Hippo, birdie, two ewes...

...to mclain143!!! Have a great one!!

Done yesterday (20110426 Tu)

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Not a terribly eventful or productive day, but not a bad one. A good, long walk (for once), and I found and fixed a particularly stupid bug in one of the programs I'd been working on a few months ago. It was a compile-time configuration decision, to take out a feature that we weren't using at the time but that later turned out to be necessary -- by which time the original decision had been long forgotten.

I could have fixed it any time, had the coworker I've been having a hard time communicating with ever given me a coherent bug report instead of going down yet another rabbit hole of increasingly wacko work-arounds.

The really good thing about the whole episode was my success in not giving myself the label "dumb bear", the way I usually do. I did title the email I sent about it "Egg on my face", but that was a calculated gambit, in hopes of encouraging said coworker, who finally seems to be headed toward the design I've been trying for months to get him to follow. I have to talk to him tomorrow and find out what it was that finally made things click for him.

A couple of links up in the links. I'm still exploring Clothing, Sex, Safety, and Power by Laurie Toby Edison