The Lair

It’s been a while since my last post. Oh dear. I’m reduced to playing a cameo of Captain Obvious here because I can’t think of a better way to lead in to this post. But unfortunately, work has been slightly hectic, mostly because I wanted to keep roughly to my self imposed deadlines. And work at the pace which I was doing it for most of this week means not much time for anything else.

But, I’ve read Shadow of the Giant now. The book, the last of the quartet, took great care to leave some plot threads dangling. Evil. No indication of what happened to the three kids and Bean; or if a cure for Anton’s key was discovered later. No news of what happened to the rest of Ender’s Jeesh and where they ultimately ended up. And most importantly, no inkling of where Randi and the ninth kid escaped to and what became of them. Obviously, they were never heard of in the lifetime of Peter Wiggin or the last chapter would have made some mention of it. And a few continuity errors here and there but these were pretty minor. Overall, a good way for the series to end, but I wonder if OSC might not consider a new quartet of books a little later on.

In other news… well, I’ve discovered how little I know about scriptable objects and the DOM when I tried to make a few client side hacks recently. Things really have progressed far beyond the times when I last worked with Javascript seriously. Unfortunately, the lack of a good reference, and more importantly the lack of a good editor is driving me insane. I never did realize how much having a consistent editing environment actually helps. So, what I’m really trying to say is that I’ve gotten used to the crutches of brace and parenthesis matching and dropdown lists of properties and methods to help me along. And sans those aids, my programming prowess has reduced itself to a childlike scrawl. Well, at least till I come to grips with the most frequently used properties anyway.

Also trying to get some time to do the oft promised but never accomplished tweaks to the template here. Might have to wait for the weekend for that.