Fifa World Cup 2006 Fever
I'm Australian and I support the Socceroos.
I don't support Harry Kewell though. And apparently neither does the rest of the Australian football team. In Australia vs Brazil which was televised yesterday morning from 2:30 am, Brazil scored a resounding 2 goals against Australia. How many did Australia get you say? Nil, 0, zilch, nada.
Now other people place the blame squarely on Kewell's shoulders. There were certain chances and open goals which he could have rightly taken. Like when the goalie went out of the goal to catch the ball, only to let it drop, giving Kewell a wide open goal... but like all the other attempts to score that night, it failed miserably. As they say though, there is no I in team and so Kewell cannot be relied upon to do the job of the rest of his team, at least the rest of the strikers.
He needs support from other team members to score that elusive goal. He's great at passing but he's not a leader, the goal visionary that the team needs him to be. He passes really well, but really, who is he passing to?
Public transport blues
I'm a nice person... really. Some of the blog entries may persuade you to think otherwise, but you can ask everyone I know and they'll tell you the same thing... most times ;)
I'm also one of those people who can be a little bit righteous.
The Sydney public buses have rows of 2-person seats going down the length of the bus, 1 window seat and 1 aisle seat. Lately I've noticed that a lot of people are doing one of the following:
- sitting on the aisle seat and placing bags on the window seat
- sitting on the aisle seat and leaving the window seat empty
- sitting on the window seat and placing bags on the aisle seat
Now there are usually logical explanations for points 1 and 2 - the person may be getting off at the next stop and want easy access to the exit. Plus when they do leave the bus, it causes less inconvenience to their bus companion if said companion were to sit in the window seat.
Point 3 is a little different. These are usually the seat-hogs, people who for some reason think that their little knapsack deserves a seat more than someone who actually pays money for the ride. Naturally I fight against this injustice in the most subtle of ways: I intentionally sit next to these people, making them carry their small bags on their lap (haha sucked in).
I invite others who see similar offences to put these people in their place. Claim that which is rightfully yours! No longer will these selfish passengers inconvenience and force others to stand in a moving bus!
This also extends to those who don't give up their seats in favour of less mobile passengers.
To refactor or not to refactor..
That is the question.
Finding the right balance between refactoring existing code and delivering business requirements is never easy. This is especially true when you keep finding code that should be refactored. I'm not one to complain (aw who am I kidding ahha) but I don't like having to live with code that's not readable and hence hard to maintain. But how can one spend enough time refactoring code when there are so many other business requirements to deliver at the same time. It becomes a question of 'how much pain will this cost us' and 'how much benefit can we get out of refactoring this' *sigh*.
I don't like taking the easy way out all the time at the expense of sacrificing code quality. Sure, the app might work now, but when (and it's really just a matter of time) bugs are found, oh woe is me if I ever have to investigate and fix them. If I need to spend hours looking at code just to understand what's going on, I get stressed and annoyed.
It hurts.
It really does.
