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December 21, 2004

Misc. & Etc.

--Hard to believe there's a snowstorm on the way. Right now it's sunny & 48 degrees. But my joints (and the forecast) say that's going to change in the next 12 hrs.

--Like a lot of folks, we did some of our Christmas shopping online this year. One gift arrived last week; two more are in transit for delivery this week. Assuming the snow doesn't get too deep. I always feel sorry for the postal & delivery guys in bad weather. That can't be fun this time of year.

--I've been looking for airline tickets for the end of the month, and stupid Yahoo Travel (and another site I can't remember) refused to let me search for flights leaving in December. At all. Why? Because it won't let you book flights for December 2005, which it assumes any December flight is.

Mike heard me swearing at the computer and asked what was wrong. "Someone wrote the date validation code so that it would automatically block any searches for a December flight date instead of checking first to see if the December date was in 2004 or 2005" I said through gritted teeth. "They did it that way because it's easier than doing it the correct way, which would be to first check today's date & see if it's before or after December 31, 2004, then if it was before, check to see if the flight date requested was in December, 2004 or December, 2005. That's just freaking lazy."

Ack! I'm starting to think like a programmer.

Like my brain needs to be any more warped.

Posted by Rita at December 21, 2004 11:28 AM

Comments

No! Not a *gasp* programmer! [drawl] They're not looked upon too kindly 'round these here SysAdmin parts. [/drawl] [spit]

;)

Posted by: Bob at December 21, 2004 12:59 PM

You know, my comment was funnier when the it showed the drawl, /drawl, and spit tags.

Posted by: Bob at December 21, 2004 01:00 PM

A lawyer and a programmer in the same body. Scary shit, that.

Posted by: Jim - PRS at December 21, 2004 07:26 PM

Preview is our friend, isn't it Bob? Use [ ] instead of < > and they'll show up. See, programmers can come in handy sometimes. ; )

Everybody keeps saying that Jim, but so far I can't see that there's a dime's worth of difference between a good 'book' lawyer and a good programmer. Same logic, same focus on minutiae and detail. They just use a different language.

Posted by: rita at December 22, 2004 06:23 AM