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Thursday, June 12, 2003

Hand me that hammer...
Sometimes programming, coding or even working with HTML (web pages) can be fun… when it works. Other times… well, it's kind of like that time in Dallas, stuck on the runway in sweltering heat waiting for a thunderstorm to pass. The plane was completely full and the air conditioning wasn't keeping up, not even close. The smell of foul breath and body odor slowly filling the cabin as the heat and humidity increased. Then the little baby in the seat behind starts crying, louder and louder, the mother frantically trying to stop it to no avail. You feel compassion at first then that slowly fades as the combined indignities press on your brain until… Suddenly the speaker crackles and the captain announces you are starting to move and everyone cheers. Programming is sometimes like that except for the cheers. I'm struggling with the 'archive' function. It sort of works, the book says it should work, but it doesn't work. Stand by a second, I need to go get a bigger hammer.