Excuses

I’ve been pretty slack, the last few weeks, in writing here. It’s not from lack of events or other things to write about – quite the contrary, I’ve got a big backlog of things to enter here. More just that I haven’t been in the right sort of mood, and have been reasonably busy… or… Read more

Axis & Allies

It was Rob’s birthday back on the… 18th, I think. I’m sure he’ll correct me when he reads this. Anyway, this year that was somewhat brushed over with project and whatnot, and I had my dad’s 50th that weekend so I couldn’t join Rob. He went to Darkzone in Box Hill with his sister and… Read more

Alco’s birthday

Last Friday was Alco’s birthday (party, anyway… not sure when the actual day is). Ben & Sverre hosted a gathering at their place, which I went to… I was tossing up whether or not to go, but in the absence of a tangible reason not to, I relented. I think I figured that with Open… Read more

iPod earbud died

I was just walking to the shops this morning when the left earbud started playing up, turning off and on. I thought it was my iPod – a reasonable assumption given the general unreliability of the little bastard – but now that I get home and play with the earbuds with my Powerbook, no, it… Read more

FAT Complete

Successfully created “/NewDir/”.Successfully closed “/NewDir/”.Successfully created “/NewDir/NewFile4”.Successfully closed “/NewDir/NewFile4”. So that’s it; my FAT driver is now complete enough for our purposes, and I’m confident enough that it works.

The virtues of singular exits

I’m reminded now about the virtues of singular exits – that is, functions with only one exit point. I was a bit lazy while writing the FAT driver code, and put in a bazillion exit points. The only thing that was really surprising about that, in hindsight, is how long I managed to get away… Read more