Published 2004-01-03 14:07:32

Well, a belated New Year update to the blog, So it's more a summary of latest goings on.

Duncan & our Mono chat.

Duncan Mak, a good friend who works alot on Mono, came back to HK for his Christmas break, We had a good chat, given the fact I had to look after my two little monsters at the same time. Mono seems to be moving on really well, I did get a chance to discuss why I think Sterling and Thies idea of targeting Parrot was probably more sensible than .NET. - Basically for all the arguments about stack/register, the real problem comes down to the fact that when writing a opcode compiled language, it is essential to have the knowledge that you have some chance of adding Opcodes (as the ZE2 is now designed to do). The problem which is rather difficult to solve, is the fact that .NET has a specification, and at least 3 implementations. which makes adding opcodes, or native types very difficult. Where as although still complex, it is a matter of persuasion and tact, when you consider this for Parrot.

Marching for Democracy

If no-one noticed (like it was all over google news), Hong Kong had another huge March for Democracy on Jan 1st, I went down, and did the 2 hour walk. Although I failed to persuade my better half to join me 'Why should I sacrifice my holiday for this?', which is pretty fair considering how hard she has to work, just so we can survive. But I guess is also indicative of alot of people. The cause is good, they may agree with the motives, but when you get so little free time, it's a hard sell to get involved in improving Hong Kong (or just getting rid of incompetent rulers)

Looking after Kids.

Our helper went away for the holidays, leaving me to look after the kids, while it wasnt too bad, they are normally very helpfull around the house. (considering that they think doing the washing up is fun...). It was pretty devistating to any work that I needed to do. I just scraped enough time to finish the slides for the php cruise in march. But got well behind on email.

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