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. <\/p>\n
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… <\/p>\n
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. <\/p>\n
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? <\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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 …<\/p>\n