My movie has been in the development for a while. It started around Christmas, but took a long while to get all 3 voice-over tracks recorded, edited and aligned to subtitles. In addition, the Movies game - which is what I used - has infuriating habits of losing the subtitle and sound track locations around if one wants to redo a scene or recut the sequence. And the camera work could have been more flexible.

Michael Baum quotes my feedback on his survey article, but completely misses that we actually want the same thing. We just approach it from different angles. To get to the (misunderstood) point: The notion that IT people need even more data generated by developers kinda misses the point. Troubleshooting production applications is a whole lot different that debugging code in development or staging environments. Production systems involve many technologies and systems that just don’t appear in pre-production environments.

Gmail is usually pretty good about spam filtering. But not at the moment. As of the last 2 or 3 days, the spam I know it caught before is now ending up in my mailbox. And I think I know why. The same thing happened over Christmas. Suddenly all the spam appeared in my inbox. I had a theory then and it seems to be confirmed now. I think Gmail team drops their filtering level around big celebrations (Valentine’s day is coming up).

I am sitting for the part one of the RSCDS’ preliminary teaching certificate. The part one is mostly theory and history, so involves a good lot of memorisation, with the hope that memorised facts will aid later deep comprehension. I am using flashcards to help me remember the facts. I have free software installed on my computer (Pauker) for the best results, but I also have an online copy to quickly practice at work.