2013 — 23 September: Monday
On dull, grey, drizzly mornings, it's good to have a roof over your head.1 The regular batch of weekend radio downloads is done, there's a somewhat empty look to Mother Hubbard's cupboard calling for my attention soon, a walk planned for tomorrow, and an unfun root canal session on Wednesday afternoon. For someone who doesn't believe in planning, I'd say that's pretty good so far. Deserves breakfast, at least.
I knew there are...
... possibly other reasons to watch "The Simpsons". (Proof.)
And now news of...
... a birthday commemoration lunch treat this coming Friday, too. How lucky can one chap get?! :-)
Meanwhile, having torn up BT's latest offer to persuade me on to their broadband (they invited me to check, and gasp at, its speed compared to my present fibre connection but, alas, the powers of their Marketing department have no sway over the "laws of physics, Captain") and having torn up the IBM Retirement Club's latest offer to persuade me on to a couple of their planned outings (the idea of closeting myself in a coach with a bunch of my lovely ex-colleagues and their spouses is wrily amusing, somehow) I think I shall turn my attention to the topic of some lunch.
I think it's brightened up to the point where I can safely predict a little post-lunch expotition of some sort. Much as I enjoy good music and good reading... I also note, en passant, that I have successfully tamed the wilder excesses of my Copernic desktop search tool and its somewhat profligate indexing habits. Took me a while, but I got there. Good software, if a little over-enthusiastic at times.
Although it's obvious — glancing at these figures — that BlackBeast is basically purring in its sleep at the moment (the TextPad editor adds a seventh App and another negligible 8.9MB to the RAM footprint I captured a couple of minutes ago) I still find the amount of memory needed by software in these Enlightened times to be just, well, staggering. In earlier years, I earned the cost of my various bits and pieces of home computing (and indeed, other items of home technology) many times over while writing freelance code for an ICL 1500 Series desktop mini (originally a Cogar C4, of course) that never ever had more than 32KB to execute in.
That's what Assembler is good for, of course :-)
As I continue...
... the tedious process of 'bazuka'-ing my verruca, I'm forcibly reminded each day (for the five minutes or so it takes this strange syrup-like concoction of aspirin and lactic acid to 'set' and form its protective skin) of how very much I need the entire undersurface of both my feet to be available for comfortable locomotion. Still, so far (at least) there's been no apparent discomfort. I'm not very good with discomfort. I tend to curse. A lot.