Tuesday, April 24, 2007

War Against Procrastination... that fails rather tragically

This morning when I finally dragged myself out of bed (I was coding/making sure the code's working until 12... more on that later.), I've decided that enough is enough: if I could do that much work in St Louis, I should be able to do more back here. So I've decided to set my alarm on my phone to 12:30, and before then there will be no slashdot, no fark, no bash.org, and no Cyanide and Happiness either. In fact: I'll be doing nothing but work until the phone tells me to stop, and then I'll have my lunch (without watching Dr Phil...), hang the washing out, hopefully bring the washing in, maybe slashdot a little, until 1:30, when work shall start again, and will be work until 3:30 for another break... and then work until Petey's home.

Sounded like a brilliant idea, and my laptop was quiet this morning so that must mean it's processed the data I put through last night, right?

Well was I horribly wrong: the data that I suspect would take a good 10 hour to process stopped after the first friggin file (out of about 20 files) because the very last line on my code that actually saves the results into a file has a bug in it. I DID actually fix it, but at 12 at night I accidentally deleted it because that seems to be the things to do.

Never, NEVER, code while tired...

I shall spend today weeping and writing labs for young'ns instead...

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