År: 2003

Trying to decide what to name my new computer at work. I’m choosing between Lovelace and Hopper. All computers at work are named after famous computer scientists (like Turing and Shannon) and not a single one is named after a female. So I’ve decided to name mine after one. But who? Ada Lovelace or Grace Hopper? (Ada Lovelace is claimed to be the first computer programmer, she worked with Charles Babbage and his analytical engine. Grace Hopper developed the first compiler.) Hopper is easier to write, but Lovelace is more well known…

Received my first order from colormailer.com today. Really impressed with the result, can’t see the difference from normal photographies. (If you place my e-mail address colormailer@sessan.com in the Promocode field while placing your order and you will receive 10 Free 10x15cm or 11x15cm Photo Prints with your first order…) Now I’m convinced that my new camera (Olympus C-5050z) was a great investment 🙂

At work, but can’t work with anything since my computer is down. I can use this one for a couple of hours, but it doesn’t have the development environments that I need. Boring… The computers we ordered last week are still in pre-production so I have no idea what to do until then.

This is exactly what I wanted to do with my computer earlier today.

It’s a classic, but I found it today again via SUPER fast COMPUTER.

Ok… right now I’m really angry!!! My f***ing computer got a blue screen and just continues to get it each time I reboot. So I guess there is not that much to do about it. (Error Message: Stop c000021a {Fatal System Error}. The first thing to do to recover from this error is to create a parallel installation of NT, and from that it gets even worse… nothing I’m willing to do.) We ordered a new computer last week but that one will not arrive for another two weeks, so I’m wondering what I’ll do until then. A programmer is no good without her computer.

So far today, I’ve at least managed to create a new CVS project and some modules for a new project at work… I’ve learned my lesson the hard way, what happens when you don’t use CVS for your projects. Last week we noticed that I had been cleaning my account a bit too hard and had removed a whole project that was going to be used once more. (We noticed that the same day as we were going to ship the product…) Thank God that it wasn’t that hard to redo it, thanks to that I had used the same code for another project…