fun with JavaScript arrays and string handling

The support requests status tracker script used to hang at around 300 total requests modified (or once around a hundred requests moved off the board.) Today, it processed "525 updated and 483 moved off this view for a total of 1008 requests changed" in an instant.

The changes I made to the code have worked out much better than I ever planned :-) Of course, the real problem was that earlier versions of the code were complete and utter crap. See, I made a couple of ( embarrassing rookie mistakes with arrays and string handling )

Note: pseudocode is because I'm too lazy to remember how I actually coded it in old versions. Real code is because I'm too lazy to figure out how to convert my current code to pseudocode.

Wii Sunday

I just spent the past six hours playing on the Wii. Cousins brought one over to my grandfather's condominium for us all to play with. I did take several short breaks to let others play as well, and we stopped entirely for dinner, but the bulk of the six hours was mine :-)

Made a Mii, a cute little avatar with oversized glasses, freckles, and a smile. She's cute, and keeps the smile on her face even when she's being beaten up in boxing. I like her!

It was a good distraction. At one point, we managed to convince my parents to pick up the remote and shoot cans/missiles/barrels with hearts; my grandfather went fishing and car racing.

Started out playing Wii Sports (rock at boxing, so-so at baseball and golf, meh at bowling, and suck at tennis; "fitness age" = 63), and then we moved on to Cars, Wii Play, and Warioware. Spent the most time on Warioware, and my cousin and I ended up bouncing all over the living area and dancing in time to the cute disco puppies. (I admit it WE ARE DORKS. But there's no video to embarrass us, so :P)

I actually heard my grandfather laugh at our antics! He's been very serious since the accident. I don't think he's laughed lately; I know he's hated even the sound of laughter from anyone else. But we made him laugh today; we all laughed; I'm really glad for that.

I wish my shoti had been there. He'd have beaten us all easily, but I miss even that.