DREWspective

At some point, you’ll have heard someone dispense the age-old “sentence solution”:

Be yourself.

I’m here today to tell you that, IMHO, “be yourself” is a very empowering statement. It’s also the most bull concept that ever existed.

And here’s why.
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[ originally posted Nov 17, 2008 @ 15:18 ]

Note: I’ve since gone back to using Bazaar on my laptop, because I really wanted local committing functionality. Unfortunately it is still awkward to use, particularly with TortoiseBzr for Windows, which sometimes mixes up its commands. My first choice for version control would now be git.

As a Windows-based developer, I was really enthusiastic about using Bazaar (BZR) for version control. At the time my SVN repository was on my home computer, and with being out of the house 13 hours a day there was no scope for making regular commits from my laptop.

Unfortunately, Bazaar’s Windows interface – TortoiseBzr – is still experimental, and DOS doesn’t make it easy to make partial commits because of its awkward copying and pasting functionality.

So even though Subversion is a centralised version control solution, I decided I wanted to go back to it – choosing to have a repository on my laptop.

It would have been simple to just export what I had so far and create a fresh branch in SVN, but I wanted to keep the 96 revisions I already had. Tags – which I began to use for version numbers – would have been useful too.

While there are tools for migrating to bzr from SVN, such as svn2bzr, there’s not much about going the other way. Actually, I had to do a lot of searching to find the tools.

The answer eventually came, in cryptic form, via someone else’s bug report. And for your convenience, here is my explanation, in plain English.
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[ originally posted Oct 29, 2008 @ 12:33 ]

I came home to even more dead fish in my fish tank. I’d lost a few fish the previous night, and I was still upset about the incident.

At first I thought the fish were being violent toward each other, which didn’t make sense – all the fish in the tank were known to be peaceful species. I did see one rainbowfish nuzzle (or even nip) at another, however.

So I began to do a water change, and I came across a disgusting bug-like creature at the bottom of the tank…
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Back in December 2007, I took what’s called an AQ test (I assume it stands for “Asperger Quotient”). The test is designed to measure the likelihood of having Asperger’s Syndrome, with a score of 32 or higher being more or less affirmative.

Almost three years ago I scored 23. I took the test again a few days ago, and scored 29.

Asperger’s Syndrome is a form of autism: a condition which affects the way people who have it relate to their surroundings. It usually results in difficulty in making friends, meeting people and being able to “read” social cues.

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