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a farm on the Great Plains
Friday, March 15 2002
After another big day of suffering at the hands of my self-inflicted crash course in Flash, I managed to successfully cook dinner for Gretchen and me. The meal was comprised largely of a species of pasta which resembled telephone cords (for any of you old enough to remember the days when telephones came with cords).
Meanwhile Sally's left ear, assailed in a freak attack by Noah the cat yesterday, continued causing her discomfort today. I examined it and found a swelling about the size and shape of a pen cap near the outer edge, so I treated it with compresses of hot water until a dark substance began oozing out. Sally wasn't pleased with these treatments at first, but when she began noticing results, she held still while I continued my treatments.
Work on the Flash chat continued nearly all day, to the neglect of people, passions, playthings, and pets. I eventually abandoned the problematic method of data transmission I'd been using and redid all the backend to frontend APIs using XML. After making a few timing tweaks and reworking some of the logic, the damn thing actually lurched to life and started working correctly, without crashing browser windows, servers, and the like. I did notice, however, that its behavior was strangely different in various environments. A Flash player in Opera doesn't behave exactly like a Flash player in Netscape or Internet Explorer. They all cache and crash differently, and as far as I can tell no one has written anything about these differences anywhere on the web. Trying to do serious programming in this environment is a little like starting up a farm on the Great Plains back in 1840.
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