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Fri 2004-11-05 12:02
Paranoia in the office

I was just standing in the office loo, washing my hands, and suddenly a device attached to the wall puffed a jet of unspecified vapour into the air, with no apparent provocation.

I can only assume that it's some sort of new automatic air freshening device, and that it squirts out a jet of sweet-smelling stuff at regular intervals during the day.

But to understand my initial reaction to this incident, you have to be aware that I've been off work with a cold for two days this week, and I mostly spent those two days lying on the sofa watching James Bond movies. In that state of mind it's deeply unsettling when an innocuous-looking device produces an unexpected jet of gas. I found myself half expecting to be knocked unconscious and wake up to see Blofeld…

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Fri 2004-11-05 13:56

It's an odd kind of feeling to actually achieve one of your personal Holy Grails.

This week, in among being ill, working and so on, I managed to find time to write a piece of code that solves a problem I've been wanting to see solved since 1994.

mutant zombie B-tree on steroids )
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