I left work today around 11pm. That was a long day. The programmers were helping out other team members who needed assistance. The producer appreciated our efforts, enough so that he's taking us code-writing people out for beers tomorrow. If you're near the Frog and Firkin tomorrow, look for us at around 7pm.

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As some of you might know, I tested video games for two years at EA. I found and wrote up a lot of bugs in my time there. I think I may have written up a couple hundred bugs across four titles. Most of those bugs were eventually assigned to a software engineer to get fixed. I always wondered who got my bugs and how they went about fixing them. Despite the numerous bugs I found, I never was the one to fix the bug. I could describe what happened and even theorize the cause, but I was never in the position to do the actual work that eliminated the bug.

Today, I got my first bug assigned to me as a software engineer. It wasn't a particularly interesting defect in the game but it was a personal milestone. I've come full circle in a way. The other side of the coin. The other end of the take-out window. It's a nice feeling, though now, I gotta go figure out how to fix these damn bugs that keep getting assigned to me.

In other news, probably the only academic paper I'll ever have my name on gets presented today in Italy at the International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces (ICMI) at a poster session. One of the co-authors of our paper, Jen, will be at said session. I hope she represents us well and that she dazzles everyone with our work. Hopefully in a few weeks, our paper will be archived the ACM Digital Library.

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According to this report, Vancouver is once again, the best city on the planet to live in. The report lists some criteria from which they concluded this, but I was too tired to read it. I think I'll just trust them on that.

At the bottom of the list was Port Moresby. Ouch.

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It was a pretty uneventful day so I'm afraid I don't have a lot to say. I had diced chicken with cashew nuts for lunch. Dinner consisted of sushi. By the way, never let the delivery guy leave you without chopsticks or soy sauce if you order sashimi. Have you ever tried sashimi without soy? It tastes like raw fish!

The evening finished up with a few drinks with the boys at Earl's. Now I am home.

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As some of you know, I've been working on a single game since the middle of June. I haven't said much about it since they make you sign all these non-disclosure agreements when you get hired. Several weeks ago, we were told that the game would be announced to the public in Barcelona the second weekend in October. That would make it next weekend. I was really looking forward to that since I could then finally tell everyone what I was working on and point them towards a web site or other promotional material. That kinda all changed Friday at 5pm.

The entire game team was herded into the lounge for a meeting. This was weird since we usually don't have team meetings near the end of the week, especially so late on a Friday. There were some really important company big-wigs at the meeting too.

I cannot divulge exactly what was said at the meeting except to say there were some suprising news. What I can say is that I'll be working on the game a few more months than I had anticipated. Last but not least, there is also tiny, teensy small chance I'll be moving to Prince Edward Island for a few months... sometime in late winter or early spring... maybe... we'll see.

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