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* Haven't posted much lately. Have moved 'progress report' stuff to the other "more professional" blog, gamesfairy , since it seems to fit there better.
* Been talking to Kim a couple times online - and she's been really friendly and nice and we've both gotten on and stuff. I'm really pleased with this! I had it in my mind that she hated me and would come and kick my ass if she ever saw me IRL (and, yes, was too scared to go to any clubs outside Hartlepool for this reason), but we seem to have made up and are carefully treating the other as an old friend. It's strange - she's managed to turn her life around, it seems, and has gotten rid of a lot of behaviours which she didn't like about herself, somehow without compromising her integrity as a person. It's really, really good to see people do this. She's one of the few people that 'got' how I used to feel when I would be so euphoric and sleep-deprived that I'd just burst in to tears and sway and do crazy-ass shit like that. She's got her own businesses going and everything - it looks like she still has all the traits I used to really like in her.
* Kat relationship is still good. We're well over the length of time that I've been with any other girl for. Talks of her moving in with me continue, but neither of us really want to share a house with my mother (not because my mother isn't wonderful, because she is).
* Found some weired .net behaviour the other day - I can execute an assembly, as a limited user, and have the following occur:
1) A managed exception thrown on the app. Normal.
2) An unmanaged exception caught by the CLR. Alarming, but I do interop with some COM so it's to be expected.
3) The CLR dying. All .net applications running as that user terminate. Bad.
4) If I'm lucky - one in five runs at a rough guess - all .net applications on the machine will terminate with an AV or DEP violation. Even those running as a different user, or as the Administrator.
Crazy, eh? Some kind of thread race condition. I've only been able to repro it in a VM so far, so I haven't ruled out a bug in the hypervisor. At the mo I'm trying to minimize my testcase and repro on some physical hardware, but I am totally limited for time - with b0rk being on such a schedule as it is I can't really just drop it and work on something else.
* distressing dream last night about a nuclear meltdown. That shit terrifies me! I'm always worried the local chemical plants will somehow explode (despite, you know, being chemical plants and having no nuclear material). I think the dream is about my subconcious warning me of a hidden danger of staying in the north east - where scenes line this are normal - and getting nothing done with life. I'm cool, though - still convinced I can make b0rk work, or make money finding holes.
* Been listening to Pain of Salvation's "Road Salt One", in preparation to go to see them live with Stu, Rebecca, and Kat. The album is definitely a grower - loving the track 'sisters', and "road salt'. I really like the vocal feel of "of dust", too - with PoS's half-pretentious lyrical feel to it. "Maybe I am just the road, dreaming, that I walk.."
* Been talking to Kim a couple times online - and she's been really friendly and nice and we've both gotten on and stuff. I'm really pleased with this! I had it in my mind that she hated me and would come and kick my ass if she ever saw me IRL (and, yes, was too scared to go to any clubs outside Hartlepool for this reason), but we seem to have made up and are carefully treating the other as an old friend. It's strange - she's managed to turn her life around, it seems, and has gotten rid of a lot of behaviours which she didn't like about herself, somehow without compromising her integrity as a person. It's really, really good to see people do this. She's one of the few people that 'got' how I used to feel when I would be so euphoric and sleep-deprived that I'd just burst in to tears and sway and do crazy-ass shit like that. She's got her own businesses going and everything - it looks like she still has all the traits I used to really like in her.
* Kat relationship is still good. We're well over the length of time that I've been with any other girl for. Talks of her moving in with me continue, but neither of us really want to share a house with my mother (not because my mother isn't wonderful, because she is).
* Found some weired .net behaviour the other day - I can execute an assembly, as a limited user, and have the following occur:
1) A managed exception thrown on the app. Normal.
2) An unmanaged exception caught by the CLR. Alarming, but I do interop with some COM so it's to be expected.
3) The CLR dying. All .net applications running as that user terminate. Bad.
4) If I'm lucky - one in five runs at a rough guess - all .net applications on the machine will terminate with an AV or DEP violation. Even those running as a different user, or as the Administrator.
Crazy, eh? Some kind of thread race condition. I've only been able to repro it in a VM so far, so I haven't ruled out a bug in the hypervisor. At the mo I'm trying to minimize my testcase and repro on some physical hardware, but I am totally limited for time - with b0rk being on such a schedule as it is I can't really just drop it and work on something else.
* distressing dream last night about a nuclear meltdown. That shit terrifies me! I'm always worried the local chemical plants will somehow explode (despite, you know, being chemical plants and having no nuclear material). I think the dream is about my subconcious warning me of a hidden danger of staying in the north east - where scenes line this are normal - and getting nothing done with life. I'm cool, though - still convinced I can make b0rk work, or make money finding holes.
* Been listening to Pain of Salvation's "Road Salt One", in preparation to go to see them live with Stu, Rebecca, and Kat. The album is definitely a grower - loving the track 'sisters', and "road salt'. I really like the vocal feel of "of dust", too - with PoS's half-pretentious lyrical feel to it. "Maybe I am just the road, dreaming, that I walk.."
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