It is rather remarkable how easy it is to procrastinate when there is boring work to be done. On the positive side at least it gives me a chance to update this thing, which as I keep promising I really should do a better job of keeping up to date...

In recent weeks I made the effort to reestablish contact with a young woman I was friends with a number of years ago. The story is long and complicated but the history is kind of pertinent to the present, so here goes... After my girlfriend at the time had gone to the UK to study I started partying quite hard with an old school friend. A friend of his, lets call him Whit, had also recently broken up with his girlfriend and as a result we often ended up going out together.

Long silences and plentiful news.
A long while since the last update. Rather than laziness I am pleading lack of time and after a week on study leave, a week on sick leave, and a few rough weekends in between I think my silence is forgivable. The study leave resulted in a Java Certification, the sick leave resulted in my getting better (finally). So all is not lost, I am back and better than I have been for a while.

The joys of Java.
I went through the considerable hassle of booking my Sun Certified Java Programmer exam today. I say considerable because, unlike various first world countries, good old SA is incapable of selling the required exam vouchers online.

Extension using object orientation.
I had the rare pleasure of adding some new functionality to an existing system. I may be slightly biased in praising the design of the system, me being the designer, but I have to say it was absolutely amazing to add the required functionality.

Bugs, dead test systems, and code reuse.

Bugs, alive and well.
It seems there are still a few bugs crawling around in the code that we deployed last week. It is not terribly surprising but still disappointing and (perhaps) a touch unprofessional. There are no excuses though, we did not test sufficiently, I think I will need to have a look at putting some formal testing procedures in place.

Another day, another entry. I wonder how long I will actually manage to keep this up... Recent events covered in this entry: the pain of breaking up, evil liquid refreshment, and the appeal of house music.

In this this exciting issue: jinxing of project deployments, the narcissism of online journals, and the confusion singleness.

I keep promising that I will start consistently making journal entries and yet I never seem to get round to doing it. Well the saying is that "there is no time like the present", so here is the start...