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Brainfuck fucked my brain. It's an interesting language to program in, modeling a very simple computer really, requiring extensive thought about the underlying fabric of my computer. I use if and while a whole lot so I think it's good that I should have to think about how those constructs are implemented at the next level down. Brainfuck provides some of that insight.

The funniest bit was when I went to Dorkbot last night and was trying to tell a guy I met at the Furtherfield party about Brainfuck. He'd not heard of it, so I asked another programmer I'd met there if he'd done any Brainfuck, I said it just as the room went quiet in preparation for the next talk. "Yeah mate, I can sort you out some Brainfuck, how much do you need? Yeah wicked mate."

Other than that I've just been working really. Greg has joined the team and is getting up to speed on much of the stuff that I've been doing in the last year. That's no mean feat, and at first I overestimated Greg's ability to become productive. That's not a criticism of Greg in any way, I was way off when I thought he would be able to start producing code in the first days. So I've scaled my expectations back to something approaching normal, giving Greg space to work on a testing system in VB, which he knows, and to become familiar with the new ground.

I'm a hacker. Hacking is my raison d'etre you might say. I come from the open source community side, so it's no surprise that my view of Bill Gates has never been that rosy.

I watched Bill's presentation from CES today. I thought it was a bit dull, nothing revolutionary there, but then it is a consumer crowd, rather than technologists so that's fair enough I guess.

But as I watched something strange happened. I had been reading yesterday about the Bill and Melinda Gates' Foundation's support for the "14 big health issues." As I watched him I thought about who this super rich man was, I noticed he was wearing quite a nice shirt. Age has improved his appearance vastly. I'm a bit of a nervous presenter, so whenever I watch a smooth presentation I'm always jealous. Then I realised that I have begun to respect Bill Gates.

Shock! Horror! I have friends (who may even comment) how out of sorts this is. It's quite revolutionary. The key of course is that this respect isn't for a fellow technologist, but for a businessman.

Of course, I was a young fool to be so dogmatic and blinkered in my unkindness towards Mr Gates, but at least I'm starting to see more of the bigger picture.

Tomcat likes to cache things. I've just spent most of the afternoon trying to fix a bug which I thought was unfindable. I'd fix it ages ago, but Tomcat had remembered it, oh yes. Probably shouldn't have been using a jar file at this point. I'm sticking to classes from now on.

Maybe when I've generated some ninja cool graphics as a result of reading SOE, I'll use them to make this page look prettier. Maybe I can even replace Fireworks with some functions. Now that would be cool.

Another Jake Gylenhaal performance and another really good one, fantastic facial expressions. I really liked this film because it asked questions about time and reality and all that stuff we're used to but not in a science fiction way, but through Donnie's psychological troubles.

Wonderfully, there was almost no ending at all. My flatmate Tom saw similarities between it and Jacob's Ladder, but I'm not sure of the value of that comparison. Still, I thought it was really cool.

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