Rather than just put all my Demon-hosted content back as is, it's a good time to refresh my web presence.
I've put a lot of the proto-bloggy cat-blog material into one blog; and my updates of my code-project GeoCities site into another.
And I've moved some of the code archives onto GeoCities UK for the moment, giving chance for a whole new look and feel of web design. I shall keep it small and simple, to get the design (especially the not-yet-written JavaScript environment) before doing a mass upload of many pages.
Cycling to work from having running repairs done to the tooth that was playing up at the start of the year (bits falling off now), it was a lovely morning for ambling along the Coton footpath (dodging the hedge cutting), and then on to the old main road.
Were it not for the 3 bits of single-lane roadworks it would have been marvellously quiet cycling. As it was, one was a dismount and push; and the other two too long for me to get through before the lights changed at the other end. And with string between cones, not easy to just nip out of the way of oncoming traffic.
Woken about 04:30 by having to help Karen to the bathroom, by 05:00 I gave up the unequal struggle and admitted that in the morning light, I was awake; so fired up the laptop and fiddled a bit with the blog, setting up Google Reader and tapping aggregations from that.
I wasn't the only one active at that time -- one of the UK blogs produced a flurry of posts at about 05:20.
On the road by 07:00, at the office by 07:50 for Bike-to-Work Day, and breakfasted copiously; then showered, and with the rest of the team, hit the road down to Chalfont. Going A1/M25, with stop/start traffic from junctions 19-21, it took 2h15. On the return, starting at 15:30 went A413, through Wendover to Tring, B488, A505, A5, A4012, A421, A428 took the same, even with a stop for petrol, and unusually slow traffic between the M1 and Bedford.
In the garden, about 30 minutes ago, just enjoying the slow twilight, I was taken by surprise by a hedgehog crossing the property, and disappearing under the fence.
You're a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most
important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better.
After all, time is money.
You like coding at a Low level.
You're from the old school of programming and believe that you should have an
intimate relationship with the computer. You don't mind juggling registers
around and spending hours getting a 5% performance increase in an algorithm.
You work best in a Solo situation.
The best way to program is by yourself. There's no communication problems, you
know every part of the code allowing you to write the best programs possible.
You are a liBeral programmer.
Programming is a complex task and you should use white space and comments as
freely as possible to help simplify the task. We're not writing on paper anymore
so we can take up as much room as we need.
Some of my style sheets and links from this blog are hosted on my Demon homepages site. For the first time in 10 years, there seem to be problems with it. For the moment I'll do a partial lash-up, with some of the style information on my home server (router persistence permitting) but maybe I'll rework the whole layout to be local.
After 3 weeks for decorating and carpeting, where I'd moved everything from the main bedroom into the spare room, we are now back in the proper bedroom. The only time any of this works on the house actually pushed me out of the familiar east-facing aspect.
This starts to explain some of the Bokurano before and after from yesterday…
And the drive in wasn't too bad. The "main" road through Kingston was being marked as closed, and the lake was still there at the first turn off into Bourn; but the rest was free of standing water. There was still running water in the usual bits in Bourn; and a lot of mud and gravel washed onto and across the roads.
By this evening even that standing water was gone; though the rest persisted.
As noted earlier, as I'm watching this season's Bokurano, I thought I ought to go back and watch him do to the monster-trainer genre what Bokurano does for super-robots, which is to add a lot of damaged children and death.
As expected, the anime bottles out from the bleakness of the manga (though it is still a lot less jolly than the misleading OP might indicate) -- both softening for TV what it does cover; and then just stopping dead half-way through the story, not even going as far as the Dark Horse translation which got 3/4 of the way before being lost.
Now I guess I have to just go look at the pictures for the last couple of volumes, with that weird sort of fascination normally found when examining a wound.
Also…
Bokurano is, as I'd been expecting, bottling out too. OK, some of it was bound to happen, like showing Aiko interrupted doing her hair (top left), when it's hinted in the manga (lower left) that, well, maybe she might possibly have been using a hairbrush, but certainly not a dryer; and skirting around the more extreme parts of Chizu's plight. But having Kako die in friendly fire (top right), rather than having Chizu cut his throat (lower right) for scrapping with another of the kids when he should have been piloting starts to make it far too close to being nice.
And more…
To the earlier list, add Dennou Coil -- an Augmented Reality cyberpunk-ish school story/mystery. I don't know where it's going, but it's being fun.
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