September 27th, 2007

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Poll #1062297 Globetrotter
Open to: All, detailed results viewable to: All. Participants: 23

Global Warming:

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Is a scientific fact, and if you question it, you're a fool or a conservative stooge.
6(30.0%)
Seems to be consistent with the evidence, but there is some room for questioning.
7(35.0%)
Is an unproven theory, as there is evidence both for and against it
2(10.0%)
Is most likely a misrepresentation of completely natural phenomena, and something we can't do anything about
3(15.0%)
Is a total fabrication, and if you believe it you are either a fool or a liberal wacko.
2(10.0%)

Global Worming:

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Ha! Funny!
6(27.3%)
Giant flea collar
4(18.2%)
How dare you make fun of a serious world problem?
1(4.5%)
Worms eat dead people
11(50.0%)
My butt itches
0(0.0%)

Notice how you never see Elmer Fudd and Daniel Boone together at the same time?

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Now that you mention it, that is a little strange.
0(0.0%)
Well of course not, they're actually the same person in different guises
0(0.0%)
Conspiracy! Conspiracy!
2(8.7%)
It's the Dutch, you know.
9(39.1%)
You're really bored silly, aren't you?
12(52.2%)
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I earned my pay these last couple of days with fixing an "issue" with the software. I say "issue" because it wasn't really a bug, but a side effect of another feature that had been requested so long ago. To fix the issue, I had to create new flags in a data structure that is shared across not only multiple processes but multiple operating systems, I had to add the hooks into the code to successfully manage the flags in the correct order under every circumstance of operation. It turned out to be a pretty major piece of distributed coding in two different languages, and I got it to work.

For those of you who understand the subtleties, I had to do this without any kind of synchronization like semaphores or mailboxes or message pipes. Strictly flags and asynchronous logic.

There are still some issues that I think need to be addressed, but they're relatively minor compared to this one-- though one is going to be a pain in the ass because we don't have a messaging system between the two different operating systems.