June 24, 2002

• I’ve been trying to fix a bug in a program I’m working on. It’s a horribly elusive one, for a number of reasons, the most significant of which is that it exists on a hardware platform other than the one I use for development. Another being that the API it uses returns an undocumented error code.
  
  “What does that mean… IN ENGLISH?” you ask.
  
  It means I’m building a ship-in-a-bottle in a bottle, instead of the kind you collapse, insert in the bottle, and then uncollapse. Furthermore, the neck of the bottle can’t be trusted to lead to the space contained inside the rest of the bottle, if you get what I mean, and if I don’t sound too metaphysical there.
  
  And to top it all off, I shouldn’t be doing this. I should be getting ready to travel for three weeks. I want to get this code out the door, but there’s just no time. The world will have to wait, and so will I. Maybe I’ll have a few idle moments during the trip… Hah.

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