06.01.08
Quotes
I’m going to use this post to store some of my favorite quotes.
“You cannot manage what you cannot measure.”
Bill Hewlett (Cofounder Hewlett Packard)
10.04.07
HDR by hand
I took a few snaps of the park with my phone while doing my walk this moring. The images dont line up as I had to point the camera at different heights to get the lighting right. Using Paintshop I’ve then used the clone tool to pick part of one image and overlay it on the other. I’ve spent two minutes on this test but will return to it and spend more time on it as I think the results will be worth the effort.
05.10.07
Two two letter words knock me for six..
I got to see the Professor Linch again on Tuesday and have more blood tests. The tests came back alright, my kidneys and liver are not suffering and my hemoglobin levels are not dropping, which is apparently one of their concerns. He was happy to hear that the good day – bad dad cycle is slowing down and has stretched out to good days and bad days, most of which are less severe. He says it could still take some considerable weeks to get past this stage of the disease. 
One of the things we spoke about was stress and avoiding it…. which was ironic given what would follow.
That day I’d been converting a MortScript on the PDA to Perl to see how much faster it would run. It should have been a simple stress free task.While at the hospital I had to wait quite a while and was getting most of the bugs out – missed “;” at the ends of lines, If .. EndIf blocks I’d not converted to If () {…} properly, etc. By the time I was back home I had it reporting only two syntax errors. Only two. They were simple lines, yet could I fix them? They looked fine. I was getting rather wound up and brought on a fatigue attack. Latter on after calming down and resting for a few hours I looked at it again and spotted the problem. Perl is case sensitive so “If” should be written “if”.
Then yesterday various family events lead to even more stress and the worse evening I’ve had in ages. To top it all, this morning I went to open the blinds in the living room and as I reached across the chairs for the cord a violent sneeze caused my to pull my back! Hopefully my back will be better tomorrow as I have my next-door neighbors funeral to go to at lunch time. This week month year could have gone so much better.
A big Hi! to Steve and Matthew in NY, it was good talking to you, Steve I hope you find an answer to your issue.
04.28.07
Thanks!
A big thanks for all the kind words from everyone at the office on Wednesday. It was very nice to see you all, and thanks to all of you who were able to join me for lunch. I looking forward to seeing you all again soon.
A extra THANKS! to Wei Li for volunteering to pack my desk up for the office move.