test please delete

[BrowneIssue]

This gale we have locally will probably keep me up.

[BrowneIssue]

No it won't! I'm too sleepy.

I'm off to bed.

And to everyone who drivels here before dawn.

[BrowneIssue]

Where is BI to update the stats?

Nag, nag, nag. :

[BrowneIssue]

my gf or yours ?

Coconut and mallow cream I just had

#85758





Well done!

[BrowneIssue]

Right, I'm making silly mistakes and then taking too long to debug them - I think I'm all coded out for today.

Time to wend - later, folks

What a most excellent quote. If on purpose, well done! If by accident, how fortuitous!

[BrowneIssue]

I really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, 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Do you have the inner drivel strength?

What's that then?

[NickFitz]

It makes the 8086 look well designed....

There's something that makes the 8086 look well designed?



with a



or three thrown in for good measure

One of these days, I'm going to trigger a "hasLayout" bug in Internet Explorer and trace it through the disassembly in the debugger to work out exactly how and why the IE rendering code is so badly broken... but the idea of working with this thing you describe...

At least with the 6502 one could understand why the JMP (indirect) bug came about... and it was only one chap's fault, so one could find forgiveness in one's heart.

(That JMP (indirect) bug caught me out on the BBC Micro when I was writing my first serious sprite animation routine - I'd switched into that "" mode and was just watching the assembler's listing scroll by when I noticed that the one-and-only JMP (indirect) appeared very, very close to a processor page boundary - I changed the BBC BASIC Assembler flags to page the output rather than scrolling at full speed, and thereby discovered why it only worked when I added code that was intended to trace the bug - that debug code moved the JMP (indirect) away from the processor's memory page boundary, and it thus worked correctly when I tried to debug it, but not otherwise )

BTW, did any of you know that the source code for the one-and-only-original BBC Micro-based version of Elite is available for free download? I keep meaning to read it

[NickFitz]

What a most excellent quote. If on purpose, well done! If by accident, how fortuitous!

I don't know where the quote to which you refer comes from, I'm afraid

I tend to use the word "wend" because a poet friend of mine used it in one of his works:

"We’d wend our weaving wobbly ways..."

...and now, I often say that I "shall wend my weaving, wobbling way into the night from whence I came" when departing from licensed premises where they are too used to me to get annoyed by it.

But I wasn't aware that "Time to wend" was a quotation

[NickFitz]

Oh Dear (a Registered Trademark of Microsoft Corporation, etc.)

I've started to listen to Tim Blake's New Jerusalem, and as we now approach the title track on side 2 ( yes, all of side 2) I'm beginning to wonder if I'm in a fit state to withstand the beauty

It transports one - I would say "it literally transports one", but obviously Bazza isn't going to turn up with a truck

You know what I mean... a thing of beauty is a joy forever, but a thing of such transcendental beauty can be so amazingly uplifting that one doesn't come back down again...

Ah well, I'll risk it for a Swisskit (ONO)

If I don't come back, it's because I've gone to a better place - metaphorically, that is, because obviously nowhere could be literally better than TPD

Either way, I think this is probably nighty-night, so I'll no more indulge in online congress with thou, the denizens, until tomorrow