Monday:<\/strong> Some C++11 coding, admin, reading.<\/p>\n Tuesday:<\/strong> Met with a Securawindow<\/a> rep for burglar bar quotes. Body corporate meeting, junk-food dinner guilt, reading.<\/p>\n www.mymtn.co.za pathetically useless in functionality, slow, dumb, and seems to require IE. Sucks.<\/p>\n Wednesday:<\/strong> Hello Kia Rio: took delivery of my new car!<\/p>\n So on my work computer<\/a> I have Visual Studio 2005, 2008 and 2010, and a Virtual Box instance with Visual Studio 6 (yes, really) and now 2003 as well. And we have a complicated reliance on all of them. Forget DLL hell, this is IDE hell.<\/p>\n Thursday:<\/strong> Gym: super circuit, reading.<\/p>\n Friday:<\/strong> Took my car for an insurance inspection, first literary event of the year: a talk<\/a> at the wonderful Kalk Bay Books by the Cape Town map maker Peter Slingsby with Helga, two-for-one gourmet burger special at Tribeca<\/a> bakery.<\/p>\n Note to self: Support independent bookshops more.<\/p>\n Saturday:<\/strong> Lazy day, mainly reading – finished The Angel’s Game<\/a> by Carlos Ruiz Rafon, Silvermine river walk<\/a>, watched some Walking Dead.<\/p>\n Sunday:<\/strong> Climbed<\/a> Platteklip Gorge, found it much tougher than I remember. Some family time. Noticed some unusual ground-nesting birds in my mother’s garden. Scheme language readings, early to bed.<\/p>\n Podcasts<\/a> listened to this week:<\/em> All About Android 0096; ZA Tech Show 245; Software Engineering Radio: Georg Von Krogh; Let’s Talk Geek 119;<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The week of 2013\/02\/11 – 2013\/02\/17 New car to offset work stress… Monday: Some C++11 coding, admin, reading. Tuesday: Met with a Securawindow rep for burglar bar quotes. Body corporate meeting, junk-food dinner guilt, reading. www.mymtn.co.za pathetically useless in functionality, … Continue reading ![\"wpid-20130216_143258.jpg\"](\"https:\/\/acraig.za.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/wpid-20130216_143258-180x300.jpg\")
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