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I think I will reach the average of 1 PPY soon.
That is 1 post-per-year

How do you shoot your own foot while coding?
In RPG, each line ends with a semicolon (';') but I accidentally typed a colon (':') in several lines. Programmers are lazy and I am no exception. So I run a scan-replace changing all the : into ; . But now the compiles starts to complain (yep happens often) cause in function)-calls the parameters are separated by ; and not by : as they should be.
Scan-replace is your best friend. But your worst enemy at the same time.
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Talking about foot-shooting.
I still go to physio and I still walk there. I can cut trough some fields to almost half the distance. Now with a bad knee I didn't want to stumble trough an un-even over grown fields in the dark. So all trough winter and early spring I kept to the road, the longer distance was a good exercise in it's own right. Spring is well advanced now so it's clear when I finish. And it's been dry so there is no crawling trough mud.
So I took the short-cut today.

Only I started out on an unused part of the field and suddenly found myself surrounded by nettles. Imagine me, and old man wearing short trousers, shorts socks and shoes, surrounded by an army of young vigorous nettles aggressively waving they pricky leaves. Unprepared and out numbered one to a thousand I took up the battle and, after an epic struggle broke trough their ranks to regain my freedom.

While I slayed and trampled whole battalions of their soldiers they couldn't stop and kill me. They did score some hits though.
So now I am tending my battle wounds.

Yes, yes, I am still alive.
More alive than usual actually so I don't get online enough anymore.
To get better I am doing extra excercises for my leg and my elbow. The choice is between excercises or surfing. While I mis surfing I do feel the positive effect of the excercises. If I can keep up I'll be running again in summer and be back to my ald physical condition before winter. Months earlier than expected. The kinesist looked suprised when he saw me doing the required excercises. ^_^

Ok, you get some money, pay almost reasonable intrests ... and ... get your private data thrown for grabs.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/14/AR2007041401444.html
But you shouldn't complain, it's business as usual.

Who said playing games on a notebook was not good? Sure, some notebooks aren't made for gaming but some ...

www.engadget.com/2007/04/17/xbox-360-laptop-mk2/

OK, it's a one-off but still impressive.

Auch. Got to the doctor to get the stitches removed from my arm and knee.

Removing them hurts more than receiving them.

But they are out ... Yay!!

With go faster stripes : Shuttle 
(and a high power engine).

Loads of work. Most of it is replying on stupid questions.
The problem is that we are doing a lot of work caused by problems at a client (which is using SAP). They don't succeed in solving thier problem so they pass them on to us. This causes extra work on our side. But then they chalenge the invoice we send for the extra work. So now the managers here are searching for details to either prove the extra work or to pass the blame on.

And then the software engineer passes me some 'small' projects. Like 'just link a text-file to a load number'. Of course the textfile is no problem but of course I need to write an editor for it as well.

I used to blog on my own site. 
That is broken now so for the time being I'll blog here. Till I get the stoopid thing werking again.

PS for me BLOG stands for Bland-log (or Boring-log, often both) . 

Removing a blood-caked, dried-in bandage is no laughing matter.
I removed one from my knee without too much trouble. But on my knee I could use both hands while seeing what I was doing. Then I did the one on my elbow. I couldn't see the wound, less than half the sticky bandage was in sight. And I only had one hand to do it.
But I did get it off without breaking open the wound or hurting myself.

I made a mistake. I went to the hospital to have the iron pins and wires removed. Everything went well (including the 10hour wait) so they let me go home. Before leaving they offered me some pain killers but I kindly refused them. I also didn't take the prescription for more pain killers. Cause, at that moment I didn't feel any pain.
But later I regretted that. Strongly.
Pain is a strange thing. They give pain killers after an operation (IV type). I got one automatic refill of them but when they wanted t give a new refill at night I said I didn't need it. Same in the morning. And indeed while laying still in bed I didn't feel any pain. Well, not much anyway not enough to use pain killers. But once I got up and walking and sitting on the bus the pain came on. Every bump in the road felt like a hammer blow do my knee. With every corner the bus took it felt like someone tried to twist off mu leg. While the train didn't turn as sharp and didn't bump that hard the rhythmic track bumps just hurt as much.

But, that was yesterday. Today it still hurts but much less. I cannot bend my arm or knee but I don't have to.

Going to hospital for just two days takes an incredible amount of planning and work.
I go back to remove some iron pins from my elbow and to get the steel wires out of my knee. It basically is just about half an hour of work by the doctors. But they want to keep me over-night. Mainly cause they will apply full anesthetics and don't want me to walk out like a half zombie ^_^
Whatever, I am grateful they take in patients from an accident without all that paperwork.
But he is unconscious and bleeding to death!
Hmm, sorry about that. But he has to fill in and sign these sixteen forms before we can take him in.
But can't you see he is dying?!?!!
Well, in that case we have these seven extra forms to be signed and we need an allowance from his insurance (actually three allowances in six-fold) and ...
Arrgh

I don't hate hospitals, I only hate bureaucracies.