![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Comments from a Madman
Jun. 23rd, 2007 12:02 amFeeling much better today, thank you. This is for two reasons:
Yesterday I was awarded a Featured position at SheezyArt, a site feature that I didn't know existed until someone pointed it out to me, and I was constantly refreshing my page at work to watch an avalanche of messages come in (and this just after I'd given up on getting listeners there). I'm trying to leave comments back as I think it's the polite thing to do, but they're coming in faster than I can think up different ways to say "Thanks for the favourite". The next time someone says I should form a real band, I may snap and actually do it.
And today, the first article on Worse Than Failure to make me laugh out loud at work was posted. Rather than direct people there and risk them being fatally injured from the discharge as the high-voltage overinflated egos scrape against each other, I thought I would reproduce it here. Now, amazingly enough, there may be people who read this who just can't find Java source code amusing, so I've improved it a bit by highlighting the comment lines (if the background of your page is blue you're out of luck). Think of it as like winding through Denis Norden on Alright on the Night to get to the funny bits.
Don't be scared by the code if you don't understand it (actually, if do understand it you're in danger of working with this man so you should probably be very scared indeed) - the best bit are the schizophrenic notes he leaves himself that signal a confident cruise into complete madness.
( This is hysterical, I promise )
I haven't encountered anything quite as glorious as that lot in my work, but there was one that came pretty close. You'll have seen a couple of "catch {}" blocks in the code above, which are meant to be used for deciding what to do if an error occurs and hopefully recovering from it. Instead, the entire contents of one of the catch blocks in our system reads "// Oh well".
Yesterday I was awarded a Featured position at SheezyArt, a site feature that I didn't know existed until someone pointed it out to me, and I was constantly refreshing my page at work to watch an avalanche of messages come in (and this just after I'd given up on getting listeners there). I'm trying to leave comments back as I think it's the polite thing to do, but they're coming in faster than I can think up different ways to say "Thanks for the favourite". The next time someone says I should form a real band, I may snap and actually do it.
And today, the first article on Worse Than Failure to make me laugh out loud at work was posted. Rather than direct people there and risk them being fatally injured from the discharge as the high-voltage overinflated egos scrape against each other, I thought I would reproduce it here. Now, amazingly enough, there may be people who read this who just can't find Java source code amusing, so I've improved it a bit by highlighting the comment lines (if the background of your page is blue you're out of luck). Think of it as like winding through Denis Norden on Alright on the Night to get to the funny bits.
Don't be scared by the code if you don't understand it (actually, if do understand it you're in danger of working with this man so you should probably be very scared indeed) - the best bit are the schizophrenic notes he leaves himself that signal a confident cruise into complete madness.
( This is hysterical, I promise )
I haven't encountered anything quite as glorious as that lot in my work, but there was one that came pretty close. You'll have seen a couple of "catch {}" blocks in the code above, which are meant to be used for deciding what to do if an error occurs and hopefully recovering from it. Instead, the entire contents of one of the catch blocks in our system reads "// Oh well".
