Zzot!

For the time being, this project has lame version numbers. If enough versions ever get created to make this a problem, I’ll change that. For now, they’re just sequential. I’ve only tested this on my Nokia 6600, and have little intent if any to make corrections for other handsets which I don’t own. Your mileage may vary.

Here are the things I already know are broken with this:

• One of the two tabs variations has a stray blue line
• The grayed out bar at the bottom (behind left- and right-button text) is the wrong height by a couple of pixels.
• In one of the modes, that same bar is grayed out twice, which doesn’t just look odd on its own, it’s made worse by the preceding item.
• The above not withstanding, just the tabs, status bar at the top (where the date is displayed) and the signal and battery indicators have been done — everything else is still blue, and looks slightly out of place.

Out of little more than idle curiosity, let me know if you actually use this.

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Today at work, I was waiting to tell someone who was waiting on a feature that it was in the latest build. While I was waiting for a phone call to end, another person appeared needing to mumble something at the same person. Since I was still working on the “goat” project (and still tired of it) I quoted another sad line floating around in my head:

Welcome now my friends to the project that never ends…

He confirmed that I still need some sleep (and by some strange coincidence is the son of the person who said that about the goat missive). About two hours later, I made his day by prying the strangest computer problem in the building plaque off his door and nailing it to my own.¹ There was much rejoicing (by him anyway).

1. I’ll admit that we don’t actually have such a plaque, but if anyone there reads my blog, we will have one. Tomorrow. Morning. [↩]

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A few weeks ago, I was off on a business trip. It’s hard to summarize what all needed doing, but suffice it to say there was plenty. Much of it was stuff that worked in our lab but not on site. We knew there would be some of that sort of breakage, so our crew included quite an assortment of skills. I mostly provided my own skills at the beginning of the week, and moved onto questionable areas¹ for the rest of the week.

So, on Wednesday or Thursday morning — who can remember which — we were on the way to a nearby Radio Shack for some parts. We were seeing a strange DC bias on one of the lines coming from a component we couldn’t really do much about, so we went looking for some resistors. But that’s beside the point.

On the way there, I shared this with everyone:

I can’t stop thinking that there’s some number n, where if we can sneak
that number of goats into the building without anyone figuring out that it’s
our fault, all our problems go away.

The first response was something along the lines of “you really need some sleep.” I did not dispute that assertion. The second was “is that African or European goats?” Naturally, if makes a difference what sort of goats you use, you don’t have enough of them. Duh.

The guy at Radio Shack didn’t seem surprised that the first item on our shopping list was “2 goats.” They must get a lot of sleep-deprived customers right when they open.

1. Questionable in that I wasn’t really an expert at solving those problems, just familiar with them. Hey, there was a lot of work to do. [↩]

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