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Jerms - a Brief flicker and then gone again. Started conversation Nov 5, 2003
Dear god I love this language... It's the programming equivalent of cooking a meal out of popcorn. Here's a rundown of the effort I put in last night:
8pm ish: finish (plain text) draft of the entry for the SPCV.
8:30pm ish : have read through the notes in the GuideML clinic, to see how it works. Am a bit worried I'm missed something at this point, because it looks too easy.
8:45pm: It /is/ easy. Have just added two pictures, and am about to start adding links.
9pm: Have made three errors, in total, so far. Twice because I copied the numbers down wrong, and once because I missed a quotation mark. Total time wasted: about 6 seconds. Would have been 4, but I was looking at the wrong link, to find the missing quotation mark, for about two seconds.
It's taking longer for the pages to load than it does for me to note the number (eg A123456) and make a link to it. This stuff is so EASY!!
9:05: I'm swearing because I just closed the wrong window and lost everything.
9:20: Have rewritten everything. Was much quicker this time because I knew what I was doing. Still impressed.
And I'd like to point out that it took me about an hour in total to update the SPCV entry, /and/ my intro... while I had strange women trying to distract me with naked photos on MSN as well. (Which severely slowed me down, of course 
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Dear god I love popcorn code. 
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