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Just ran my first Scala app!

And tomorrow's company party has been called on account of rain, so I don't even have that to look forward to. Looks like a fab weekend.
@mattgemmell I blame Lauren for an end of the day check in just before I was ready to commit my changes.
I'll probably just spend the next hour outside getting wet from the rain. It's very uncomfortable in here.
Lame. I left work late missing the train and the next one has been canceled. The waiting area is filled with loud, drunk teenagers.
@mattgemmell I'm surprised you didn't rick roll the mention of your blog. No one would have suspected that.
@mattgemmell I agree. The big problem with Dark Knight was that it was three movies crammed into the time of two.
Sorry, Google, not even the supposed awesomeness of Chrome will get me to fire up my Windows PC.
Ack. Spent three hours trying to figure out correct font sizes, and still not quite right. I cannot express how much I hate GUI programming.
@lazerdye You're opinions of Google products would be skewed now, would they....
I'm not so sure now why I thought I needed a concurrent NSOperation. Nonconcurrent seems to work just fine and is so much simpler to code.
Apparently threads work better when you don't release *AND* autorelease them at the same time. Ugh. I feel so stupid now.
I wondered if the bank saying they were mailing my ATM card to my old address was a security check or just incompetence, but I have a guess.
At what point should I set isExecuting/isFinished on an NSOperation? Looks like my thread was released while I was still in the run loop!
Argh! Trying to track down a memory allocation issue. Of course it wasn't where I expected it to be, so lots of wasted time troubleshooting.
It's hard to believe that this weekend marks two years since I moved to Scotland. Where did all the time go?
Finally stumbled out of the flat at 4:30. Too much paella last night makes it hard to move today.
JSON parser is now pretty much done. Time to call some web services!
I really had my heart set on parsing data into structured domain objects, but NSDictionary pretty-printing an entire tree is pretty awesome.
It's amazing what you can get done in about 350 lines of to-the-metal Core Foundation library code.