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Were ‘Atomic Kitten’ really about interlocking young cats?

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So spent most of the day working on a lock free ring buffer. Code that I actually wrote years ago, but now converted to iOS / Android. Now lock free things depend on atomics, iOS not so much an issue, Android on the other hand doesn’t really do atomics and as for 64 bit atomics forget it. So that was an interesting one to solve but got there in the end. Didn’t really do much else.

Watched a good film last night “The Hunger Games”, ok so I’ve read the book and enjoyed it, but the film was a pretty good representation.

Walked the dog. Did a home check right by the gym for a lovely lady and a lovely existing dog. As it was right next to the gym I had no excuse really not to go although I said I wouldn’t. So ran for an hour and one minute. Now have sores under my arms where they were rubbing against my vest. War wounds.

Come back, ate salad. I was going to watch the new Red Dwarf, but due to a timing clash it won’t be ready until later. It’s torture porn night, so got a film ready.

Jamie’s birthday tomorrow, no presents, no card, welcome to your future, it’s all down hill from now on.

Solved the cleaning situation, dog friendly cleaner starts Monday. Nothing wrong with the old cleaner except she seems to be working all hours and I can’t really blame her for avoiding my bathroom. I have no idea where those brown stains come from.

In laws down tomorrow. Deep breaths. Could be worse, could be my mother. Taking old mattress down tip. Going to cinema. Eating out. At least I get the chance to give a restaurant an appalling review, although this one is usually pretty good.

Cushions on wooden seats, no

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Watched this last night, very good “The Cabin In The Woods”

I’ve been offered some orange cushions for my wooden chairs from the mother in law, it’s a nice gesture. Now, there are two things that irritate me in life (actually there are about 470), one is people who wear socks with sandals, the other is cushions tied on to wooden chairs. I blame my Aunty, she used to made gravy with OXO cubes. She had wooden chairs with cushions tied to them, for some reason always hated the bloody things, that hasn’t changed now. I want to encourage piles.

So spent the morning battling with iOS to save out ID3 tags to IMA/M4A files. After some irritating fun with mutable dictionaries I got it going. Added a couple of other iOS specific things for speaker routing. Ordered Jamie’s birthday presents, joys of internet. Put an add for a cleaner on myhammer. Walked the dog. Went to the gym and ran for an hour.

pfSense needed rebooting, first time in thirty days. The web interface ground to a halt after WAN 1 went down. That’s thirty days without me moaning about it. Now it seems to be working fine but accessing the hard drive a bit excessively. Need to keep an eye on it.

Now watching bollocks television. May go for a film, I fancy some cake.

It’s Tuesday and I’m not at the gym

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Ok, so woke up today feeling considerably better than I went to bed last night, so must have had some chill or something. Been fine today. Working on ID3 tags in audio files and LIST in wav files. Oh the excitement. Anyway, got it all working in the end, now need to replicate the same on iOS. Fixed up all the latest on iOS anyway, so ready to give it a blast now.

Took the dog for a walk, weather held out, it was quite a nice afternoon. Did more work. Still no cleaner, I’ve phoned round a couple now need to ‘interview’ them. Updated WordPress, updated the torture porn blog. Drinking Smirnoff Ice…what’s this. Well I’ve decided that spending five nights in the gym is now being perhaps somewhat excessive and it means I get very little time to do anything else. I’m accelerating towards death at an alarming rate, but I don’t need a six pack to enter hell. So for the time being I’ve decided not to go on Tuesday’s and Thursday’s and do something more (or less) interesting instead. May be read a book once in a while, or talk to the husband (no, may be not). Anyway this evening will be taken up by watching tele, then hopefully in the morning my legs won’t absolutely kill.

Don’t feel right today, may be it’s because I’m up to my knees in dog hair

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Didn’t feel great this morning, put it down to being a Monday. But been feeling a bit heady all day, probably need some wine and some cheese. Been working on SDK updates and mobile stuff. Fairly quiet. Did make it to the gym and did combat which was fun and woke me up a bit. But now feel bad again. Think I need some shite TV and some salad.

Tomorrow I need to find a new cleaner as it’s getting silly now.

It was like being on holiday again

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Why, because of the fine weather and fit boys? No, because we didn’t get up until after lunch time. Anyway, got up in the end, walked the dog. Came back and did the poo run and collected the fallen apples. Had lunch, two boiled eggs. Then cut up part of a bush that’s been sitting out side for too long and stuck it in the green bin together with some excess soil from the hedge removal. Folded up the old mattress and stuck it in the garage ready to be taken to the tip on Friday. Then spent two hour hoovering. Kept asking Jamie to change the bed, he ignored me. I changed the bed. Edited a few more honeymoon photos. Now feeling quite tired, so bath and wine time me thinks.

There’s going to be a phal smell in here

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So, busy day. Started off going to Tesco’s meeting up with Sarah as she wanted a couple of laptops for the boys for Christmas. They only had one in Bradley Stoke so had to tootle off down to grotty Eastvile and get the other one. Then did the shopping, pretty uneventful, I bought some printer paper, see, uneventful.

Came home, put the shopping away and had toast. Then made arrangements to go and do a couple of home checks, one in Southmead the other in Henleaze. So went and did those two, then parked up in Cotham and walked into town, just in time for the shops to close, although HMV was still open, I don’t think I’ve ever seen it closed. Picked up some new torture porn.

Went and visited mother, she’s losing her memory, but could still remeber the words to ‘Lord is my shepard’, I did remind her that she didn’t really need to know the words for the occasion it would be used at. She made fruit cake, I approve, she makes nice fruit cake.

