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12:21 am

Box of Chicken?:

Net is really awful today from the university of washington. I'm thinking it's about time I bought an account at a local ISP. Recommended ones in the Seattle area seem to be Halcyon and SeaNet. I'm tempted to hold off by the fact that we may be able to connect our in-house network to an unnamed employer of Ed's via T-1 pretty soon. Then we could sell connectivity to the rest of the house. Of course, then we're just asking for phone calls in the middle of the night whining that the connection is slow. I remember what being tech support is like. Fact, I just got off the phone with my little brother. His computer decided his modem didn't exist anymore. Finical things, these computers.

"Technical writing is almost immortal". -- TMMM. Hey! Just like database designs! Or date schemes! Because no one wants to replace them. You want to leave a long-lasting mark on the world? Create something useful that is a gigantic pain in the neck to replace.

First goths, now people with cameras. Concentrations of similiar people in the area. I know. Maybe the people with cameras are photographers, attracted by all the hep and easily-marketable gothic-person photo-ops. OR, maybe this is just my first summer in Capitol Hill. Either way, I don't know whether to buy vinyl pants or a camera. Or a bed. Or teeth.

Got another step closer to understanding windows. Not learning MFC, though. I'm just doing it. Dumb style. There's this guy who wrote a windows program in assembly language. I sort of understand why. He wants the barest functionality, though he probably wouldn't describe it that way. He'd say "I'm not wastefully including the huge masses of functionality that I'm not going to use." His programs run quick. And are small. 11K executable. Don't require MFC dlls. Any dlls, I don't think. He pretty much wrote his own controls.

Looks like work will be my next stop.

Work is at: 9 am