Ambivalent Tuesday
May. 24th, 2005 09:30 am+/-0: Pulling a muscle in your leg sucks, but Tiger Balm does not. Liberal application of that last night made my leg feel a lot better.
+/-1: I'm testing media stuff on Win98SE and WinME of all things. This is annoyingly complicated, since all of our automation is geared to work on Windows 2000 or later AND since none of the Win98 or WinME boxes can talk directly to the company network. So I have to kludge stuff to make the automation actually run on the test servers. The biggest kludge of all involves having to port out every single one of my player tests into standalone VB files to run one at a time on the Win98 client--because I can't actually use the automation harness because #1, it won't run on Win98, and #2, if I run the harness on another box, e.g., XP, I can't enlist the stupid client as an agent due to the "not really on the intranet" problem. So it's faster than manual testing, but only slightly.
On the other hand, it's kind of cool that I'm actually doing weird stuff like this, where most of the rest of the time is just chugging through the standard tests being run on XP and Longhorn. It means I've got enough experience that they can trust me to deal with the weird stuff!
+/-2: Today, I leave early from work. This would be cool, except that I have to go to a doctor's appointment. It's a followup ultrasound to make sure all is well with what's left of my thyroid, and that the little nodules in there still remaining aren't trying to grow into large mutant nodules that will turn me into a plant crea--ahem. Er, sorry, watching a lot of Lost in Space lately. ;)
It will be kind of nice, at least, to get a bit of a different bus ride for once. And I've got Sharon Shinn's Summers at Castle Auburn with me in case of boredom, as well as my handheld with which I can write. Also, as medical procedures go, ultrasounds on the neck aren't annoying.
+/-3: And speaking of reading, I have now finished Julie Czerneda's Survival. Picoreview: good work by Ms. Czerneda as always, and boy do I want to be her when it comes to writing SF. I do, however, have some nitpicks.
( Spoilers... )
Monday miles: 1.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 119.91
Miles to Rivendell: 338.09
+/-1: I'm testing media stuff on Win98SE and WinME of all things. This is annoyingly complicated, since all of our automation is geared to work on Windows 2000 or later AND since none of the Win98 or WinME boxes can talk directly to the company network. So I have to kludge stuff to make the automation actually run on the test servers. The biggest kludge of all involves having to port out every single one of my player tests into standalone VB files to run one at a time on the Win98 client--because I can't actually use the automation harness because #1, it won't run on Win98, and #2, if I run the harness on another box, e.g., XP, I can't enlist the stupid client as an agent due to the "not really on the intranet" problem. So it's faster than manual testing, but only slightly.
On the other hand, it's kind of cool that I'm actually doing weird stuff like this, where most of the rest of the time is just chugging through the standard tests being run on XP and Longhorn. It means I've got enough experience that they can trust me to deal with the weird stuff!
+/-2: Today, I leave early from work. This would be cool, except that I have to go to a doctor's appointment. It's a followup ultrasound to make sure all is well with what's left of my thyroid, and that the little nodules in there still remaining aren't trying to grow into large mutant nodules that will turn me into a plant crea--ahem. Er, sorry, watching a lot of Lost in Space lately. ;)
It will be kind of nice, at least, to get a bit of a different bus ride for once. And I've got Sharon Shinn's Summers at Castle Auburn with me in case of boredom, as well as my handheld with which I can write. Also, as medical procedures go, ultrasounds on the neck aren't annoying.
+/-3: And speaking of reading, I have now finished Julie Czerneda's Survival. Picoreview: good work by Ms. Czerneda as always, and boy do I want to be her when it comes to writing SF. I do, however, have some nitpicks.
( Spoilers... )
Monday miles: 1.0
Miles out of Hobbiton: 119.91
Miles to Rivendell: 338.09
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