I wish I hadn't spent so much time on bugs now, because Honey's right, the weekends should be our time, not Microsoft's, and it didn't even gain me all that much anyway. It's great to help the team, but perhaps working weekends and nights is a sign that there's something rotten in the state of Denmark (but on the other hand, as Brooks' law states so elegantly and a graph on AT's window well illustrates, adding manpower to a late project makes it later). Most of the time I love my work, and that's fine, but (uncompensated) overtime should never feel obligatory.