Operating at 3,000 miles

Obviously, Bonnie's computer decided join in with my computer's ritual suicide, so today I've been re-installing Bonnie's laptop by showing her how to do it via MSN and GnomeMeeting. Hopefully, this isn't going to a recurring problem, as it takes a lot out of Bonnie and myself. At the same time, I managed to come up with an answer for Comp 142's first homework (and Java's new regex classes make the solution much easier...). I've had a brief look at the BSD sockets; they look quite nice in Python, and unbelievably ugly in C. And guess what language I have to use? That's one of the nasty problems in teaching CS - most of the time, your students are going to have more problems getting their low-level code working than actually working on the problem you've given them. I don't really want to spend my time trying to hunt down a obscure malloc bug when I could be working on something more interesting...
currently playing: Manic Street Preachers - (4)Motorcycle Emptiness
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