Here's an interesting tidbit. This article illustrates what happens when management does not understand critical technology they are using (and selling): Reuters loses right to use crucial IM technology The short story is Rueter's did not pay a $150K bill on time, and the licensor would not extend the purchase terms past the deadline. So now Reuters has to renegotiate a new contract after paying almost $2M. Using 3rd party code is a heavy responsibility.

A couple of pictures of my daughter. She placed 3rd in one of the hunter events. Sorry about the photo quality. I had to use my cell phone.

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Paul Farrell hits the nail on the head!

Twenty some odd years ago, I was sitting on the shore of Blue Lake (Vermillion Bay, Ontario), reading a Winnipeg newspaper.  An op-ed piece from a conservative MP shocked me. He sounded more liberal than the left wing elements of the Democratic Party in 1984!

America is now in the same place. There are no conservatives or liberals, Democrats or Republicans (or moral leaders of either persuasion) inside the Beltway. There is only greed, lobbyists and politicians running for re-election. Forty two thousand lobbyists run this country. Wallstreet suits are unloading debt on to the tax payer's back as fast as the treasury can print. And we, the tax payers, continue to borrow like there is no tomorrow.

Since I am not doing any WinROTT work for a couple of weeks, I thought I would post some pictures of my afternoon wanderings. Here's a few photos I snapped with my cell phone camera this week..

I am slowly moving my blogger.com postings over to my wiki. You can check the rss for new wiki postings.

I managed to complete the port of rt_actor.c to rt_actor.cpp. There are some source code changes, and a lot of changes to header files so both C and C++ files will compile and link properly. The source code may be downloaded from my WinROTT page. Please let me know if you have any problems.

I will be taking a break from WinROTT for a couple of weeks to enjoy the summer with my children. I will be updating some porting notes in my wiki. I have some notes regarding function and enum declarations a developer needs to watch out for when porting from C to C++. Please have fun playing WinROTT! Enjoy the summer.