Wacky Designer Redux

They were back again today, Bright Young Coder and Sideways Notepad, discussing an upcoming enhancement to the website.

Lots of talk about the business side of things -- our Business Girl handled that side of things admirably -- I had nothing to say, if she wants green, then it's fine with me; if the contract covers privacy, then I assume Business Girl has chatted to Legal Legal Fairy Land and the t's crossed and the i's dotted. But the Geek Domain is another story, that's a tiny iota of existence where I can add a modicum of Something Beneficial. In this case, me, the Bitter Twisted One, wanted a test system so I can see The Brand New Thing working before Bright Young Coder and Sideways Notepad let it loose on the world.

"Now this test environment we've been talking about. Since we have a specification, we don't need that Test Environment anymore do we? Setting up another server is a lot of work," said Sideways Notepad.

Arrrgggh! I don't know what you think, but 60,000 a week, even in the crazy antipodean escudo barter-equivalents that form the currency system here, is a lot of tinned biscuits. Business Girl, Bright Young Coder, The Boss Who Was (more about her later) and myself manage to get Sideways Notepad to stop talking. I don't know whether he understood, but he did pique-out and draw some rather impressive doodles.

The dude can draw.

Then it was Bright Young Coder's turn, and it sounded sweet. They do their stuff and there's no change to what we provide them... or is there? Well, says Bright Young Coder, we'll let you know if there is when we get to it.

Arggggghhhhhh!!!!!!!!!

If there's one thing you (should have) learnt in Computing 101 besides never looking for potential partners in the class, or trying to build a better bong than the hardware engineering students, is when there is communcation of any sort between two or more things you need to define The Interface before anything else.

Bright Young Thing, your apprenticeship is not yet complete. Everyone needs a massive fuck up before they learn.

And you will, you will...

i walked home in the rain
with shoes soaked, toes cold

i walked home in the dark
a plasma fairy wonder glare

i walked home in a war
umbrellas surrounded me

i walked home tonight
smiling, smiling.

free.

once more with feeling

Hello, I waited here for you, everlong.

The most versatile love song I can (sort of) play. Drop-D, bash it out with exuberance, rock it up, love's the new thing;

Tonight I throw myself into

Or sing it slow, a ballad, relive the bittersweet

And out of the red, out of her head she sang

Shouting, calling names while driving in the rain. That was one of us.

And I wonder when I sing along with you
If everything could ever feel this real forever
If anything could ever be this good again

It was good, but it couldn't go on. How do you know where that happily ever after is?

Come down, and waste away with me, down with me

You tell me I'm no good for you. I start to see your point of view.

Slow how you wanted it to be I'm over my head
out of her head she sang

Why go on? There were good times, lots of them, if we meet again I hope we laugh about those.

The only thing I'll ever ask of you
You've got to promise not to stop when I say when

I forgot to ask you to promise.