Ritchie Swann

I was fiddling around with acoustic guitars yesterday and came up with this tune. I remember it from an album my dad used to have. There's four acoustic guitars except for the middle section where I went a bit trigger happy on the overdubbing....

I thought about putting it on a nospace account just because they've got an integrated player and I haven't, but it seems I created the wrong type of account, and when I tried to delete it and recreate it with the right type, I was locked out. Maybe I should have turned JavaScript on and had my mouse cursor freeze up even more.

Or maybe I should write my own player on here. Yeah, that'll be it.

I finally got round to looking at Stack Overflow this morning.

My initial thoughts - it's too busy. I went on three times yesterday afternoon and every time there were different questions, with updates less than a minute old, and thousands of views. There's no way on earth I can sift through that sort of information meaningfully.

Maybe it'll take off when popular pages on it float onto Google.

As you've probably seen on the news, Rick Wright, the only man to take on a Farfisa Compact Duo with a Binson Echorec and make it sound like it came from outer space, died yesterday evening.

:-(

Although his playing on Floyd albums was never particularly complex, it was well thought out. I still can't remember exactly what the last two chords are at the end of each verse of "Breathe", and you just can't do justice with Astronomy Domine on anything less than the aforementioned Compact Duo and Echorec. A Hammond does not cut it.

Hey ho.

He was a thoroughly likeable chap too. Shame he didn't get round to putting some more solo records out, 'cause the stuff he did put out wasn't too bad.

Most developers who are respected use at least two monitors. In fact, three monitors is becoming de facto at lots of places, so even if you're still on two, you're besides the times.

Nobody worth anybody's time gives developers a single monitor these days, and those that do are probably the places that make them wear a tie, and sit in a cubicle debugging spaghetti VB4 code all day long.

So why the frig do I still get applications that can't remember which monitor I last used the application on? I leave one monitor in an IDE, and one monitor for test. When I run an app on the test monitor and close it, I want it to come back on that monitor. It's not too hard you know.

Not supporting multiple monitors drives me nuts. Stop it. Now.

Have you ever got this message when trying to view a variable when debugging a Visual C++ project?

Error CXX0072: type information missing or unknown.

I did recently. Turns out that on a pruning exercise a while back, I accidentally deleted a bunch of ATL/MFC program databases. You don't wanna do that, as it then means the debugger hasn't got the faintest idea this bunch of bytes at this address is really this particular flavour of CString.

Since googling for CXX0072 doesn't bring up much, I thought I'd mention it here in case some other poor schmuck is stuck.