![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
(no subject)
Sep. 12th, 2007 09:11 pmI like my doctor. He prescribed me some sort of gel to apply to the affected area, and like any diligent medical practitioner, was quick to warn me of the critical side-effects - "it's like a bleach... that black t-shirt you're wearing now, it'll turn white". I also got some powerful anti-biotics, which will be fighting it out later with the pro-biotics in my yoghurt. May the best biotic win!
![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
lost_in_moose helped me find an obscure bug at work today. Text that was too big for the buttons wasn't being rendered at all, when it should have been clipped short instead, and it wasn't immediately easy to see why this was the case. It turned out that aligning text that was too big involved placing it negatively offset from the original position, but the numbers we were using didn't allow for negative values, changing them to massive ones instead. The end result was that the text was rendering, just roughly 660 kilometres away, which in this case is a spot in the North Sea east of the Orkney Isles. And not on-screen. I will be fixing that tomorrow.
Also at work,fiendil came in for an interview, which seemed to last for about seven hours, and ended up with the boss showing him the small soundproofed room, which is where I think we should keep him if he ends up working there.
My friend Susan moves to the UK next week, in anticipation of her studies at Nottingham Uni. If her boyfriend lets me borrow her for a bit, I'll try and introduce her to some of you local types. Don't think I'll bring her out to Full Metal Racket though; much as I usually enjoy it, it's not how I'd like to introduce someone to England. It's bad enough thatspurnnedhistory had to suffer Those Toilets.
My latest piece of music - the innovatively-named "Track 11" - is nearly done, despite Sonar screwing up and starting to take 7 minutes to save or load the project, doing absolutely nothing useful for the middle 6 minutes and 50 seconds. There might even be vocals on this one. It depends how sober I can get to write lyrics, and how drunk I can get to perform them.
I am also looking forward to the results ofspazzhammer's Livejournal Post Rating. I have always been a fan of quantitative measurement of things, especially those which some claim cannot be measured so easily. Still, I have doubts about the validity of his methods.
lost_in_moose helped me find an obscure bug at work today. Text that was too big for the buttons wasn't being rendered at all, when it should have been clipped short instead, and it wasn't immediately easy to see why this was the case. It turned out that aligning text that was too big involved placing it negatively offset from the original position, but the numbers we were using didn't allow for negative values, changing them to massive ones instead. The end result was that the text was rendering, just roughly 660 kilometres away, which in this case is a spot in the North Sea east of the Orkney Isles. And not on-screen. I will be fixing that tomorrow.Also at work,
fiendil came in for an interview, which seemed to last for about seven hours, and ended up with the boss showing him the small soundproofed room, which is where I think we should keep him if he ends up working there.My friend Susan moves to the UK next week, in anticipation of her studies at Nottingham Uni. If her boyfriend lets me borrow her for a bit, I'll try and introduce her to some of you local types. Don't think I'll bring her out to Full Metal Racket though; much as I usually enjoy it, it's not how I'd like to introduce someone to England. It's bad enough that
spurnnedhistory had to suffer Those Toilets.My latest piece of music - the innovatively-named "Track 11" - is nearly done, despite Sonar screwing up and starting to take 7 minutes to save or load the project, doing absolutely nothing useful for the middle 6 minutes and 50 seconds. There might even be vocals on this one. It depends how sober I can get to write lyrics, and how drunk I can get to perform them.
I am also looking forward to the results of
spazzhammer's Livejournal Post Rating. I have always been a fan of quantitative measurement of things, especially those which some claim cannot be measured so easily. Still, I have doubts about the validity of his methods.
