Second Trial Attempt

My earlier attempt at conversion of the legacy application was unsuccessful. I did manage to complete the conversion but the results were unsatisfactory. I'm set up to try again this weekend. Perhaps this time around it will be speedier and more successful. We'll just have to give it a try and see.

Broke The Logjam

Well I've been away from working on that conversion, in fact no work on the site got done at all. Bewilderment while working on a unpleasant and unwanted task has a way of discouraging any attempts at finding solutions. In spite of this I finally managed to break through on an earlier problem. One problem solved inevitably leads to yet another one. The earlier problem had to do with a function call to close a database connection that when invoked would crash the process that called it. There is nothing like seeing the words

child pid 79089 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)

in a log file. Tracing the root cause is tedious and bound to mislead at times. I'm at another roadblock, but this one is minor, and I should be able to either solve it or circumvent it without too much hassle ... I hope. Well right now it's time to catch some shut eye.

Backyard Weekend Visitor

An orange and white cat occasionally visits our backyard. I suspect she's hunting for food. She certainly doesn't look like a house cat or like some one's pet. The few times that we've seen her in the backyard she certainly hasn't behaved like a pet. This past weekend we came visiting once again, and we caught a photo with telephoto of her against the far hedge on the back edge of the yard.



She looks like she knows we are watching her. Perhaps she will visit again.