Have taken tomorrow as annual leave to, hopefully, mitigate the RSI. What will I do for three days without a keyboard?

Oh my. I haven't posted an entry since Feb. This fixes that.

As of today Gem and I have been together for nine years!

I have a bag of mixed flavours of green tea. Some of them were infused with mint.
Now they are all infused with mint.

I saw some exceptions due to a file using U+FF20 (FULLWIDTH COMMERCIAL AT) rather than U+0040 (COMMERCIAL AT).

This gives ＠ rather than @.

java.io.CharConversionException: Failed to encode the character '＠' (U+FF20)

You learn something new every day :(

I keep touching this and it falls from my hands like beauty...

Working on an Intel AMT asset object database. In my class schema I am adding elements and working out the one-to-many mappings.
Machines have processors and disks but do they have memories?

I have been reading a collection of papers regarding HCI and visual design. One used the term 'ubichi' extensively for ubiquitous computer human interaction. It is my favourite word of the day and I really need to find a context to use it in.

We are experimenting with Intel AMT for asset tracking. I started writing the code and was trying to think what to call it. jAMT seemed a good start but was lacking something. So current test program output looks like...


jAMhoT : status of Intel AMT capable computers

"tank fly boss walk java nitty gritty you're running the code from the big bad city, this is jAMhoT, this is jAMhoT"

SOAP : JAX-WS RI 2.1.3.1-hudson-749-SNAPSHOT: Stub for http://[obscured]:16992/
System power state = 0


:)