Jamie is out fapping with blue people. So I did the accounts, about to have a shower and then will cook my tea. Which tonight consists of chicken, in a Phal curry sauce, with onion, peppers and extra chilli’s. It will be interesting and possibly quite terrifying. Tomorrow may very will be a painful day.

Ended up watching quite an unusual film tonight, check out my review “Closed circuit extreme”

Had a bit of a bad head this morning, I blame the cheese rolls

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Started off on this damn iOS6 iPhone5 crash again after I helped out with a PS3 render crash. Didn’t get any further on iPhone5 even after loading debug symbols it still all looked bollocks. Spent the bulk of the rest of the day helping out the render team (both of them, actually they’ve just added a third but I haven’t spoken to him yet). Finally got to do some of my own work about eight thirty this evening.

So did work, went to gym and did body pump, I was supposed to do some running afterwards, but quite frankly I just couldn’t be arsed. It’s my big old fattening pizza tonight so I should have done the extra, but my legs hurt, my shoulder hurts and I’m feeling quite tired, so looking forward to a bath, phoning my mother (not really looking forward to that bit) eating pizza and falling asleep in front of the TV.

Need to get up fairly early tomorrow (well early tomorrow) as Sarah wants to pick up a couple of bits in Tesco with me. I’ve also two home checks to fit in somewhere, plus I want to get some gardening in this weekend and loads of other stuff.

Last nights film was good, my opinions here “The last house on the left”

So anyway, bath time, and yes, I’ve already poured the wine.

Well at least it’s stopped raining

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Oddly last night I went to fill in my paper diary. I guess I will archive it at the end of the year as usual, move the last year into an envelope never to be read again.

So today worked a bit on iOS again, still seem to have an odd crashing problem on iPhone5, which is fine other than I don’t have an iPhone5 so just have to keep guessing, but looks like some sort of logging thing causing a string to malloc badly. Anyway, I’ll work through it, no immediate hurry it seems. Then it was back onto the audio lib, where I did manage to implement what I wanted, so got that out the way. Only a few bits to do now and it’s completely finished.

Here’s one slightly odd thing, since I’ve been keeping this blog either my spelling has improved or my vocabulary has dropped to about fifty words that I know how to spell. It used to be no end of red underlined words, at the moment the going is pretty good, the only thing under lined is ‘iPhone5’ and ‘malloc’, now those are added to the dictionary not a red line in sight.

Took dog for a walk. Went to gym, admired where bus had hit the bridge right outside the turning for the gym.

Bus hits Gypsy Patch Lane railway bridge

Ran. Enjoyed pikeys unable to start their tar-mac van in car park. Came home. About to play with dog, then eat Salad. It’s torture porn night tonight, so glass of wine and a bad film.

Any more rain and I’ll need an Ark

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Can’t really rant about anything today. It rained a lot, that was about it. Everything else was dull, but went pretty much according to plan. Did some audio lib work, after a lot of careful thinking I decided to keep software audio mixing app side as it’s just so flexible you could end up with a ton of code that doesn’t do want you want, so just added hooks so you could do you’re own streaming to a buffer. I want to add some more complex samples to it, but for the moment it work’s just fine. Also I think I’ll use the same system for close linking as it’s just to awkward any other way.

Then came across a fun issue with crashing on iPhone’s running iOS6. There appears to be a bug in the new OS, if your app is locked to landscape mode and an on screen pop-up requires portrait it just crashes. Thankfully Apple have produce a workaround, so that should be the end of that.

Installed VMWare again, and installed a copy of XP Professional. It’s a genuine bought disc which ran on a machine which died many moons ago, but it wouldn’t go through the ‘Windows Genuine Advantage’ thing, found a useful tool called ‘muBlinder’ that appears to work fine. I don’t mind Microsoft adding these checks, but when you do have a genuine original disc, it does piss me off a bit. It’s now busy installing about 4 million service packs, before I can do what I want with it anyway.

One bit of amusement in the gym, heard the faint Pikey accent, thought no, I won’t drop to stereotypes, until one of them then said “I’ve got a great job on on Sunday, 100M of tarmac”, a grin appeared across my face as I put my back in a locker.

So, gym done, not so long tonight, will do a longer one tomorrow night, now a few more service packs and salad and bed. And no, I still haven’t finished the Singapore GP.

Did watch a pretty good film in bed though, you can read my thoughts on my other blog “The Torture Porn Movie Blog”

Darwin had the right idea

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Today I started doing battle with iOS and XCode again, thankfully my colleague knew what the problem was so managed to produce test flight builds again, although I can’t add any new devices without cocking the whole key chain thing up, so I’ll avoid that if possible.

Then it was on to some PS3 work, well an SDK update, which basically means lots of downloading, building installers and hanging around for compiles, it’s a pretty brain dead activity, but I was having a pretty brain dead kind of day.

Met ugly fat bitch with abusive husband again while out walking dog (this time without husband, as he was probably back inside due to his asbo). By god she’s got a gob like a fog horn, this time her dog was off attacking someone else’s while her teenage daughter was stood in the middle of the path blocking it’s entirety with her hips while texting. There must be something to be said about removing these peoples benefits and then praying for a harsh winter, natural selection can then do it’s thing. Mind you there would then be certain parts of the country like ghost towns.

Cleaner hasn’t turned up in ages, I’m now up to me knees in dog hair. Jamie refuses to put anything into dishwasher or wash anything. He thinks if he just leaves stuff out it will magically be put away. It won’t. I can go all week with one cup, one knife and one t-shirt, so I’ll always win that battle.

Here’s my trip adviser review of the WOW Bodrum Resort

Went to gym, ran, unexciting. Played with dog. Now it’s time for salad and the Singapore GP (Yes, I’m still getting through it). Then I must carry on with that rather gruesome film I was watching in bed, and I don’t mean Jamie sleeping.