Cubeville, Part II

Date: 2000-05-31 20:46:36

Got my very own cube today, complete with a Linux box named Qbert. Figured out template classes, debugged my binary search tree, wrote C++ code to parse a text file, spending most of two days doing what would take five minutes to implement in Perl. (It was useful to do it in C++, though, both for my own benefit and so it can get inserted into the codebase someday soon.) Every cube at Spatial has a huge whiteboard, which made hacking out the details for my algorithms much easier. It seems my code might get put to good use tomorrow when it does what it was intended to do: make debugging easier. Maybe I'll play with hash tables too. This should be most exciting.

The Peanut Gallery lies.

Your heart is not open so I must go
The spell has been broken...I loved you so
Freedom comes when you learn to let go
Creation comes when you learn to say no

You were my lesson I head to learn
I was your fortress you had to burn
Pain is a warning that something's wrong
I pray to God that it won't be long

There's nothing left to try
There's no place left to hide
There's no greater power that the power of good-bye

Your heart is not open so I must go
The spell has been broken...I loved you so
You were my lesson I had to learn
I was your fortress

There's nothing left to loose
There's no more heart to bruise
There's no greater power than the power of good-bye

Learn to say good-bye
I yearn to say good-bye

My contest, I now see, is unwinnable. I thought that a journal entry would clear it up, but it only vaguely referenced it without mentioning it by name. So I won't actually officially mention what the answer is or even void the contest. I might post the answer on an upcomming journal entry, so the eagle-eyed content vultures will still be able to win this one.

Right now I'm doing a moderatly ugly kludge, cutting and pasting the sql from the script that posts this locally into a terminal on Rage. Maybe I'll figure out exactly how to do it elegantly later. I would go for a few hours of coding to put together a resonabally elegant solution that'll last for the next n time units without my constant intervention.