Notes for July 13-19

Finally, a relatively quiet and very productive week at work, by the simple dint of many people going to an annual event in the US and thus being unavailable to annoyhelp me. Seriously now, it was pretty OK even if my back has been troubling me again, which I tried to counter with daily outings to run errands and “run” about. Carrying loads is not a problem, so even relatively prosaic affairs like leaving the house right after stand-ups (while it’s still cool), trotting over to the market and carrying back a dozen milk cartons are quite welcome. Sitting around in lengthy meetings, however, is not, nor is doing slow, gratingly ineffective agile rituals to appease the backlog gods as a group… But I digress. As far as my personal endeavours go, this was another oddly fragmented week, but somewhat productive: I bounced between embedded hardware, classic Mac emulation, agent infrastructure and an unexpectedly deep investigation into the ongoing mess with Portugal’s national-exam platform.…