Created: 18 Dec 2003
Fine outside, but I hardly noticed the day. Got stuck into some reading and finishing off my smart upload script. Unfortunately it turned out to be rather less smart than I thought and deleted quite a large proportion of this site until I stopped it. It’s usable now, but I did spend half an hour looking for a phantom bug, which eventually turned out to be user error; I was feeding the script a duff argument.
Good distractions from real world matters were several rather bizarre conversations on IRC, which really cheered me up. The HantsLUG mailing list turned up some flames, but nothing of great interest.
Joel Spolsky’s latest article was reasonably thought-provoking.