found this at CodeWarriorU.com "The Introduction to C++ Programming course is designed for both beginner and experienced programmers."

for the beginnier it's an intro; otherwise i'd guess that it's designed to be a sedative...

quote from alison, at bluishorange.com:




conversation had with myself while making my parents' bed:


"hmm, this striped bottom sheet thing looks kind of square.  i wonder which way it goes."


"the stripes should be vertical.  vertical stripes are slimming."


"yeah, but on a bed.  wouldn't you want your bed to look bigger?"


"you'd think that, wouldn't you?"

Jesus of the Week 2001 "Jesus is coming. Look busy."

gm.  this is the earliest oob since i quit my job.  laid in bed listening to the 80's; journey, styx, queen (winamp auto-starts at 8:30am), then crawled out, started coffee, folded futon, and judi called.  "change of plans, stay in bed," she said. 

"rrrrph, ihg nooo ate," said i. 

"WHAT?" 

then i started up the tractor which i have been keeping in the back of my throat for the past couple weeks, and dredged a path of intelligibility through the night's accumulation.  then i said, again, "well, dear, that's nice, but it's too late now.  i am up and about." 

also, the second time, i moved my lips. 

well, let's see if i can come up with any more inane crap to post... 

tweaked the blogvoices 'flag' script for the last time—i hope.  i should just pretend it's cool, but it's not.  all it does is switch from blogvoices' dynamically-generated javascript source (during BV's server-overload time period) to a 'dead' copy of bv.js on my server.  the script doesn't even know whether bv is slow or not—it just switches during whatever time i programmed it to (from 2pm - 9pm, i think.  i don't even remember.)  making it actively watch 24-7 for a delay and then automatically switch to an archived—or better yet, preloaded—version (ooo, there's an idea); that might be cool. 

no matter, though, because my server is not much faster than blogvoices' server lately, ever since the goldbrickers at XO communications bought my domain host, concentricnet.  i used to have a ping (at burgwinkel.com) in the 80's.  today it was 414!  i know that i know very little about network protocols, but the increase in ping rate seems to coincide with a newly sluggish page loading rate from my site, independant of any slowdown by blogvoices.  not to mention all the ftp and telnet disasters they (at XO) have been creating...

enough.  i must ...ohhhmmmmmmmmm... relax, and focus my mind on peaceful ...ohhhmmmmmmmmm... things, and prepare my body to slip off ...ohhhmmmmmmmmm... into the netherworld that follows after ...ohhhmmmmmmmmm... one finally comes to the complete acceptance ...ohhhmmmmmmmmm... that another totally wasted day is over.   ;)

besides, i'm getting heartburn.