I just heard from my brother. My grandmother had a seizure on Monday and is not in a good way. This is not good – prayers would be appreciated.

Also, I have just spent two hours on the phone with a business meeting. I do have a headset phone, but the headset is broken. I really need to get that fixed ASAP. My arm is a bit numb actually, although the feeling is coming back…

A couple of years back I needed to attend a planning meeting in the USA. I could not attend in person so I did it as a teleconference. I think I ended up spending about six hours on the phone, and that time I most certainly did wear a headset. It would have been more time on the phone, but I went to sleep about 1AM for a few hours whilst the other people in the USA continued to work. That is the problem with the international time zones.

My ‘C’ programming is going well, although there are times that I am using the wrong functions. One of my ‘C’ languages uses slen to determine the length of a string, and another uses strlen. strlen is more common, but is implemented in a library, rather than in the core language so anyone can implement it how they like. They are normally consistant, but not enough as can be seen in this case?

The question as to why they didn’t put the string functions in the core language. This is a language that was written in the 1970’s on computers costing the equivalent of $100,000 or more. The response was that they wanted the langauge to be able to be used to control a toaster. Completely stupid at the time, but it is about close to the truth these days.