Scary cold

I use a weather reporting applet on my desktop - For my non-geek friends, it's a little tool that checks with the servers at the airport to get current weather, temperature, and some other stuff. There's an annoying bug in it where if it can't get the information for whatever reason, it reports as -17°C. It took me a month or two to figure out that this is 0°F.

Anyhow, the point of this, is that my computer routinely tells me that it's -17° out, and I've kinda gotten used to assuming that it's quite a bit warmer. I've had to change my attitude in this weather, where -17° would be a nice change. Dressing "warm" isn't enough, and it's starting to get cold in my boots that are rated for -20. My mom had a story she told us when we were little: She lived in Winnipeg, and licked her boyfriends glasses. The ice froze on them, basically blinding him. (She really was much nicer than this story portrays her) I had always laughed and assumed she was kidding or something. But no, today the condensation from my breathing was causing my eyelashes to freeze together when I blinked.

I guess it's a mother's right to say "I told you so."

On the hacking front, not a big day today. Some catchup from being away from work yesterday, and I also took a look at pysnmp. This looks like it'll be a good basis for the rewrite of GNU Radar into Python. I love C++ dearly, but the compile time of Radar was over a minute per compilation unit. Change a headerfile, go for lunch. Tomorrow I'll pick the ORB I want to work with, and I'll quickly rewrite most of what's in CVS. After that, hopefully I can get to some interesting features.