Thursday March 30, 2006

Crunch time not quite over

... well, at least not yet. There are still bugs to be fixed, and there is still testing to be done. Yep, still a cog in the machine. Turning. A tiny wheel in the great military machine, and everything. Supplies to be sent, shipments to be tracked. I don't really know what's inside those containers - soldiers' uniforms? Boots and bullets? Sundry and all.

I'm only able to squeeze in just this *one* blog entry, because I'm installing that monster of an app server - IBM Websphere - on my office machine. I figure it'll take maybe half a day. Darn couple of bug reports stated that they have been observed "only on Websphere" - hence, I have to install it in order to try to reproduce the problem, before I can even attempt to try to figure out what happened, and then finally, hopefully to fix the problem. Total Commander tells me the install files weigh in at 1,158,735KB. 1024K is 1 MB, 1048576KB is 1 GB. A whole freaking GIGABYTE of files to install. But then, on the other hand, Half Life 2 / Counter-strike is even bigger than that, right? ;)

Talking about Counter-strike, haven't had the time to play that for months. Would probably, as they say, get my ass handed to me, within the first 2 minutes anyway. Reflexes not as good as before, and my machine isn't exactly a first-class gaming machine - even though it *is* an AMD64, the graphics card I have is only an old 200-dollar one, not a brand-new, smoking-fast, energy-guzzling, 800- or 1000-dollar one.

As for the reflexes part, a very nice documentary on BBC titled, simply "Time", tells me why. The long and short of it is that it's because we're getting old. According to the documentary, there actually is a human internal clock (similar to your CPU clock), and it slows down as we age. So, the world seems to be getting faster? Nope - we're getting slower. Darn.

- Looking at the darn app server install, it's only at the second of three installers. Almost lunch time - gotta get out before the hordes descend on the food courts. Tick tock. Time goes by.

Talk about slow. Just started catching up on the "new", revamped version of the Battlestar Galactica series - I'm only a couple of years late, that's all :) - compare that to just watching Blade Runner recently, well over 20 years later.

And, as for my last post on peak oil investing, over a week ago? Well, I've joined up with a small group of energy investors (wasn't a free thing though) - who are - let's put it this way - in it for the money. They *are* making a bundle. I've "only" managed a few doublings, and one tripling, amongst my portfolio of shares. *They* are talking 1400%, 1200% and some such stratospheric numbers. Whoa. Much to learn, I have.

- Lunch time - hordes arriving soon. Got to go. Tick tock.

(2006-03-30 11:37:23 SGT) [Musings] Permalink Comments [1]

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