Happy Good Friday everyone. If you haven’t yet seen Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ, you should. While not 100% historically accurate, I believe it does a good job of transporting modern audiences back two thousand years to get a glimps of what Christ endured. Much like Tim O’Brian’s The Things They Carried the point is not a perfect retelling but conveying the human, emotional happenings of what it was LIKE to go through those events.
Time Tracker(TM) Update
I decided how i wanted to code my customer/project section to reduce typing, but I’ve run into another snag in my quest to bring people wonderfully free SW… I apparently have exceeded the capacity of my PPC compiling engine. I must say, i was somewhat annoyed when i discovered that length of my program and not an error contained within it was the problem. So coding has been halted until I can find where I put the desktop compiler so that it can be reinstalled on my recently reborn computer…
Pass The Grandma Millie
My Grandmother who likes to go by her first name – Millie – is quite the cook. She has several specialites but most probably fall into either the desert catagory or the big holiday meal type catagory. One thing that doesn’t fit either of those groups is her version of chex mix. I’ll add the recipe when I can since we are working on a cookbook here, but I can’t remember it all off the top of my head…
Anyway, Grandma Millie would often make us a batch of her “chex mix” when we were going on a church retreat kinda thing. She would put it in one of those tins that all grandmothers have and it would go with us on our outing to be inevitably passed around the bus. Now when you are on a church bus sharing a snack, calling for “Grandma Millie’s Chex Mix” can be quite a mouthful. I mean your hungry and all those words are delaying the time to get your yummy snack. Also, since it wasn’t exactly chex mix, asking for it as such seemed – well – somehow inaccurate. So time and time again this yummy snack was shortened by distinct individuals to simply “Grandma Millie”.
Now this led to some rather funny situations and facial expressions from people not really up on exactly what was going on. Imagine if you happened upon a group of people casually passing around a tin of Grandma Millie…. now imagine if people started snacking out of that tin…
Meth Math
Meth is made out of Sudafed ? Nasal Decongestant (or the generic equivolent ) and some other ingreditents that don’t really pertain to this story. Anyway the people that make Meth are idiots armed with the Internet — not amateur chemists. Y you ask? The recipe to make Meth online is designed for use with a 24 pack of Sudafed… and therefore (to increase their margins) Sudafed Nasal Decongestant in the 24 pack is a HIGH theft item at drugstores around the country.
Now here is the funny part. The 48 packs (as well as the 96 packs) are NOT. The geniuses seem completely unaware that the 48 pack is the same as 2 of the 24 packs they keep stealing. No wonder they keep blowing themselves up.
Time Tracker(TM) Reaches Beta 1.0
I have been writing a small app for my PPC to simplify the tracking of my billable time for writing other SW projects and such. Well Time Tracker for the PPC is to beta 1.0… feel free to download it (though I do not offer any, express or implied warrenty on the software and you do so at your own risk and all rights are reserved copyright 2004 — lawyers.) as long as A) have a PPC – because this will not work on your home PC and B) you promise to give me some feedback.
I am planning on adding some way to select clients/projects from a list to reduce the typing necessary if switching back and forth between projects/clients but I haven’t figured out how I want to code that yet… but boy coding in a C based language again sure has deepened my appreciation of php’s ability to declare var and functions anywhere.
Oh and you’ll need the PocketC runtime if you don’t already have it:
- Pocket C Runtime for the PPC (under PocketC Software users)